why is the big black makkah house Black??

Hussain who says muslims have to visit kaaba for 15 days ??? once in life time if you can.

Hi Dear,

Thanks 4 asking about my religion, I think answers were clear but I wanted to add something please:

many non-muslims think that muslims worship the Ka'ba when they pray & prostrate toward it, but it's just a misconception about Islam, because Islam came to freed the Humanity from worshipping any but Allah (God), we only guided by the Holy Quran to face the Ka'ba when we pray, as a symbol of following ancient prophets ( Like Abraham who rebuilt the Ka'ba to worship Allah in it), & in my openion : directing Muslims faces & hearts to one point...is something great. Doesn't sound deep when we see millions facing the point the same time???!!

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hi jo > i hope u r fine :)

i will answer ur question but excuse me for my bad english language

yes it (( big house )) it call kaabah the main place of all muslim peole like me :)

tha colour is black and it is THE ORIGINAL COLOUR and build via (( Ebrahim and Esmaael )) for how want to pray like the our brothers (( christian they pray in the church ))

and in our muslim culture we have vist this (( ka'abah )) at less one time in the life

for 15 days to pray and ....

In the end we are bothers so we can ask and talk better than war because of different culture

hussain from bahrain

good night

THANKS TO ALL OF YOU WHO ANSWER THIS QUETION!!

HELOO THANK YOU FOR THE DETAILS !! I WAS ONLY WONDERING WHY THEY USE BLACK ! BUT I THINK MY QUETION IS FULLY ANSWER!!

I ONCE AGAIN THNK YOU ALL.

IF ANYBODY WANTS TO ADD ANY FUTHER ANSWER IT WILL SURELY BE APRECIATED!

CHEERS

Exactly as brite said and if you looking for religious reason there isn't. Ka'aba was coverd by many colours before.

Hello aslam alikum

i think u ll get the answer now after reading this

The Kaaba is a stone cube covered with a black cloth in the Grand Mosque in Mecca. Muslims believe that it was built by Adam, and then rebuilt by Abraham, and the descendants of Noah.

The Kiswah in the reign of Muhammad (pbuh) Muhammad (pbuh) and the Muslims in Makkah did not participate in the draping of the Kaaba until the conquest of the city at 630 CE (7 AH), as the ruling tribe, Quraish, did not allow them to do so. When Makkah was taken by the Muslims, they decided to leave the Kiswah as it was until a woman lighting incense in the Kaaba accidentally burned the Kiswah. Muhammad(pbuh) then draped it with a white Yemeni cloth.

Kiswah in the reign of the Caliphs Many notable Caliphs have had their share of ruling over the kiswah. For instance, Muawiyah I used to drape the Kaaba twice a year, along with the help of Abd-Allah ibn al-Zubayr, and Abd al-Malik. They brought the traditional silk covering in to effect. Another Caliph is Al-Nasir, the Abbasid Caliph, notable to his contribution on starting the tradition of dressing the Kaaba with one Kiswah at a time, instead of the now out dated "Accumulation Kiswah", the process of putting new kiswahs on the older one. When the Abbasid Caliph performed Hajj in 160 AH, he saw that the accumulated Kiswah could cause damage to the Kaaba itself.

He therefore decreed that only one Kiswah should drape the Kaaba at any one time, and this had been observed ever since. The Caliph Al-Mamoon, draped the Kaaba three times a year, each time with a different color, Red for the eighth Dhu al-Hijjah, White gabati on the first of Rajab, and another Red brocade on the twenty-ninth of Ramadan. Later on, Al-Nasir the Abbaside draped the Kaaba with Green, both AI Nasir and Caliph Al-Mamoon disagreed on the frequent color changes, and decided after that to change the color into black, and black it remains to this day.

Kiswah made by Egypt From the time of the Ayubids, precisely during the regin of the As-Salih Ayyub, the kiswa was being manufactured in Egypt. It was being sent in a huge annual parade before the hajj season. Material for the kiswah was brought from Sudan, India, Egypt and Iraq. The tradition continued until the 1960s where King Abd Al Aziz Bin Saud established the kiswah factory. This decision was influenced by the worsening relations between the Nasser regime of Egypt and the government of Saudi Arabia in addition to the worsening quality of the Egyptian made kiswah.

Kiswah in the Saudi reign King Abd Al Aziz Bin Saud, concerned for the custody of the Two holy Mosques, ordered that a factory for manufacturing the Kiswah and in the same year, the Holy Kabah Kiswah factory was founded, and the first Kiswah was produced.

The House of ALLAH in Makkah. The Kaa'ba is covered by a black cloth known as 'Kiswa', which is produced & changed every year. Special factory designed for the making of Kiswa in Makkah. It costs approx. SR 17 million.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 658 sqr meter.

May allah forgive us and give us Janat-ul-Ferdos Ameen

Regards

The Ka'aba is built of bricks. The cover is called the Kiswah. It is used to cover and protect the Ka'aba. Many colours were used till the Caliph Mamoon decreed that only black should be used. It has been that way since. Nowadays, the Kiswah is made of woven black silk with gold arabic writing..

It is originaly Build out of Brick,

The Black Cover has Islamic Desigens and Souar From the Quran on it which is changed once a year.

If you want more more information try the following link:

http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txh/kaaba.htm

To see some picture go to:

http://entertainment.webshots.com/album/554322859YQLxfX

All the best

THANKS FOR YOUR FASTANSWER!

BUT REALLY IS THIS BLACK COLOUR THE ORIGINAL COLOUR, OR IS IT COVER WITH A BLACK CLOTH?IF YES WHY IS IT COVER AND WHY THE COLOUR BLACK?

I REALLY WANT TO KNOW ! CAN ANY ONE HELP OUT WITH SOME ANSWERS>??PLEASE