 Although related to Hebrew "shekhinah", the spiritual state is not an "indwelling of the Divine Presence" The ordinary Arabic use of the word's root is "the sense of abiding or dwelling in a place".A story in Tafsir and Isra'iliyyat literature relates how Ibrahim and Isma'il, when looking for the spot to build the Kaaba found sakīnah.Newby writes that it was like a breeze "with a face that could talk", saying "build over me."