We shall talk about the economic life of Mecca in a coming chapter.

We shall talk about the economic life of Mecca in a coming chapter. Mecca is the most beloved place to the Prophet Mecca was the most beloved country to the Prophet (a.s.). In the year of the Conquest (of Mecca), he stopped when throwing the stones during the ritual of the hajj and said, “By Allah, you (Mecca) are the best of Allah’s land, and you are the most beloved of Allah’s land to me. If I was not forced to go out (of Mecca), I would not go out.

It was not violable to anyone before me, and it shall not be violable to anyone after me. It was not violable to me except for a short time of a day, and then it is inviolable.

Its trees should not be cut (during the Ihram in the hajj), its grass should not be mowed, and its lost things should not be picked except by their seeking owners.” Some man said, “O messenger of Allah, except al-Ithkhir because it is for our houses and our graves.” The Prophet (a.s.) said, “Except al-Ithkhir.” Then he said, “Whoever is patient with the hot of Mecca for an hour the Hell will be far from him for a distance of [1] The Encyclopedia of the Twentieth Century, second edition, vol. 9 p.

327.(travel of) one hundred years, and the Paradise will be near to him for two hundred years.” [1] The Prophet glorifies the Kaaba The Prophet (a.s.) sanctified the Inviolable House (the Kaaba) and glorified it so highly. Once, he was in the mosque. He turned towards the House and said addressing it, “I know that Allah the Almighty has not put a house in the earth more beloved to Him than you, and there is no country in the earth more beloved to me than you.

I had not left you willingly, but those, who were unbelievers, forced me to leave.” [2] The Prophet (a.s.) took great care of the Inviolable House, loved it too much, and made it the most holy place of worship in the earth. The Prophet puts the Rock in its place The tribe of Quraysh rebuilt the Kaaba after it had been destroyed.

Aa’id bin Imran bin Makhzum, who was the Prophet’s (maternal) uncle, advanced and said to Quraysh, ‘O people of Quraysh, do not put (spend) in building it from your gains except good (well-gotten property). Let no dowry of a prostitute, money of usury, or an oppression against any one of people be included in it (the Kaaba).’ The clans of Quraysh began building the House. When they reached to the place of the Black Rock, the clans disagreed on putting it in its place.

Each clan wanted to put it in its place to gain the honor and pride of that.

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