{"id":309,"date":"2013-09-27T20:41:56","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T20:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=309"},"modified":"2013-09-27T21:31:14","modified_gmt":"2013-09-27T21:31:14","slug":"kaaba-cover-folded-for-haj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/kaaba-cover-folded-for-haj\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaaba cover folded for Haj (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Kaba.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-316\" alt=\"Kaba\" src=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Kaba-300x180.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Kaba-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Kaba.jpg 431w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The black apparel (kiswa) covering the Holy Kaaba was folded three meters up off the ground on Wednesday to prevent pilgrims from touching and damaging it during the Haj season, the Presidency of the Two Holy Mosques Affairs said in a statement.<br \/>\n\u201cThe area has been covered by a white cloth, which is two meters high and 47 meters wide,\u201d the statement said, adding that this is done just before the peak of the Haj season every year.<br \/>\n\u201cWe have done this as a precautionary measure to prevent people from tampering with the cover, as many people tend to touch the cover during tawaf (circumambulation around the Kaaba),\u201d said Mohammed bin Abdullah Bajouda, director-general of the Kaaba Cover Factory.<br \/>\n<iframe class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LX8KghwYS4k\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/kaaba-cover-folded-for-haj\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The black apparel (kiswa) covering the Holy Kaaba was folded three meters up off the ground on Wednesday to prevent pilgrims from touching and damaging it during the Haj season, the Presidency of the Two Holy Mosques Affairs said in a statement. \u201cThe area has been covered by a white cloth, which is two meters &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,20,2],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions\/312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}