The things kids say!

This is something a child at the daycare center I work at said to her mother and her mother told me about it. The child is 3 years old but very articulate for her age.
Her mother told me they were looking at pictures of people and talking about where they came from and suddenly the little girl told her mother "I am from Mecca". That's all she said. Her mother thought it was very interesting and when she told me about it I did too! What is Mecca? Where is it? The little girl didn't give her mother any more details and I don't want to push it as she isn't my child. I didn't come right out and say to her mother "maybe it's past life related" as I don't know her beliefs and I wouldn't want to offend her but I kind of hinted on it something like "it's interesting when children say something like that and you have to wonder how they come up with it." and then I related to her how Cameron seems to know a lot about God and talks about Him in a way no one else in our family ever has and how when I asked him about it he said "I just know". She found it very interesting and I THINK she got the jist of what I was talking about without me coming right out and saying it, lol. Working with kids as long as I have I always keep my ears open for these kinds of things but this is the first time I have really dealt with it.

Mecca has to do with Islam. It is the place or the act of a holy pilgramage that they go on once a year. I do not think women are allowed to do it but am not sure. I bet you could google it and find out quite a bit.

Vicky

Hello Kaylene,

Mecca is a city in Saudi-Arabia, and it's sacred to Muslims, who will go there for a pilgrimage.

Hmm. I wonder if I picked the right words in English, let me see what my encyclopedia says...

"Mecca (Arabic, Makkah; ancient Macoraba), city in western Saudi Arabia, capital of Al Ḩijāz (Hejaz) Province, near Jiddah. Situated in a narrow valley surrounded by the barren hills of the Sirat Mountains, Mecca is a picturesque city of boulevards, shops, open-air markets, and stone houses. Its location on several trade routes has made the city commercially important since ancient times.

Mecca is the birthplace of the prophet Muhammad, founder of Islam, and therefore the most sacred of the Muslim holy cities. Each year, during the Islamic month of Dhu al-Hijja, almost 2 million Muslims make a pilgrimage (or hajj) to Mecca. Islamic law strictly forbids non-Muslims from visiting Mecca, and punishment is death for those caught violating this mandate.

Mecca was a religious centre before the time of Muhammad, and several holy sites within the sacred precincts of al-Haram had religious significance in pre-Islamic times.

The city is first mentioned by the Egyptian geographer Ptolemy, who in the 2nd century ad called it Makoraba. From the time of Muhammad, Mecca was besieged on various occasions. It was taken by the Egyptians in the 13th century. In the 16th century control passed to Turkey. From 1517 the sharifs (descendants of Muhammad through Hasan, son of Muhammad's son-in-law Ali) governed Mecca for the Turks. The latter were driven from the city in 1916 by Grand Sharif Husein ibn Ali, later first king of Al Ḩijāz. In 1924 the city was occupied by Abdul Aziz ibn Saud, then sultan of Najd (Nejd), who made Mecca the religious capital of Saudi Arabia. Population 770,000 (1995 estimate)."

Karoliina

What a weird coincidence. I met a guy named Muhammad earlier today. And a lady came up to me and started to talk about a girl named Mecca. So I mentioned Medina and pilgrimages.
I think children are quite perceptive. Not too long ago I overheard a small child discussing Jesus and the cross. And his mother was a bit weirded out because she was not religious.

"Not too long ago I overheard a small child discussing Jesus and the cross."

--> I know what she was doing in her last lifetime....

How interesting...please keep us posted. Reading what the little girl had said reminded me of the day Kade said " I came from North Dakota!" These little ones sure surprise us.