Al-Sharaa Reveals Saudi Arabia’s gift

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00:01Wearing the same attire and standing in the same place,

00:05President Ahmed al-Sharah returned to the Umayyad mosque

00:09just as he had entered it for the first time on the day Syria was liberated from the al-Assad regime.

00:15Al-Sharah performed the dawn prayer surrounded by a large number of worshippers

00:20in a scene that brought Syrians back to the very first moment after liberation.

00:25After much anticipation, following the spread of images of a box

00:32bearing the logos of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Syria inside the mosque,

00:37the Syrian president revealed the gift presented by Saudi Arabia

00:41on the occasion of the anniversary of liberation,

00:44which was a piece of the Qiswa of the Kaaba.

00:55The Kaaba's Qiswa, or cover, is considered one of the most sacred Islamic symbols.

01:12It is made in Mecca from black silk embroidered with gold threads,

01:16and no part of it is given except on rare occasions of great symbolic significance.