Today, the General Presidency for the Affairs of the Grand Mosque and the Prophet’s Mosque replaced the honorable clothing of the Kaaba, as was the annual custom.
The specific team from the General Administration of the King Abdulaziz Complex for the Covering of the Kaaba supervised the dismantling of the old one and the installation of the new one, and then installed it in the corners and surface of the Kaaba.
The honorable covering of the Kaaba is one of the most important manifestations of reverence and honor for the Sacred House of God .. The history of Muslims has been associated with the honorable covering of the Kaaba and its manufacture and excelled in it the most skilled workers in this field in the Islamic world and raced to obtain this great honor and is a garment of black silk engraved with verses from the Qur’an from water Gold, the Kaaba is covered in it and changed once a year on the morning of the day of Arafah.
The wisdom comes from the covering of the Kaaba from being an Islamic ritual and it is a follower of what the Messenger of God - may God bless him and grant him peace - and the esteemed companions after him, it was reported that after the conquest of Mecca in the ninth year of the Hijri year, the Messenger - may God bless him and grant him peace - clad in the argument of saying goodbye to the Yemeni garments And its expenses were from the Muslims money house.
The orthodox caliphs came after the Messenger - may God bless him and grant him peace -
Abu Bakr and Umar, may God be pleased with them, wore them with the robe of Al-Qubati and Yamani Al-Barood, then Othman bin Affan - may God be pleased with him - covered them with two garments, one above the other, and this was the first of its kind in Islam.
And the history of the clothing of the Kaaba dates back to what was mentioned about / Adnan bin Ed / to the Grandfather of the Messenger and he is one of those who wore it and it was said that / he followed Al-Hamiri / King of Yemen is the first to wear it in the pre-Islamic period after he visited Mecca and he was the first to make the Kaaba a door and a key.
After / Al-Hameeri followed / many people wore it in ignorance until matters came to / Qusay bin Kalab / the fourth grandfather of the Messenger who organized it after he gathered the tribes of his people under one banner and offered the tribes to cooperate with each other according to his ability until Abu Rabiah Abdullah bin bin appeared Amr al-Makhzoumi, and he was a merchant with a lot of money and a wide wealth, so he indicated to Quraysh that I wear the Kaaba a year and I covered it a year, so Quraysh agreed on that and remained so until he died and Quraysh inherited this work until he conquered Makkah.
In the era of Islamic countries and the emergence of writing on clothing, and in the era of the Umayyad state, the Kaaba was dressed as two garments in the year on the “Ashura Day” and the other in “the last month of Ramadan in preparation for Eid al-Fitr”. Embroidery and specialized in that "Tenis, Tuna and Shata" people from the Egyptian cities.
During the reign of the Caliph al-Ma`mun, the honorable Kaaba was covered three times a year, and writing appeared on the kiswah since the beginning of the Abbasid era, so the caliphs of the princes wrote their names on the kiswah and compared them with the name of the entity in which they were made and the date of their manufacture.
And since the era of the founder King Abdulaziz Al Saud, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has started the gates of industry for the Kaaba cladding through a private house in Ajyad area in front of the House of the Ministry of Public Finance in Makkah in the year 1346 of the migration, and this is the first Saudi suit made in Mecca.
The honorable covering of the Kaaba is replaced on the ninth day of Dhu al-Hijjah each year, and attention from the sons of the founder, King Abdulaziz Al Saud - may God have mercy on him - continues to be taken care of in the manufacture and development of the clothing, as the Kaaba factory moved in 1397 from migration to its new building in Umm Al-Jood and was equipped with the latest The advanced machines in the industry have been manufactured until now at its best and replace the clothing of the Kaaba on the ninth day of Dhu al-Hijjah every year.
And the stages of the Kaaba covering the honorable pass through a group of technical and operational departments starting with the dyeing stage, which is the first stage in the production of the cladding in the factory, where the dyeing department is provided with the best types of pure natural silk in the world, then the automated tissue that contains the Qur'anic verses and the copied verses, then the laboratory department that performs various tests of threads Silk and cotton in order to ensure their conformity with the required standards in terms of the strength of the silk threads and their resistance to erosion factors in addition to doing some research and necessary experiments, then comes the printing phase that consists of the embroidery belt section and the section of the sewing of the cladding and then the unit of care for the Kaaba cladding .
After the end of all stages of production and manufacturing, and in the middle of the month of Dhu Al-Qi'dah, an annual ceremony is held at the Kaaba Factory.
The last piece to be installed is the curtain door of the Kaaba, which is the most difficult stage of the change of the cladding. After the completion of it, the quilted Kaaba dress is lifted with solid pieces of white fabric and about three meters high from Shazrawan / Marble Base of the Kaaba / known as the process / Ihram of the Kaaba / and raises the Kaaba dress.
During the Hajj pilgrimage, during the pilgrimage, after the pilgrims head to the level of Arafat, the Kaaba will replace its cover once, and the city’s Sacred House will change the old honorable Kaaba garment and replace it with the new garment, in preparation for receiving the pilgrims on the next morning that corresponds to Eid Al-Adha.