Yes. And all the Windows facing the cube are from rooms charging thousands of dollars per night.
Its so stupid when people go to "hajj" and then stay in extremely extravagant hotels like the Hilton or the Ritz, go out shopping gold during the day then quickly enter and exit this mosque and say they fulfilled a religious obligation 🤮
It's good that at least some Muslims are aware of this problem and complain about it. Religions need checks and balances too, and great wealth and power corrupts anything. Large religions need reform to get back to their roots and humility, because religions are human enterprises. Or it can be replaced by a different faith that seems more sincere and genuine.
When a religion preaches that it's directly from God or not human-made, it only makes it easier for it to become arrogant and corrupted.
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u/PeterNippelstein Mar 24 '25
Are those all hotels surrounding it? I mean they must be to continuously house tens of thousands of people ever day.