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Mukhallaqa pillar is one of the pillars of Masjid al-Nabi and the closest pillar to mihrab of Prophet(a), which was the place where incense was placed to perfume the Masjid al-Nabi. After changeing Qibla in the second year of Hijra/ 624 , the Prophet used to pray in front of this pillar for some time. Therefore, this pillar, which was the sign of the Prophet's prayer, was called the “ʿAlam(sign) pillar”.
the sources mentions that blessing this pillar is recommended and prayers next to it is fulfilled. It is also reported that Imam Rida(a) prayed 6 or 8 rakats next to this pillar.
The place of Mukhallaqa pillar
Mukhallaqah is the closest pillar to prophet's mihrab, which is connected to the back of the mihrab from the west[1] and now it is a little ahead of its original place[2] and above it is written in a green circle with golden lines the words "اسطوانه المخلّقه Al- Mukhallaqa pillar".[3]
Concept
The arabic word, Mukhallaqa(مُخَلَّقه), is from Khalūq(خَلوق) or Khalāq(خَلاق) means good smell, it is a type of perfume whose major part is saffron.[4] This pillar was named Mukhallkha(Perfumed) because of that, to perfume the mosque, it was smeared with perfume or incense was burned on it.[5]
History
There are several narrations of the first people who tried to perfume the mosque, which are as follows:
- It is said that the first person who perfumed the Prophet's Mosque was the wife of Uthmān b. Maẓʿūn, one of the first Muslims, when his wife spat in the mosque, he washed and perfumed it.[6]
References
Ibn Manẓūr, Muḥammad b. Mukarram. Lisān al-ʿArab. Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1414 AH.
- Najjār, Muḥammad b. Maḥmūd al- .Al-Durra al-thamīna fī akhbār al-madina. Medina: Markaz Buḥūth wa Darāsāt al-Madina al-Munawwara, 1427 AH.
- Qāʾidān, Aṣghar. Tārīkh wa āthār-i Islāmi Makka wa Madīna. 4th edition. Qom: Nashr-i Mashʿar, 1381 Sh
- ↑ Yamānī, Mawsūʿa makka al-mukarrama, vol. 2, p. 435.
- ↑ Qāʾidān, Tārīkh wa āthār-i Islāmi Makka wa Madīna, p. 191.
- ↑ Qāʾidān, Tārīkh wa āthār-i Islāmi Makka wa Madīna, p. 191; Yamānī, Mawsūʿa makka al-mukarrama, vol. 2, p. 435.
- ↑ Ibn Manẓūr, Lisān al-ʿArab, vol. 10, p. 91, word(خلق)
- ↑ Qāʾidān, Tārīkh wa āthār-i Islāmi Makka wa Madīna, p. 191.
- ↑ Najjār,Al-Durra al-thamīna, p. 100.