The UnXplained: The Black Stone of Mecca is the MOST SACRED in the World (Season 5) | History
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0:01 Mecca it is home to one of the world's largest religious structures the Grand Mosque in the center Courtyard of this immense
0:10 edifice stands a 43 foot tall Granite Cube known as the Kaaba the house of God five times a day every day almost 2
0:22 billion Muslims across the world turn and pray towards this striking black Monument the holiest and most secret site in all of Islam
0:33 why because embedded in the Eastern corner of the shrine is perhaps the most sacred stone in all the world
0:42 the black stone of Mecca for the world 1.8 billion Muslims this stone is crucial
0:53 when Muslims faced in the direction of Mecca they face in the direction of that stone this object as simple as it might be
1:05 is of incredible significance to the Muslim faith because it is said to have fallen from heaven the commands of Allah at the time of
1:21 Adam and Eve and it was said to have marked the position of the first temple which obviously becomes Mecca itself [Music]
1:34 then the stories of that stone its last during the flood because Muslims have the same flood story that the Jews do from the Hebrew Bible then that stone
1:43 for Muslims is rediscovered by Abraham so Abraham with his son Ishmael build in Mecca the first place of prayer that's why Mecca is important to Muslims
1:55 because this is the first place of prayer to the one God over time it gets worn away the building gets rebuilt in 605 the prophet Muhammad
2:05 himself is the one that places that stone in its place that's part of what gives it power
2:12 each year millions of Muslims make a pilgrimage or Hajj to the Kaaba once their visitors take part in a series of rituals called tawaf which
2:25 includes circling the Kaaba seven times in the belief that it will bring about true humility by linking them with God the black stone is therefore one of the
2:39 focal points of the Hajj ceremony that every Muslim certainly tries to achieve during their lifetime and they will then enter the Central Court of Mecca and if
2:55 possible try to kiss the black stone in emulation of Muhammad who was said to have set it up in this position in the year 605 A.D
3:09 certainly the stories that have been built around it really pull people in and some people suggested that maybe it's something in the stone itself that
3:16 pulls people in Stone itself pulling people in but how for the millions if not billions of
3:27 Muslims who have made their pilgrimage to the Kaaba there's no doubt that the black stone has an inexorable power
3:36 that seems to draw them into its orbit and according to some experts that's because the black stone is not of this world
3:48 Muslims believe that this was sent down by God to Earth if we're scientific we may call that a meteorite if we're not scientific we may
4:00 call that miraculous you know here's this stone that comes from the heavens when a meteorite hits the Earth and somebody witnessed the fall and they
4:08 were to go to that location there's a variety of things that they might be able to find if the Stone Falls in a Sandy area for example there might be a
4:16 lot of heat associated with the meteorite as it falls and that could cause a fusion of the sand to cause some kind of glass to form and so when you
4:25 walk up onto it you might find some interesting new features that you probably wouldn't have seen in that particular part of the of the world
4:33 before meteorites arrive from outer space being exposed to cosmic rays they're slightly
4:41 Radioactive people not exposed to electromagnetic radiation they might have been able to even feel that buzz from this rock from
4:51 the radiation beta particles especially you know whether you believe it was sent by God or whether you believe it was a random act that has literally
4:59 extraterrestrial Origins and so that creates a real power there could the Blackstone of Mecca really have the power to physically affect
5:09 people who come near it the truth is we may never know for sure because Noah has ever been officially
5:18 allowed to inspect or analyze it so there are a lot of exciting and interesting questions about the
5:27 Blackstone I think the first initial one is is it actually a meteorite a lot of people propose that and there's some evidence particularly from a local
5:34 impact crater that it came from there and is there some sort of radiation energy that it emits or is coming from it that we just don't understand yet
5:44 so it would be really amazing to have the opportunity to analyze the Blackstone there are obviously challenges both sort of social as well
5:52 as scientific it's in the Muslim world it's in a very sacred place it's a very sacred stone so bringing in scientists and doing careful analyzes have those
6:01 Social Challenges and would be difficult