Alhamdulillah..
Selamat dah menjawab paper MEV390 Automotive electrical system semalam. Boleh jawab juga la walaupun soalan sangat berlainan dengan semester-semester yang lepas. Banyak pulak tu yang kene hafal. Tapi masih ada 5 paper lagi paper yang menanti minggu seterusnya. Tapi yang paling hampir paper Body & Chassis Selasa ini. Nota agak tebal juga la untuk dibaca. Tapi takpe “Chill Bro”.
Dalam kesibukan exam final ni sempat juga mencuri masa untuk update blog. Tengah boring stadi apa kata buat benda lain kan? Entri kali ini saya akan berkongsi sedikit maklumat mengenai Kaabah. Terima kasih kepada kawan saya Zack (member SMKAJB dulu) atas email yang telah di forward kepada saya. Sebenarnya dah lama tersimpan dalam inbox ni. Tapi bagi menyebarkan informasi ini saya rasa lebih baik di publish di blog untuk tatapan semua. Semoga memberi manfaat kepada kita semua!
Kaabah: Physical Attributes
The Kaaba is a large masonry structure roughly the shape of a cube. It is made of granite from the hills near Mecca, and stands upon a 25 cm (10 in) marble base, which projects outwards about 35 cm (14 in). It is approximately 13.1 m (43 ft) high, with sides measuring 11.03 m (36.2 ft) by 12.86 m (42.2 ft). The four corners of the Kaaba roughly face the four cardinal directions of the compass. In the eastern corner of the Kaaba is the Ruknu l-Aswad "the Black Corner"" or al-Ħajaru l-Aswad "the Black Stone", possibly a meteorite remnant; at the northern corner is the Ruknu l-ˤĪrāqī "the Iraqi corner". The western corner is the Ruknu sh-Shāmī "the Levantine corner" and the southern is Ruknu l-Yamanī "the Yemeni corner".
Hajarul AswadThe Kaaba is covered by a black silk and gold curtain known as the kiswah, which is replaced yearly. About two-thirds of the way up runs a band of gold-embroidered calligraphy with Qur'anic text, including the Islamic declaration of faith, the Shahada. Special factory designed for the making of Kiswa in Makkah. It costs approx. SR 17million.The cloth is made of 670kgs of silver dyed black, about 120kgs of pure gold & 50kgs of silver used in writing the Qur'anic verses over the cloth. The total area of the cloth is 658sqr meter.
Production process
In modern times, entry to the Kaaba's interior is generally not permitted except for certain rare occasions and for a limited number of guests. The entrance is a door set 2 m (7 ft) above the ground on the north-eastern wall of the Kaaba, which acts as the façade. There is a wooden staircase on wheels, usually stored in the mosque between the arch-shaped gate of Banū Shaybah and the well of Zamzam. Inside the Kaaba, there is a marble and limestone floor. The interior walls are clad with marble halfway to the roof; tablets with Qur'anic inscriptions are inset in the marble. The top part of the walls are covered with a green cloth decorated with gold embroidered verses. Qur'anic Caretakers perfume the marble cladding with scented oil, the same oil used to anoint the Black Stone outside.
inside KaabahThere is also a semi-circular wall opposite, but unconnected to, the north-west wall of the Kaaba known as the hatīm. This is 90 cm (35 in) in height and 1.5 m (4.9 ft) in width, and is composed of white marble. At one time the space lying between thehatīm and the Kaaba belonged to the Kaaba itself, and for this reason it is not entered during the tawaf (ritual circumambulation). Some believe that the graves of Abu Simbel, prophet Ishmael and his mother Hagar are located in this space.
Muslims throughout the world face the Kaaba during prayers, which occur five times a day. For most places around the world, coordinates for Mecca suffice. Worshippers in the Sacred Mosque pray in concentric circles around the Kaaba.
