Kabah Universal Time

By M. Lili Nur Aulia

Kabah Universal Time - Anyone who set foot in Mecca these days will get a very different atmosphere. In addition to a large building that formerly hotels and shops around the Masjid Al Haram, has been redeveloped, was also busy building in the vicinity of Masjid Al Haram, which seemed not to care about time. If previous Haram rocky hill surrounded, now surrounded by skyscraper hotels.Hotels that can be used to accommodate Muslims who perform the pilgrimage and Umrah every year. Some say, if this effort has been completed, Haj quota was going to be deleted.

One of the major projects now being undertaken in Makkah Kingdom of Saudi Arabiya is, the tower construction project called Abraj Al Bait, which is one of them called the Burj Hour Mecca Palace, or more popularly known as Clock Tower Makkah. The tower is a building complex located in the city of Mecca, was designed by the architects of the Dar Al Handasah Architects and implementation of development undertaken by the Saudi Bin Laden Group to spend more than 3 billion dollars. Itulab a major project which is directed as a first step to change the reference time of Greenwich with Makkah time reference. Also, for the holy city were large and instruction time becomes mecca for more than one billion Muslims in the world.

Now, the Makkah Clock Tower building into the days of the most busy.Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is completing the process of installing a giant-sized special hour, above the highest and biggest tower in the world, and is adjacent to the Grand Mosque. Mohamad Al-Arkoubi, Vice President and General Manager of Hotel Burj Hour Mecca Palace overlooking the Grand Mosque "says," The first part of the hotel will be opened at the end of next June and completion of these hours will be released in late July, before the holy month of Ramadan . "Strictly speaking he stated, this massive project development objective is to start changing the reference time" from Greenwich to Mecca ".

There are seven towers with a tower that has a height of over 6 other tower and is devoted to apartments. Inside the towers will also be made an Islamic museum, and astronomical observations that are used for the purpose of international Ilmiyah and religious. Also go live immediately pernbuatan hour documentary film-related products are placed at the head of Germany's tallest tower. In addition, the towers will also be filled with four floors of shopping centers, conference rooms, and other facilities. Abraj Al Bait Towers Construction is already started its construction since 2004, and gradually the seven towers will be completed in 2010. The towers was estimated to have about 3000 rooms and apartments. And if the number of floors in the entire complex of the tower is calculated all, make the total number of floors is expected to reach 1.455 million m2 and will be building with the largest number of floors in the world, beating The Venetian Macao, Macao, China who becomes the holder of record until today.

In a press conference in Dubai, Arkoubi outlined more details about the tower. The length of the main tower of concrete structure at Mecca is 662 meters long, while the steel structure, upon which the 155 meters, thereby becoming the tallest concrete towers in the world and second highest tower if its structure, after the Tower Khalifa in Dubai. With the long hours that will be installed is 45 meters while 43 meters wide, according to Arkoubi, it is the largest clock in the world due to six times larger than Big Ben in London, and will be connected to the center of the timing of the largest in the world, including London, Paris, New York, and Tokyo.

Makkah Clock Tower, will still be enjoyed at night. Even at night, the Tower will be visible within a radius of more distant than when daylight hours. "We can look at and know the time from a distance of 17 km from the tower at night when the clock rise white and green light. But, at this large can be seen from a distance of about 11 or 12 km at the time of day when the clock is white," said Arkoubi . This project, added Arkoubi, employs more than 7000 people, divided in several towers, a room overlooking the Masjid Al Haram.

Answering Pros Cons Clock Tower

However, this skyscraper tower project also invited the pros and cons. The group considers that the development of counter-tall tower that would lift a symbol of defeat materialism spiritualism or spiritual symbol for the holy city of Mecca. They also criticized the luxury hotels displacing the small hotels. Luxury hotels adjacent to the Masjid Al Haram, according to them, surely can only be enjoyed by the rich, and highly unlikely enjoyed by poor people. Moreover, lower middle income people that is what a lot staying in the mosque seat perform Hajj rituals in a slum or without a roof though.

But Arkoubi have the answer to the criticism. According to him, "The mission is how the kingdom can accommodate ten million people living in Mecca at the same time in 2015. Why you should like it, because seeing an increasing number of Muslims the world and the increased sharpness of the Hajj and Umrah visits from year to year." According Arkoubi again, the target of accommodating ten million people live in the same time in Mecca could not have achieved without building buildings skyscraper hotel that has room enough rooms for the guests of God. He also explained, "So, the vast city of Mecca, surrounded by mountains that are very small. While the pilgrims and Umrah really want to stay close to the Haram Masiidil. Even among the guests of God, there is also like the hotels that are specific topopulation from the same country.

Initially, the discovery of Mecca as the Center of the Earth

Makkah Clock-related issues, ranging widely discussed since April 2009, coinciding with a conference that emphasized Ilmiyah Mecca as the center of the earth. At that time, the inventor of Palestinian origin at Mecca, named Yasin a-Shouk who said, "Makkah Clock moves against clockwise rotation as tawaf around the Kaaba", convinced that his invention was more difficult to deny. After a variety of earth science experts got together and decided that the Mecca, where the Kaaba is located, as the `center of the earth`, then the discovery of a-Shouk Yasin was getting stronger. He said, it takes 4 years to make it difficult to deny.

Make, development efforts largest clock tower in the world, continue to be done. Its position next to the Masjid Al Haram, Makkah Mukarramah. Now, the remaining hours of perfecting the existing location at the highest point of the tower. Did making strategic moves Makkah Clock Tower, the changing world of Greenwich time reference?

An Answer, Why Mecca called Umm al-Oura?

Why Makkah mentioned in the Qur'an by the term "Quro Umm" (mother or parent of the cities)? Why also, God Almighty said other areas in addition to Makkah with the phrase "haulahaa maa" (the countries around it)? When judging a language course, which means mother Umm word is the figure who became the source of offspring. Make when Makkah is called the Umm Al-Qura, Makkah meaning is the source of all other lands.

Questions and studies like this, a little bit now began answered through various discovery Ilmiyah. Indeed, experiments on this stage, already published in 1978, through the testimony of Dr.. Husain who was then the Head of Measure Earth Sciences at the University of Riyadh, Saudi Arabiya.The study was later published also in various science magazines in the West. Together with his colleagues, Dr. Husain found that judging from the angle of geography (earth sciences) and geology (earth science), proved that Mecca is the center of the earth.

Then, in 2009, was re-Ilmiyah findings published in a Ilmiyah conference titled "Makkah as the Center of the Earth: Theory and Practice." Conference held in Dhoha, Qatar's strengthening the findings that Mecca is the center of the earth. The conference then spawn containing recommendations call for changing the Muslim world during the reference period refers to Greenwich, to Mecca.

Many scientific arguments to prove the square zero through the city of Mecca and not through Greenwich in England. Mecca is the exact latitude point straight to the point in the magnetic North Pole. This condition is not owned by any other city, even the Greenwich meridian defined as zero.

Perhaps, Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) was imposed on the world when the majority of the country in the world under the British colony. And if the discovery Ilmiyah that Mecca as the center of the earth is applied, it is easy for everyone to find time to pray, at the same time would end the long controversy that began four decades ago about the time reference. world.