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I just had a pleasant dream where I was siting on a roof garden in .Jerusalem eating an apple, and watching these what-must-have-been gigantic cotton sheets tossed over the top of the Qaaba from the unseen inside, allowed to fall half-way down, swooshed around, and pulled in. It would then happen further along the cube.
Now you know the proximate cause for this posting. Or is it the ultimate?
I imagine teleporting the Qaaba from Mecca to Jerusalem knocked off most of the dust and dirt.
It’s granite/polished marble, isn’t it? I’m not sure I understand the question. How do they keep polished granite spiffy? As in do they use special cleaners, specially ordained cleaners, or something culturally significant?
Now that you mention it, any info on the religious aspects would be interesting. In Judaism, only Levites were allowed to take care of Temple operations. Which now means that the bread guys and the blue-jean guys get the designated #2 spot when the Torah is read aloud, those lucky bastards. And I did wonder that during the dream. Thanks, Doc!
But broadly I just want to know if, how (personnel, apparatus, cleansing material), and when it is cleaned/polished.
For years I, and no doubt millions of others, have thought now and again how the Western/(used-to-be Wailing) Wall could have all those little notes tucked into it for so long. The query is like that.
It is possible that the OP is confusing Jerusalem with Mecca.
Another possibility is that the OP is confusing the Qaaba with the Dome of the Rock. And actually, I think this is more likely, because the Dome is shiny gold, while the Qaaba is covered with a cloth.
Hmmm. Re-reading the OP, I see that you did mention the sheets on the Qaaba. But how do you know that it is shiny? Maybe it’s not!
In fact, here’s the Wikipedia article on the Kiswah, the cloth that covers the Qaaba.
By the way, this article mentions cleaning the inside of the Qaaba, “As part of the annual pilgrimage rituals, the interior of the Ka’ba is washed by the king - who is considered a servant of the holy place - or his representatives for the occasion. They perform a ceremony of washing the floor with rosewater.”
Wikipedia is your friend:
It’s Ka‘bah. K not Q, please.
It’s cleaned by blind fairies, who otherwise would be struck dead by seeing such a holy object. They live on cookies which is why we leave them out at christmas. Now, you may ask, how do they know what direction the stone is if they’re blind? They’re qibla elves.
:: runs screaming from thread ::
the lower exterior of the kaaba is kept shiny by thousands of pilgrims brushing against it as they travel round it