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Kiswa was put on the Kaaba

MAKKAH: another Kiswa was put on the Kaaba at an opportune time Sunday as pioneers assembled in Arafat for the peak of the Haj. The Kiswa which is the dark weaved fabric is typically set on the Kaaba on Arafat day.

The Kiswa is made at an uncommon processing plant with more than 100 specialists required in coloring, electric weaving, printing, weaving and afterward gathering the diverse parts of the Kiswa.

The 14-meter-long Kiswa is weaved with 120kg of gold and 25kg of silver strings.

The processing plant utilizes a best in class weaving machine with the ability to doing 1,000 join for each moment.

Amid the Prophet Muhammad's opportunity, the Kiswa was made of material from Yemen and it was changed and recharged twice every year - before Ramadan and after that amid Haj. Later amid the rule of the Caliphs, giving the Kiswa was formally attempted as a component of state or "legislative" commitment. Around then, Egypt whose individuals were celebrated for their mind boggling weaving of complex outlines in a wide range of materials ended up plainly in charge of providing the Kiswa. Amid the Ottoman Empire, incredible care was taken in choosing the best weaves and weavers in Tinees, an Egyptian city celebrated for its office and magnificence in outline. Back then, the Kiswa was made of dark silk on which were different complex outlines and weaving. The Kiswa has stayed dark from that point forward and it is as yet dark today. In the most punctual days, the Kiswa was never expelled from the Kaaba' the new one was essentially hung over the old. In the year 160 H, Al-Mahdi Al-Abbasi requested that the Kiswa be restricted to a solitary layer because of fears that after some time the fabric may really harm the Kaaba. From that time, the Kiswa was constantly one layer with utilized ones being presented as endowments in deliberately cut and confined squares. When King Abdulaziz entered Makkah in 1924, he acknowledged full and aggregate obligation regarding the Kaaba which included giving the Kiswa.

On July 1, 1927, King Abdulaziz requested the development of an exceptional industrial facility to be solely dedicated to the make of the Kiswa in Ajyad area in Makkah.

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