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The act of sacrifice itself is subject to no other ceremonies than that of turning the victim's face towards the Kebly or the Kaaba, and to say, during the act of cutting its throat, "In the name of the most merciful God! O supreme God!" Even now, persons of wealth kill camels.
Instead of the Mahrab, or niche, which is placed in mosques to show the direction in which the faithful ought to turn in their prayers, Mohammed placed a large stone, which was at first turned to the north, towards Jerusalem, and placed in the direction of the Kaaba of Mekka, in the second year of the Hedjra, when the ancient Kebly was changed.
Together with the Jewish Bedouins, his own adherents had till then Jerusalem as their Kebly; but Mohammed now turned it towards the Kaaba, to which that fine passage of the Koran alludes: "Say, to God belong the east and the west; he directs whomsoever he pleases in the road of piety:" a sentence written to convince the Moslims, that wherever they turned, in their prayers, God stood before them.
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