Mecca: A museum in the Saudi Arabia holy city of Mecca has opened for public with the hope of informing people about life during the time of Prophet Mohammad (SAWW). Mecca’s “Peace Be Upon You, Prophet” museum features nearly 1,500 items, from small relics to body armor suit used during times of war and a larger life-size model of a house.
”The ‘Peace Be Upon You, Prophet’ is a museum fully documenting the age of the prophecy, during which Prophet Mohammad, Peace Be Upon Him, lived, as well as his companions. To show all aspects of life during that era and all that was used at the time, including tools, items people owned, containers, clothing and all such things. The idea of Peace Be Upon You, Prophet’ centers around creating these items to make it possible to understand that era, the era of the great prophecy,” Ali al-Ghamdi, assistant project manager at the museum told Reuters Television.
One of the unique features of the museum is its incorporation of technology to aid visitors on their tour. Along the museum walls there are large LED screens projecting slideshows of images, some including images from Al Madinah Al Munawarah, the city where the prophet (SAWW) is buried, and others include images of his family tree and information about his life.
Nassir al-Zahrani is the founder of the museum. He said the museum was built on scientific grounds and its aims to paint as much of a realistic image as possible of life during the Prophet’s time. “The state of the Prophet, Peace Be upon Him, has all the elements of a modern country, but they don’t come under the same name. I presented them using modern names, so this is a complete body of work, more than three catalogues in the collection. Here, we have the head of the state (Prophet Mohammad), Peace Be Upon Him, then we have the Prophet’s Council, which includes advisors, those responsible for the secrets and such. Then we have the Prophet’s personal affairs, which includes someone handling the sewak (natural toothpaste obtaining from tree branch), someone handling clothing, someone handling ablution and another managing travel preparations and other things,” al-Zahrani said while standing in front of a LED screen projecting images of what the institutional structure looked like at the time.
The museum recently opened. Another museum famous for keeping sacred relics of the Muslim world is the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul. It houses a cloak of the Prophet Mohammed and other artifacts related to him, among them two swords, a bow, hairs from his beard and a tooth.
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