The Secret Meaning of Islam’s Kaʿba The religion of ancient Arabia and early Islam ritualistically recognized the Black Man as God through the ceremonies associated with the Kaʿba in Mecca. The Kaʿba architecturally personified and symbolized the First Adam, Aḷḷāh’s (God’s) First Khalīfa or vicegerent on earth. As the Khalīfa or vicegerent of Aḷḷāh Adam is called in Arabic insān , which means “man” but it also means “pupil” of the eye. Esoteric Islam affirms that Adam is called insān because Adam is to Aḷḷāh what the pupil is to the eye as the actual instrument of vision. Aḷḷāh saw and experienced His created world through Adam, His Khalīfa, His Image ( Ṣūra ), and His Right Hand on Earth ( Yamīn A ḷḷ āh fī l-ard ). This fact is related to the Holy Qur’ān’s description of Aḷḷāh forming Adam from black mud ( ḥ ama ʾ ) and then blowing His Divine Breath – rūh – into Adam, and then calling the angels to prostrate on the ground to Adam. The pupil of the eye is black and the scriptural body of Adam in which Aḷḷāh’s Divine Breath resided is black, reminding us of the black carbon and black melanin of the scientific body of The Original Man. Aḷḷāh’s Breath rūh is a manifestation of Aḷḷāh’s Light, nūr . Aḷḷāh and His Divine Light, the hadith tell us, are ma ḥ jūb “veiled,” and it is Adam that is the veil, ḥ ijāb . Because Aḷḷāh’s Divine Light and Breath inhabited Adam and was veiled by Adam, Adam was the first and the true Bayt A ḷḷ āh or House of God. Adam was the Living Kaʿba. Adam is the reality ( ḥ aqīqa ) behind the stone cubical house in Mecca, which is only the symbol ( mithāl ) pointing to Adam as the symbolized reality ( mamthūl ). The reason that the most prominent feature of the Kaʿba is the black veil or kiswa (“garment”) is because Adam’s black body veiled Aḷḷāh’s Divine Light on earth. The carbon-made, melanin-accessorized bodily garment of God (the Black Man) is symbolized by the clothing of the Kaʿba, the kiswa . This is the secret of the Islam’s holiest house.