Mohammed And Mohammedanism Lectures Delivered At the Royal Institution of Great
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The first architectural requisite of every Musalman house of prayer is the niche or arch which points with mathematical pre- the Kaaba, illustrating the strong family feelings of the Prophet. Sprenger, I. Iv. 315. » Sura VII. 27 sq. Cf. XXII. 27-40, and Mishkat-ul-Masibeh, I. Book XL 619. 2 A plan of the Kaaba, as taken by Ali Bey, and a full description of the Pilgrim ceremonies, which he himself went through, may be seen in Burton's 'Pilgrimage, ' III. 61. Burckhardt and Burton have both desc...ribed the Black Stone minutely from personal observation ; and a picture of it, the size of the original, is given in Muir, II. 18. THE KAABA AND ITS HISTORY. 169 cislon to the sacred pile; and, guided by this, every devout Musalman turns five times a day towards the Kiblah of the world, in earnest prayer to God. * That man, ' says Dr. Johnson, ' has little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force on the plains of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warm among the ruins of lona. ' The ceremonies of the Kaaba may perhaps seem to us ridiculous, but the shrine is one which kindled the feelings of the Arab patriot, and roused the hopes of the Bedouin of the desert, ages before Miltiades fought, and tens of ages before Columba preached.
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