What does the Beit Al-Haram (The Sacred House) mean?

What does the Beit Al-Haram (The Sacred House) mean? Why do we turn around it? Is it the stones it is build of that we consider sacred?

It is not a new from of idolatry that replaces moving stones with fixed ones. It is a rebellion on idolatry. It is a symbolic act that is meant to educate man on a new way of practicing his Islamic movement. How are we to understand that?

We, as Muslims, might build houses for Allah in our cities, towns and neighborhood, even for tribes and sects and nationalities . We try to preserve and maintain in our mosques all the boundaries that separate us, to make us live in our closed and narrow circles.

In contrast, the Kaaba (the Sacred House) is a place of worship for all people regardless of cooler and race.

· It is an international house of Allah, which every Muslim feels that it is house and symbol. That is why Allah has asked us to And from whatsoever place you come forth, turn your face towards the Sacred Mosque; and not to anything else, so that it would act as a basis for our unity internationalism and humanitarianism .

Then we have the turning around the house as a form of worship. What does its suggest? We worship Allah, as individuals in our houses, then as limited groups in our mosques, which might be big or small according to the place and the Imam. But these rituals remain individual acts of worship or within narrow circles, and we do not feel that we are an international nation worshiping Allah in a joint and united manner.

Therefore, turning round the House is an international act of worship where Muslims from all parts of the world worship God, as a nation that joins between the Persian, the Arab, the Indian, the African, the European… etc.

They will thus live a new personality of being joined spiritually in their worshipping of Allah, the most Exalted. They will be getting rid of their misconceptions, since living and worshipping within a small circle, will make the Muslims forget about their being a part of the big nation. On the other hand, the diversity of those worshipping the Sacred House reminds the worshippers of the international character of the nation before God. This is the educational goal of Hajj :to make the international Muslim who is freed from his tribe, region or nationality, and unite him with the other Muslims that are practicing the same ritual of turning round the House.