After hall after hall of beauty in the Haram, we saw peaking between the columns this huge black velvet cube structure. As we got closer my heart stopped in delight and wonderment. I had to keep repeating to myself, 'It's the Kaaba, THE KAABA!' because it looked so different from any pictures or ideas I had about it. It was so much bigger and the velvet so much blacker, much more beautiful than I had imagined. There were hundreds of people walking around the Kaaba together on the marble floor. Around them were people praying and sitting on carpets and around that was the entire 2 floor Haram structure. Words can never describe anyone's feelings of seeing the Kaaba for the first time with their own eyes. All I can think of is that it would be the same feeling one might have when first entering jannah and seeing its delights.