What is Mecca?

I'm going to convert, go and then un-convert just to see the wonders of the city.

Why can't non-muslims go to Mecca? it's very simple!

When you arrive in Singapore, if you're caught with brown sugar or illegal drugs, you will be punished. So now can we ask why is this rule made? No, their country, their rule, obviously.

To visit Mecca, you just need to witness kalima: there is no God but Allah and prophet Muhammad is his last and final messenger. This is the visa to visit kaaba (Mecca). Hope it's clear to my dear brothers and sisters.

"No other religion has managed to hold on to an entire city and keep it purely for the holiness of it! We need to back down and give the Muslims some props."

It's called Vatican City.

They can keep their city if they want. It's been gutted and is just a shell now. The Saudi Government has destroyed 95 percent of the city and replaced it with hotels, malls and bathrooms. Devoutly religious? I don't think so. The Saudi family goes too far.

When I am not washing and shaving myself and my clothes are dirty, but when I pray to God in these conditions, won't God listen to my prayers?

When the nomads in Saudi Arabia were moving from one place to another place without taking a bath and without shaving for a months in the period that Mohamed lived, did they prayed also to God -- or not?

That's the reason Muslims circumcise themselves or not. --Arvesthan

Was kab'aa in Mecca a Hindu temple in ancient times? Please clarify this.

Finally. A post informing people about Muslims instead of demeaning us. I love whoever wrote this.

And huh, I never knew non-Muslims couldn't visit (even though I'm a Muslim), but oh well. Certain places have their own rules.

I will answer your question. Non Muslims aren't allowed inside mecca. You can find the answer from reading the holy Quran.

Why are non-muslims not allowed to enter Makkah?

We of course accept muslims around the world to live with/without a reason. But why are others not allowed to enter their so-called territory? It is just a common experience and for knowledge. I don't find it fair.

Even some muslims are not faithful to their religion.

All gods are the same; it's just that humans made everything in different ways.

Some people misspelled Makkah by writing Mecca or Meca and this is totally unfair.

There are some goods points in these comments but what I think everyone needs to understand is that Mecca is important to the Muslims and really only the Muslims. Let them have their city! There are millions of other ones all around the world for us to goggle at.

Is Mecca really that important to anyone else in the world but Muslims? So let them have it! We need to back off. No one ever said that its wrong to have a city just for one religion. I'm not Muslim but I think it's cool how Muslims have managed to keep a whole city focused on the religion.

No other religion has managed to hold on to an entire city and keep it purely for the holiness of it! We need to back down and give the Muslims some props.

I think you would likely have to ask a muslim person why non muslims are not allowed inside mecca before you jump into conclusions and exhaust yourself with anger. its all about the matters people should follow in ancient sites, especially a religious one like mecca. So to solely ensure that non-muslim people who lack the knowledge of the manners, it has to be taken in an Islamic site (remember they're not muslims, so they won't know them) and to ensure that muslims will practice their hajj or pilgrimage in ease and smoothly.

They made that rule and I don't blame them. One time, some famous fashion magazine had a disrespectful photo shoot inside a mosque, and as it's been said, some people are able to pay a visit to Mecca once in a lifetime to fulfill their spiritual dream and they really don't want their money to go to waste. When someone comes and spoils their time there with something like what this magazine did, and I know if you were in their shoes you wouldn't either. Put yourself in their place and imagine you were going in a spiritual trip. Let's be honest – you don't want anything to spoil that, no matter what, so let's be true and fair here. If you went on a spiritual trip to cleanse yourself from, let's say drinking issues or something else (fill this blank with a big issue you have you want to get rid of). Let's say you paid $30,000 to go to a Hindu place where everything is pure and clean spiritually and you find a person in front of you drinking and smoking and doing the thing you're trying to cut from your life right there (You will be mad and disappointed).

I'm just giving unrelated examples as far as mecca goes, but it could be related to some of you just so you'll could understand this rule. Now I know you're related and you understand this rule. This rule is not a kind of discrimination, it's been made so fairness will be applied, for both muslims and non muslims. Muslims deserve to be able to practice their beliefs with ease, and to a non-muslim person it takes away any embarrassing moments that will occur from those who, no doubt want to avoid doing anything wrong, but still they would because they don't really know anything about the Islam religion and the post comments confirm this fact. If you're not related or understood this rule already, I hope one day you will.

I guess every christian should visit bethelehem.

Non Muslims aren't allowed inside mecca, but they expect to be allowed anywhere they want in the USA. discrimination big time there. But it's OK because they're Muslims and they can do whatever they want.

I find it amazing how people go to jail Christian, catholic or non religious but come out Muslims. If muslims are supposed to be a peaceful religion, then why are so many in jail?

Those who do not know should not comment. Historically, anyone was allowed to visit Mecca in the past, but then a plan to tunnel to the black obelisk was found and since then, non-muslims have not been allowed in the city.

makkah is not the pyramids, or victoria falls or any other tourist place. Visiting makkah is fulfilling one of Muslim's five pillars. are you?

the fact that non muslim are not permitted in makkah

is not discrimination.

the requirements to get to makkah are not materialistic or tangible. it is rather spiritual. you need to detach yourself from all lures pulling you towards your personal desires to go there. in other words, you must be a moomin not a believer.

moomin is when you know that god is there. believer means god might be there and then again he might not.

i hope i did not harm anyone's feelings by my statement.

To Madhushan and others:

Why non muslims cannot enter Makkah?

It's like this: to enter Makkah one must have a pure faith and that's Islam. It's like a visa to a country. If you don't have a valid visa can you enter it? Believe me, Islam is your visa to Makkah, to Eternal Bliss, to Heaven. So get lucky and choose the right way!

If you do not remove your foreskin, if you do not shave all your pubic hairs,if you do not wash your private areas each time you go to the toilet, then how can you be allowed to get into the holy city of Makkah?

And madhushan, i believe you do not like to use the word Allah, but can you use The Lord, instead of GOD, please?

God accepts those into heaven that accepts His son as the one true Messiah Jesus. Only Jesus was sinless.

when Abraham is considered to be the father of Muslims, Christians and Jews, i don't see a reason restricting non-muslims to visit makkah and Kaa'ba. Whats wrong in that? GOD accepts everyone provided they are sinless...This kind of act can be compared to Jesus's parable 'Straining out gnats and swallowing camel' in the Book Written by Matthew...Salvation is the only thing that is much expected from GOD rather than these kind of discrimination