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The most sacrosanct place in Islam is the Ka'ba in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. The Ka'ba is a mosque (worked by Abraham as indicated by Muslim custom) developed around a dark stone. The prophet Muhammad assigned Mecca as the blessed city of Islam and the course (qibla) in which all Muslims should offer their petitions. The Ka'ba is accepted to be the primary spot that was made on earth and the place at which superb ecstasy and power touches the earth straightforwardly.

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Significance for Muslims?
Notwithstanding supplication, a journey to Mecca is required of each Muslim who can bear the cost of it as one of the Five Pillars of the confidence. Consistently around three million assemble for the real journey, or Hajj, amid the Muslim month of Dhu'l-Hijja, and numerous more play out the minor journey, or Umrah, at different circumstances consistently

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Hardly any non-Muslims have ever observed the rituals and ceremonies of the Hajj, as non-Muslims are entirely disallowed from entering Mecca and Medina. Barricades are positioned along streets prompting the city. The most celebrated episode of a non-Muslim going to Mecca was the visit by the British adventurer Sir Richard Burton in 1853. Burton masked himself as an Afghani Muslim to visit and compose Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al Madinah and Mecca.

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This must be a great place to visit alone :) (I know it will never happen)

Haha , it's just a great place to visit (: the alone part .. we can just forget about it

MashAllah this deserved an upvote !

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