Kaaba
I’d love to go and see this. Purely for selfish reasons… to take photographs! There’s also something deeply spiritual about it even on the TV. I don’t know if this is because everyone knows it as the Mecca , or the monolith does have some kind of ‘auroa’. Some places do, I know you probably think that is hippy rubbish, but I honestly do! Take a trip to Stonehenge or Holy Island and tell me you don’t ‘feel’ anything in the atmosphere.
Which reminsd me… in this hostile anti-Muslim climate, we in the west are really quite ignorant of what Islam has brought to us. Also we have adopted parts of Islam in our own sicken capitalist way. Mecca Bingo anyone? I have heard that the Black Stone of Kaaba was once a pure white; has it turned black because of the sins it has absorbed over the years?
I went out in Brixton last night, to Jamm. Had a good night, even if some mad woman did stick her hands down my pants, call me a silly white boy then give me a big kiss. I was petrified, she was very scary!!
ahahahaha hahahahahahahaaah!
Being a Muslim, the Ka’ba is a place of significant importance to me and i wholly revere it. and the way i see it might be different to the way other faiths see it – in regard with spirituality and so forth.
But from artistic point of view, i think it is marvellous. and you are right, the stone has indeed turned black as people wiped their hands on it, thus absorbing all their sins.