Mosque: Cube and Circle (Faith & Form Magazine)

Let us visit the historic cube in Mecca to conduct a thought-experiment: Imagine you are suspended in space in a satellite directly
above it. Presume also that it is night and all the lights in the
world have been switched off. Now switch on the lights that shine on
the courtyard of the Great Mosque of Mecca in which the black cube
is located, and also switch on the lights of all the mosques of the world.
This is what you will see: directly below you will be the black square
of the Ka’ba at the center of a vast concentric system of white circles
that emanate from it like ripples: The innermost circles are in constant
motion around it, and they are packed close together. White wheels
within wheels unceasing in their motion. They are encircled by white
circles that have a space between each other. These do not move around
the cube but they do sway towards and away from it. Radiating away are
unmoving white dots that make up bigger and bigger circles at greater
distances from each other.
The three sets of circles we see while being suspended in space
above the Ka’ba are gatherings of people in different acts of worship.
Closest to the cube, the Ka’ba, are pilgrims dressed in the stipulated
white unstitched garments, akin to their shrouds, circumambulating,
walking seven times around the cube chanting Labaik, allahumma
labaik (“I am here, for You, I am here”). They form the first set of moving concentric circles.