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The number 4 is a very important number in Islam with many significations: Eid-al-Adha lasts for four days from the 10th to the 14th of Dhul Hijja; there were four Caliphs; there were four Archangels; there are four months in which war is not permitted in Islam; when a woman's husband dies she is to wait for four months and ten days; the Rub el ...
The Dome of al-Khidr (Arabic: قبة الخضر, romanized: Qubbat al-Khidr) or the Dome of St. George [1] [2] is a small domed-building located in the southwest corner of the Temple Mount (Haram ash-Sharif), in the Old City of Jerusalem.
A ṣaḥn (Arabic: صحن) is the formal courtyard found in almost every mosque in Islamic architecture. The courtyards are open to the sky and surrounded on all sides by structures with halls and rooms, and often a shaded semi-open arcade riwaq. A mosque courtyard is used for performing ablutions and as a patio for rest or gathering.
116-141 The Jews denounced and the religion of Abraham declared to be the true Islam; 142-153 The adoption of Mecca as the Qibla of Islam rather than the initial Qibla at Al-Aqsa mosque; 154-163 The Bereaved friends of those slain at the Battle of Badr comforted; 164-172 Makkans exhorted to faith in God, and directed to observe the law ...
The Lal Masjid (Urdu: لال مسجد; transl. Red Mosque) is a congregational mosque located in Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan. It is located near Abpara Market. It was constructed in 1966 and is one of the oldest mosques in the city. It was also the largest mosque in the city for twenty years, until the Faisal Mosque was built in 1986.
The front wall has a Mehrab. [2] The beauty of this building is its outer look. Two minarets have been erected which are about two hundred meters high. Red marble has been used for their construction. In between them are three domes constructed with white marble. The aerial view of the Masjid is very much glorious and elegant.
Farhad Khan's Shahi Eidgah in Sylhet, Bangladesh Shahi Eid Gah Mosque, Multan, Pakistan. Eidgah or Idgah, also Eid Gah or Id Gah (Persian: عیدگاه "site of Eid [observances]"; Bengali: ঈদগাহ; Punjabi: عید گاہ; Urdu: عید گاہ; Hindi: ईदगाह) is a term used in South Asian Islamic culture for the open-air enclosure usually outside the city (or at the outskirts ...
'going about') is one of the Islamic rituals of pilgrimage and is compulsory during both the Hajj and Umrah. Pilgrims go around the Kaaba (the most sacred site in Islam) seven times in a counterclockwise direction; the first three at a hurried pace on the outer part of the Mataaf and the latter four times closer to the Kaaba at a leisurely pace ...