keblah

[keb-luh]

noun

1. kiblah.

Example Sentences

The faces of all beholders were now turned towards this Keblah of a bird, like those of the Jews towards their ruined Jerusalem.

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We appointed the Keblah towards which thou didst formerly pray, only that we might know him who followeth the apostle, from him who turneth back on his heels; though this change seem a great matter, unless unto those whom God hath directed.

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Verily although thou shouldst show unto those to whom the scripture hath been given all kinds of signs, yet they will not follow thy Keblah, neither shalt thou follow their Keblah; nor will one part of them follow the Keblah of the other.

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Caaba, an ancient Arab temple, a small square structure in the grand mosque of Mecca, with a mysterious black stone, probably an aerolite, built in it, on which all pilgrims who visit the shrine imprint a kiss; "the Keblah of all Moslem, the eyes of innumerable praying men being turned towards it from all the quarters of the compass five times a day."

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Keblah, the point of the compass to which people turn their faces when they worship, as the Mohammedans do to Mecca when they pray.

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