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Muslims shave their head and beard and don special sacred attire that consists
of two seamless sheets of white cloth. One is to be worn round the waist and
the other over the shoulders. Both these rites are remnants of the old Vedic
practice of entering Hindu temples clean and with holy seamless white sheets.
According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, the Kaaba has 360 idols. Traditional
accounts mention that one of the deities among the 360 destroyed when the
place was stormed was that of Saturn; another was of the Moon and yet
another was one called Allah. That shows that in the Kaaba the Arabs
worshipped the nine planets in pre-Islamic days. In India the practice of
‘Navagraha’ puja, that is worship of the nine planets, is still in vogue. Two of
these nine are Saturn and Moon. In India the crescent moon is always painted
across the forehead of the Siva symbol. Since that symbol was associated with
the Siva emblem in Kaaba it came to be grafted on the flag of Islam.
The Hindu Vedic letter in Sanskrit "OM" if seen in a mirror one can see the
Arabic numbers 786 and this is the most sacred number for Muslims and copies
of the Arabic Koran have the mysterious figure 786 imprinted on them. In their
ignorance simply they do not realize that this special number is nothing more
than the holiest of Vedic symbols misread and none of the Arabic scholar has
been able to determine how they chose 786 as the sacred for them. In short
muslims are also going around Siva Lingam at Kaaba, seven times as Hindus go
around it seven times.
A few miles away from Mecca are a big signboard which bars the entry of any
non-Muslim into the area. This is a reminder of the days when the Kaaba was
stormed and captured solely for the newly established faith of Islam. The
object in barring entry of non-Muslims was obviously to prevent its recapture.
Kaaba is clothed in a black shroud. This custom also originated from the days
when it was thought necessary to discourage its recapture by camouflaging it.
Another Hindu tradition associated with the Kaaba is that of the sacred stream
Ganga (sacred waters of the Ganges river). According to the Hindu
tradition Ganga is also inseparable from the Shiva emblem as the crescent
moon. Wherever there is a Siva emblem, Ganga must co-exist. True to that
association a sacred fount exists near the Kaaba. Its water is held sacred
because it has been traditionally regarded as Ganga since pre-Islamic times
(Zam-Zam water).