Over time as monotheism lost out to pagan polytheism its original purpose was lost and people use it as a shrine and copy the form of that shrine elsewhere.įor any Muslim narrative, one of the things that Muhammad does as a prophet is to kick Arabia back onto the monotheism from which it had fallen away (into ignorance, jahiliyyah). Our cube, the cube, is believed to be the site where way back in the day Ibrahim (Abraham, if you want) built a house of worship to God. A lot of them also housed or had embedded into them meteorites, because something falling from the sky is pretty easy to worship. These served as public shrines and housed idols of the pagan gods of that city. So many pre-Islamic Arabian cities, including Mecca, had a cube. It is very holy (you are meant to be visualising it as a sort of aiming point every time you pray) but it isn’t secret, and a lot of people assume it is inherently mysterious. Oh man I love talking about our cube! The cube is called the Kaaba, which means ‘the cube’.
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