“To gaze for the first time at the Holy Ka’ba is a major dignifying honor, a heart melting experience, a spiritual feeling as though one has reached the ultimate nearness of Divine acceptance. in fact, the Holy Ka’ba is like a bride manifesting at the Sacred stage of Divine Majesty, training with the pilgrims circumambulating it, celebrating the Divine Praises, fraught with the delegation of the Merciful Lord Who brought them to fulfill their vow, and eventually to receive the Divine blessings of fulfilling one’s covenant with his Lord”. وَإِذْ بَوَّأْنَا لِإِبْرَاهِيمَ مَكَانَ الْبَيْتِ أَن لَّا تُشْرِكْ بِي شَيْئًا وَطَهِّرْ بَيْتِيَ لِلطَّائِفِينَ وَالْقَائِمِينَ وَالرُّكَّعِ السُّجُودِ Friday Khutba by Shaykh Muhammad Al-Akili on Friday July 31st, 2020 C.E. at Annoor Jami Mosque, the 10th of Zul-Hijja 1441 Hijri.