Video: Making the covering of the Holy Kaaba

<p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><strong>Weather of Arabia</strong> - <a href="https://youtu.be/6jRL-mFsXpc"><strong>The Kiswa of the Kaaba</strong></a> is a piece of cloth embroidered with verses from the Holy Qur’an <span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">,</span> with a height of 14 meters <span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">that</span> <span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">covers</span> the Holy <span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Kaaba</span> <span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">.</span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="font-size:13px">The origin of the Kiswa goes back to</span> <span style="font-size:13px">our master</span> <span style="font-size:13px">Ismail</span> , peace <span style="font-size:13px">be</span> upon him <span style="font-size:13px">,</span> followed by the King of Yemen <span style="font-size:13px">,</span> <span style="font-size:13px">“Taba’”, who re-kissed it and</span> <span style="font-size:13px">recommended to his successors to preserve it and</span> <span style="font-size:13px">continue</span> <span style="font-size:13px">to</span> <span style="font-size:13px">clothe</span> <span style="font-size:13px">it after him.</span> <span style="font-size:13px">Until the Abbasids came and clothed the Kaaba with</span> <span style="font-size:13px">green</span> clothes <span style="font-size:13px">, then they changed it to</span> <span style="font-size:13px">another black one, and</span> <span style="font-size:13px">the black color of the kiswa has continued to</span> <span style="font-size:13px">this day.</span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> In our time, a factory specialized in making <strong>the Kaaba Kiswa</strong> was established in 1977, and it manufactures a new Kiswa every year. The Kaaba Kiswa is replaced once a year, during the Hajj season. As for the old Kiswa, it is cut into several pieces that are usually sent to important Islamic personalities.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> Currently, the kiswah is made of black silk and various phrases are engraved on it such as “God is majesty”, “There is no god but God and Muhammad is the Messenger of God”, in addition to various surahs and verses such as Surat Al-Ikhlas. New on the ninth of Dhu al-Hijjah every year.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> The manufacture of one quilting consumes 670 kg of silk, and the cost of one quilting is approximately 17 million Saudi riyals, including the wages of workers, employees and administrators, who number 240 people.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> It is noteworthy that <span style="font-size:13px">the wisdom behind the covering of the Holy <strong>Kaaba</strong> is to glorify the rituals of God Almighty and to thank God for the presence of the Holy Kaaba as a qiblah for Muslims.</span></p>