Discover the meaning of the term Jha alkaba (جهة الكعبة) in Islamic vocabulary.
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Updated on 11 April 2026 at 1:05 AM
📖 3 min readIn terminology: The direction of the Sacred House, and its airspace extending up to the seventh heaven. (Al-Bujayrimi) The face: that which faces you of the head, and which contains the eyes, the mouth, and the nose. Its plural is awjuh and wujuh. - That which faces from everything. It is said the face of the house: meaning its facade which is on the side of its door. - The leader of the people and their noble. - The thing itself and its essence. And in the very noble Quran: ﴿And do not invoke with Allah any other deity. There is no deity except Him. Everything will be destroyed except His Face. His is the judgement, and to Him you will be returned﴾ (Al-Qasas: 88). - The heart, and in the noble hadith: "You will either straighten your rows, or Allah will cause dissension between your faces." This is a metonymy for the divergence of desires. - The day: its beginning. And in the sublime revelation: ﴿And a faction of the People of the Scripture say, "Believe in what was revealed to the believers at the beginning of the day and reject it at its end that they may return"﴾ (Ali 'Imran: 72) meaning: they consulted among themselves to manifest faith at the beginning of the day and pray the morning prayer with the Muslims, then when the end of the day came, they apostatized back to their religion, so that the ignorant among the people would say: nothing returned them to their religion except their discovery of a flaw and a defect in the religion of the Muslims. And this is one of the stratagems of the people of disbelief, to corrupt the religious affair of the weak among the people. - According to the jurists, except Malik: from the hairline of the direction-front to the bottom of the chin in length, and between the two earlobes in width. And Malik said: what is between the beard and the ear is not part of the face. (Ibn 'Abd al-Barr). The wujuh: plural of wajh (face).