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<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\nThe claim is viral on both Twitter<\/a> and Facebook<\/a>. Alt News has also received several requests to verify the claim on its official WhatsApp helpline number (+91 76000 11160).<\/p>\n Image 1<\/strong><\/p>\n For the first image, we performed a reverse image search on Yandex which took us to a page on Pinterest<\/a> that describes the image as “Rukn E Yamani corner of Kaaba”. The image carries the name of the Facebook page ‘Cities of muhammad (pbuh)’ on top. A rummage through the page took us to the original photo published in 2012.<\/p>\n \u062a\u0645\u0627\u0645 \u0645\u0648\u0645\u0646\u06cc\u0646 \u06a9\u0648 \u062c\u0634\u0646 \u0648\u0644\u0627\u062f\u062a \u0645\u0648\u0644\u0627 \u0639\u0644\u06cc {\u0639\u0644\u06cc\u06c1 \u0633\u0644\u0627\u0645} \u0628\u06c1\u062a \u0628\u06c1\u062a \u0645\u0628\u0627\u0631\u06a9…<\/p>\n Posted by Cities of muhammad (pbuh)<\/a> on\u00a0Monday, 3 September 2012<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n We found a reference to the Rukn-e-Yamani on the Government of India’s Haj guide PDF<\/a> (page 41) prepared by the Haj Committee of India, a statutory body of the Ministry of Minority Affairs. It says that the Kaaba in Mecca has four corners 1) Hajr-e-Aswad, 2) Rukn-e-Shami, 3) Rukn-e-Iraqi and 4) Rukn-e-Yamani.<\/p>\n Rukn-e-Yamani<\/a>\u00a0translates to “The Yemeni Corner” and is situated on the southwestern corner of the Kaaba. It faces Yemen thus the name Rukn-e-Yamani. Pilgrims perform “Istilaam<\/a>” on the exposed corner i.e., they kiss or touch the corner and make a prayer.<\/p>\n Furthermore, Rukn-e-Shaam is the “The Syrian Corner”, Rukn-e-Iraqi is “The corner that faces Iraq” and Hajr-e-Aswad or “Black Stone” is on the eastern corner of the Kaaba.<\/p>\n Second image<\/strong><\/p>\n For the second viral image, we again performed a reverse image search which took us to a page on Pinterest<\/a> that identifies the idol as “12 Heads Shivalinga, Veeratpur, Rajasthan, India”. Taking this as a clue, we looked for more details and found a mapsofindia.com<\/a> link that says a huge cave in Pandu Hills of Virat Nagar, Rajasthan houses a statue of Nandi and a Shivaling decorated with 12 faces of Shiva. The photo was uploaded in 2015 on the website Maps of India<\/a>.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/07\/2021-07-02-20_59_40-7-\u0907\u0924\u093f\u0939\u093e\u0938-\u092e\u0947\u0902-\u092a\u0939\u0932\u0940-\u092c\u093e\u0930-\u092e\u0915\u094d\u0915\u093e-\u092e\u0926\u0940\u0928\u093e-\u0915\u093e-\u0936\u093f\u0935\u0932\u093f\u0902\u0917-\u0926\u093f\u0916\u093e\u092f\u093e-\u0917\u092f\u093e-search-results-_-Fac-min.jpg\")
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