Abdal Hakim Murad – The Kaba
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Well, the Kaaba is, of course, veiled and it's non
representational, and it's mysterious. Everybody has a sense
of the mysterium tremendum the immense Jalali mystery of the
Divine when approaching the Kaaba, and as I said, you have the
enormous crowds circling it towards the maximal
differentiation of human beings. And then you have the complete
unicity of that symbol of that which lies beneath them better
than that and more and which is ultimately a representation as
even the least educated hajis know of the unknowable eternity, the
immutability of the Divine. So as a symbol, which of course, like
all Greek symbols, has a kind of alchemical effect on those who
experience it. It's absolutely perfect. It's the perfect
representation of what monotheism is about