In Mecca, Saudi Arabia, every time the Islamic Hajj season, there will be thousands of believers rushed to this "black house" for worship, the scene is incomparable shock, then the mysterious "black house" inside what exactly?
In the city of Mecca, there is a black cube placed in the middle of the square, which is called "black house" by many people, but its real name is the heavenly house, because the Muslim believers believe that this house is a dwelling place of Allah in the world, and is the house of the heavenly god, so they gave it such a name.
The house itself is actually made of stone, but its exterior is wrapped in a black dust cover woven with silk, so the whole body is mainly presented to the outside world is black. In the periphery of the sky room there are many golden decorations and Quranic verses, and these parts are hand-embroidered from gold silk stitch by stitch, the energy and money required is incalculable, after all, the gold silk needed for the scriptures alone weighs 500 kilograms.
It is because of the sanctity of the celestial room that many Muslim believers come to visit it, but not everyone can enter the interior of the celestial room to visit it. Only the Saudi King and his invited Islamic leaders from all over the country are allowed to enter the celestial room at the time of the annual Hajj. And their Hajj is also very special, it is the king who leads others to clean the sanitation of the celestial room, and then this Hajj can be completed.
According to the information, the interior of the celestial room is actually not luxurious, only the ceiling hanging a lot of lamps, the ground is not much ornaments at all, only a few pillars and a small table, and because Islam does not allow any idol worship, so in the interior of the celestial room also does not have any idols and paintings, to highlight the religious significance of the celestial room.
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The existence of the heavenly room has made Mecca a place of desire for all followers of Islam, so where did it come from? Why do the followers of Islam make such a pilgrimage to it?
First of all, we have to start with the city of Mecca, which has a very high status as a commercial center in the very early period, and is the main place of trading for Saudi tribes and merchants of various industries, many livestock, gold and other goods are circulated here, and countless valuable wealth is accumulated here, and it is also the place where many famous merchants made their fortune, so Mecca has always been highly sought after.
The founder of Islam, Muhammad, was also born in Mecca, and after Muhammad received the apocalypse, he began to spread the faith of Islam in Mecca, so Mecca also emerged a very large number of followers of Islam, so that the city of Mecca and Islam are tightly bound together.
The celestial room is said to have existed long before the birth of Islam, and it is rumored that it was first created by Abraham of Christianity and was one of the first religious facilities, which also enshrined more than 300 idols and was a place of pilgrimage for Arab polytheists for a long time. But then the house suffered many fires and was completely destroyed, and the tribes were at a standstill over who should repair the house, and finally Muhammad broke the deadlock and persuaded everyone to repair the house.
Later, Islam was established and Muhammad led Islam to defeat the Arabian polytheism. Afterwards, Muhammad led his followers to clean up the polytheistic idols and frescoes in the celestial room and turned it into a sacred place for Islam, and since then it has become a landmark of Mecca and a symbol of Islam.
And according to the requirements of Islam, believers must comply with worship, proof of faith, fasting, zakat, hajj, the five creeds, and hajj means that every believer must come to Mecca once in his lifetime to perform the pilgrimage, the completion of the five creeds of believers will be other believers respected as hajj, so this side also let hundreds of millions of Muslim believers have come to the name.
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The existence of the celestial room is a belief in the heart of every Muslim believer and has a very strong religious significance for Islam, so in addition to this what other benefits does the celestial room bring to Saudi Arabia?
The religious significance of the celestial house needs no introduction, as the number of people who come here every year to perform the hajj is an indication of its importance in the hearts of believers and has shown the whole world the power of Islam. For Saudi Arabia, the annual Hajj season also brings a rapid development of the local economy, because every year millions or tens of millions of Muslim believers come to Mecca in order to fulfill the five creeds, which allows the local tourism, accommodation and catering industry to obtain a very large amount of traffic and considerable income at this time.
For example, the temple in which the Heavenly House is located will need to be cleaned four times a day to ensure the cleanliness and hygiene of the Heavenly House, and each cleaning requires the use of 1,800 employees to clean up, from the ground to the garbage cans will all be cleaned, so that this sacred place is not contaminated in the slightest.
Then there is also a certain social value of the sky room, because the sky room will replace the external golden curtains every year, and the replaced golden curtains are treated as if they were holy relics. The Saudi Arabia will sometimes give the golden curtain to good countries as a sign of friendship, so that the relationship between the two countries can be more harmonious, and another way to deal with the golden curtain is to disassemble it and send the various parts to the Muslim temples or institutions around the world after framing, so as to pass on the religious value of the celestial room, so that the Islamic faith can spread more and more widely.
In short, the celestial house has made a great contribution to the development of Islam, and has also driven the local economy of Mecca, and is rightly called the sacred place of Islam.
