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What did the disbelievers do at the Kaaba during the جاهلية (Age of Ignorance)?

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The disbelievers used to circumambulate and pray at the Kaaba, but their prayer was whistling and clapping, as described in the Quranic verse: "And their prayer at the House was not but whistling and clapping" (Al-Anfal: 35). Their circumambulation was performed naked, where the woman would circumambulate nude and say: "Who will lend me a 'titwaf' (a piece of cloth) to place on her private parts, and she would say: 'Today some of it will appear or all of it, and what appears of it, I do not permit.'" A narration mentioned that this was the reason for the revelation of the verse: "O Children of Adam, take your adornment at every mosque" (Al-A'raf: 31).

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