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Before Islam, the Quraysh knew the Ka\\u2019bah was special, but they misused the holy site in pursuit of idolatry. As a result, the Prophet \\ufdfa avoided the Ka\\u2019bah in his early years, wishing to stay away from shirk and obscenity. But that would change once he received revelation. As he learned about what the Ka\\u2019bah truly stood for\\u2014a symbol of monotheism in a lost world\\u2014he began to spend more time there to establish the rituals of Hajj.