Ka'ba

The Kaaba (أَلكَعْبَة‎ al-kaʿbah), also referred as al-Kaʿbah al-Musharrafah (Arabic: أَلكَعْبَة أَلمُشَرَّفَة‎, the Holy Ka'bah), is a building at the center of Islam's most important mosque, Al-Masjid Al-Ḥarām (Arabic: أَلمَسْجِد أَلحَرَام‎, The Sacred Mosque), in the Hejazi city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia. It is the most sacred site in Islam. It is considered by Muslims to be the Bayt Allāh (Arabic: بَيْت الله‎, "House of God").

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Do the Shia accept this Hadith from Bukhari, "‘O ‘Aisha! Had not your people been still close to the pre-Islamic period of ignorance I would have dismantled the Ka’ba and would have made two doors in it; one for entrance and the other for exit.”? Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi	Do birds avoid flying over the Kaaba? And can airplanes fly over the Kaaba, even if permitted? Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi
Who erected the initial Kaaba? And what is the reason behind circling it seven times? Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi	God has promised in Quran 3:97 that anyone who comes to the Kaba will be safe. Why then, during this crisis, has the Muslim world shut it down? Shouldn't Muslims be visiting it even more based on promise in this verse? Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi