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In Islamic terminology, Hajj is a pilgrimage made to the Kaaba, the "House of Allah," in the sacred city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia. It is one of the Five Pillars of Islam, alongside Shahadah (oath that one believes there is no god but Allah (God)), [ 6] salat (prayer), zakat (almsgiving), and sawm (fasting during Ramadan).
The Kaaba, [ b] sometimes referred to as al-Ka'ba al-Musharrafa, [ d] is a stone building at the center of Islam 's most important mosque and holiest site, the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. [ 2][ 3][ 4] It is considered by Muslims to be the Bayt Allah (Arabic: بَيْت ٱللَّٰه, lit.
A popular myth claims that the symbols were designed to indicate their numeric value through the number of angles they contained, but there is no contemporary evidence of this, and the myth is difficult to reconcile with any digits past 4. [12] Etching from 1503 (or earlier) showing usage of Arabic numerals.
The Prophet's Mosque ( Arabic: ٱلْمَسْجِد ٱلنَّبَوِي, romanized : al-Masjid an-Nabawī, lit. 'Mosque of the Prophet') is the second mosque built by the Islamic prophet Muhammad in Medina, after that of Quba, as well as the second largest mosque and holiest site in Islam, after the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca, in the Saudi ...
السعودية. Saudi Arabia, [ e] officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ( KSA ), [ f] is a country in West Asia and the Middle East. It covers the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula and has a land area of about 2,150,000 km 2 (830,000 sq mi), making it the fifth-largest country in Asia and the largest in the Middle East.
Islamic calendar stamp issued at King Khalid International Airport on 10 Rajab 1428 AH (24 July 2007 CE). The Hijri calendar (Arabic: ٱلتَّقْوِيم ٱلْهِجْرِيّ, romanized: al-taqwīm al-hijrī), or Arabic calendar also known in English as the Muslim calendar and Islamic calendar, is a lunar calendar consisting of 12 lunar months in a year of 354 or 355 days.
Tablighi Jamaat (Urdu: تبلیغی جماعت lit. ' Society of Preachers ', [5] [6] also translated as "propagation party" or "preaching party") [2] [3] [4] is an international Islamic religious movement [2] [3] focuses on exhorting Muslims to be more religiously observant [1] and encouraging fellow members to return to practising their religion as per the Islamic prophet Muhammad, [7] and ...
The Quraysh ( Arabic: قُرَيْشٌ) was an Arab tribe that inhabited and controlled Mecca and its Kaaba. Comprising 10 main clans, it included the Hashim clan, into which the Islamic prophet Muhammad was born. By 600 CE, the Quraysh had become wealthy merchants, dominating trade between the Indian Ocean, East Africa, and the Mediterranean. [ 1]