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Mecca Clock as the Global Center

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At a conference held in Doha, Qatar in 2008 titled ‘Mecca, the Center of the Earth, Theory and Practice,’ Muslim scientists and clerics called for ‘Mecca Time” to replace the 126-year-old Universal Time standard “Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).” The Muslims hope to convince the world that GMT should be replaced with the “Mecca Time” because “modern science has provided evidence that Mecca is the true center of the Earth.”  Sheikh Youssef al-Qaradawy, one of the clerics that made the proposal, also offers the proof of this exists in “the greatness of the Muslim pray direction, that of facing Mecca.” He further went on to say that the British, as a colonial power, forced the GMT on the rest of the world.

There seems to now be a popular trend to find Koranic precedents for modern science and that scientific truths are in the holy book just waiting to be unveiled.  It is with this in mind that Saudi Arabia is building what will be the largest clock in the world on the second-largest skyscraper in the world, overlooking Mecca’s Grand Mosque in the Islamic holy city of Mecca. The clock is to rotate anti-clockwise and is supposed to help Muslims determine the direction of Mecca from any point on Earth. It will be more than six times larger than Big Ben’s diameter, with its four clock faces sitting more than 400 meters over the Holy Haram compound, with the words “In the Name of Allah” in huge letters underneath and will be lit up with two million LED lights. These lights will flash five times a day to signal the daily prays and will be seen as far as 30 kilometers.

The completion of this clock is expected to  be in the middle of this month, August, the month of Ramadan, with a three-month trial period. It must be noted that this clock is part of the Saudi government’s plan to develop Mecca to accommodate as many as 10,000,000 hajj Pilgrims every year, increasing it capabilities from 3,000,000. This complex called Abraj al-Bait is just across the street from the south gate of the Grand Mosque. It will include 3 top-class hotels, the Fairmont, Raffles and Swiss Hotels offering 3,000 hotel rooms and apartments. In addition, there will be a five-story shopping center, huge prayer and conference halls and 1.5 million square meters of floor space. The purpose is to be able to accommodate the rapidly growing global population of Muslims who have the obligation of a pilgrimage to Mecca at least once in their lifetime.  It looks like Muslims all around the world will be telling time by this new timepiece, a dream come true for many Muslims.



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