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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books The Life of Muhammad Mecca the Honored Town It may be useful to talk in brief about Mecca because it was the country where (a.s.) was born and brought up, and where he announced his immortal mission in which but a group of slaves and weak people there believed whereas the chiefs and wealthy people resisted and fought with all weapons.

The talk about the Prophet (a.s.) and the study of his life require us to talk about Mecca and the cultural, ideological, and economic life of its people for I think it is from the requirements of the study on the Prophet (a.s.). Other names of Mecca For its importance to people, Mecca was named with some other names such as: 1. Ummol Qura (mother of villages) Allah the Almighty has called it so in the Holy Qur'an when saying, ( that you may warn the Mother of Villages and those around her) .

[1] It has been called so because it was the most important city. [2] In another place in the Qur'an, Allah has said, (And thus have We revealed to you an Arabic Qur’an, that you may warn the Mother of Villages and those around it) . [3] [1] Qur'an, 6:92. [2] The Encyclopedia of the Sacred Places; Mecca, vol. 1 p.11. [3] Qur'an, 42:7. 2.

Al-Balad al-Ameen (the safe country) It has been called so in the Holy Qur'an that Allah says, (I swear by the fig and the olive, and Mount Sinai, and this land of security) . [1] 3. Becca It was called so because it exhausted the arrogants if they disbelieved in it unjustly. [2] Allah says in the Qur'an, (Most surely the first house appointed for men is the one at Becca, blessed and a guidance for the nations) . [3] 4.

The Inviolable House Mecca has been honored and called “the Inviolable House” that Allah made a Qibla for all people. It is narrated that this House (the Kaaba) had been built before Adam (a.s.). Abul Waleed al-Azraqi narrated a tradition from Imam Zaynol Aabidin (a.s.) that he said, “Allah the Almighty has sent his angels and said: Build Me a building in the earth like the House (in the Heaven) in form and size.

Allah has ordered all those in the earth from His creatures to circumambulate it as the inhabitants of the Heavens circumambulate the much-frequented House (in the Heaven), and this was before the creation of Adam.” [4] The one who built this house (the Kaaba) and made it a center for worshipping Allah was Prophet Abraham (a.s.) and his son Prophet Ishmael (a.s.).