A BLACK SILK KABAA KISWA 20TH CENTURY

A fragment of the inner curtain of sacred kiswa for the inner wall of the Kabaa with an inscribed weave in cream-colored silk over a black ground.
Embellished with undulating bands running from the beginning to the end of the cloth.
The inscriptions :
- ‘Kalimaat al-Tawhid, There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is his Prophet’.
- ‘I gratefully declare and believe Allah to be devoid of any deficiencies, I declare and believe the Omnipotent Allah is free of every defect’.
- The two expressions, ‘Ya Mannan’ (O, the All-Bounteous) , and ‘Ya Hannan’ (O, the Most-Compassionate) on both sides of large word of Allah.
100 by 130 cm.