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The Black Stone (Arabic: ٱلْحَجَرُ ٱلْأَسْوَد, romanized: al-Ḥajar al-Aswad) is a rock set into the eastern corner of the Kaaba, the ancient building in the center of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. It is revered by Muslims as an Islamic relic which, according to Muslim tradition, dates back to the time of Adam and ...
9 wrz 2016 · It has been described variously as basalt stone, an agate, a piece of natural glass or — most popularly — a stony meteorite.
Secular historians point to the history of meteorite worship, in pre-islamic Arabia, and say it is likely that the stone is a meteorite or possibly impact glass, from the meteorite impact crater at Wabar, about 1100 km from Mecca.
24 sie 2024 · The Hacerü’l-Esved Stone, often referred to as the Black Stone, is a revered object in Islamic tradition. It is embedded in the eastern corner of the Kaaba, the most sacred structure in Islam, located in the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
According to the Holy Prophet (sa), the black stone in the Ka’aba is one of the remnants of the stones that were showered from ‘heaven’. The ‘stones’ that came from ‘heaven’ (which we now understand were probably part of a meteor-showered in that area under the command of God) were used to build the very first house of worship of God.
30 wrz 2018 · This weekend, history experts across London are attempting to solve the astronomical mystery surrounding an ancient carved “meteorite” found in Mesopotamia (today’s Iraq) by a 19th century English explorer.
24 wrz 2016 · In the verse of Soorat al-Mulk mentioned, nujoom (heavenly bodies) are divided into two types: those that are lamps which illuminate the heavens, which are the light-emitting stars, and those that move – this includes luminous meteors (shihaab), meteors (nayzak), planets (kawkab) and others.
