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Kabah
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Proper Noun
en Kaaba
en 2023 2005 Ronald L. Bonewitz Smithsonian Rock and Gem: The Definitive Guide to Rocks, Minerals, Gems and Fossils, Softcover 2023 American Edition Minerals: Oxides 151 Ruby also took on an important symbolism for Islam: after his expulsion from paradise and arrival in Mecca, Adam was shown a ruby canopy under which lay a glowing stone—a meteorite. He was instructed to build the Kabah, now the main Muslim shrine, over it.