Is Mecca the center of the earth?

Hundreds of thousands of social media users in several languages around the world are circulating a post claiming that planes cannot fly over the Kaaba in Mecca, because it is the center of the earth and gravity. This claim, which has been circulating for years as a scientific fact, is in fact nothing but a fantasy, according to AFP’s fact-finding service.

There was a lot of talk about the reason behind preventing planes from flying over the Kaaba in Mecca, but one of the aviation specialists in Saudi Arabia, Hassan Al-Ghamdi, explained the real reasons for this ban, and spoke about some false accounts.

Al-Ghamdi, who identified himself as one of the flight supervisors, posted a video clip circulating on social media to explain the real reasons behind not allowing planes to cross over Mecca.

At first, Al-Ghamdi refuted the reasons that say that there is a magnetic field over Makkah Al-Mukarramah that prevents planes from flying, or that there are air gaps that create an imbalance in the layers of the atmosphere and prevent planes from flying.

Al-Ghamdi talked about the most important reason, which is that Mecca is a mountainous area, and therefore it is relatively close to the range of planes flying, which may cause great inconvenience and confusion for those performing the rituals of Umrah or Hajj.

Al-Ghamdi added that the area of ​​the Grand Mosque in Mecca is forbidden to fly because the Grand Mosque in Mecca is dedicated to Muslims, and it is known that in Mecca there are land entrances dedicated to Muslims only, and the matter applies to the atmosphere above the holy area.

It is known that Mecca does not have an air airport, as pilgrims and Umrah pilgrims flock to it by air through the nearest Jeddah airport or Medina airport.

Al-Ka^bah in The Qur’an

The Qur’an mentioned the Ka^bah as “the first house set up for people” for the worship of the One God, and that the Prophet Abraham was the one who raised its bases – along with Ismail – to be a house of worship intended for residents, except for that, the Qur’an did not mention any physical property supernatural to the Kaaba from those mentioned in the publications on Social networking sites that promote this theory.

A Truth

From a scientific point of view, these alleged properties have no basis. The author of the post confuses the Earth’s gravity with its magnetic field, which are two completely separate things. Gravity, as interpreted by modern science, is the force of attraction that bodies form on each other, just as the Earth attracts everything on it or what flies over it or swims in its orbit.

As for the magnetic field, it is a “field” that surrounds magnetic objects.