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#352 – Omar Suleiman: Islam
Lex Fridman Podcast
What Is Mecca?
Worship that we do is not torturous. It's actually good for us. We have amazing hygiene because of how much we have to wash up for prayer. Mecca is our kibla, it's our place of direction when we are alive and when we are dead. So actually we pray facing towards it. When we die, we are also faced towards it in our graves. And it kind of gives us that unifying spirit. The mind is the really one we've been talking about, and that's really, really the big one.
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