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The Kaaba is a cuboid-shaped structure made of stones. It is approximately 15 m (49 ft 3 in) high with sides measuring 12 m (39 ft 4 in) × 10.5 m (34 ft 5 in) wide [89] (Hawting states 10 m (32 ft 10 in). [90] Inside the Kaaba, the floor is made of marble and limestone. The interior walls are clad with tiled, white marble halfway to the roof ...
God was said to have thwarted their wicked scheme, sending flocks of birds to rain down stones upon them, reducing them to "straw eaten up". Muslim scholars concur that the "People of the Elephant" were Abraha's troops who assaulted the Kaaba. Abraha had a troop of about 13 war elephants in the expeditionary forces. [19]
1-3 The judgment of God will infallibly come; 4-10 ʿĀd, Thamud, and Pharaoh destroyed for rejecting their prophets; 11-16 As the flood came, so shall the judgment certainly come; 17 On the Judgment Day God's throne shall be borne by eight mighty angels; 18-29 The good and bad shall receive their account-books and be judged according to their ...
Dhul-Suwayqatayn (Arabic: ذو السويقتين, lit. 'the man with two thin legs', [1] Amharic: ዱል-ሱወይቃታይን) is a figure mentioned in the hadith of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, [1] according to which a group of Abyssinian men are destined to permanently destroy the Ka‘aba at the end of times and remove its treasure.
In 2 Samuel 24:15-16, the destroying angel almost destroyed Jerusalem, but was recalled by God. In 1 Chronicles 21:15, the same "Angel of the Lord" is seen by David to stand "between the earth and the heaven, with a drawn sword in his hand stretched out against the Hebrews' enemies". Later, in 2 Kings 19:35, the angel kills 185,000 Assyrian ...
The angel was absent when Adam ate the forbidden fruit and was punished by being turned into a jewel – the Black Stone. God granted it the power of speech and placed it at the top of Abu Qubays, a mountain in the historic region of Khurasan, before moving the mountain to Mecca. When Ibrahim took the Black Stone from Abu Qubays to build the ...
After Abraham had built the Kaaba, an angel is said to have brought him the Black Stone, a celestial stone that, according to tradition, had fallen from Heaven on the nearby hill Abu Qubays. The Black Stone is believed by Islamic scholars to be the only remnant of the original structure made by Abraham.
God sends an angel to put a soul into the body, and the angel writes down the decree that God has made; their life-spans, their actions, their sustenances (how much they will earn throughout their lifetime) and whether they will be dwellers of paradise or a dweller of hell.