[21] Based on legend, the exercise of using lamps and candles in mosque started out with Tamim al-Dari who lit a lamp he introduced from Syria in the Prophet's Mosque in Medina. The Umayyad caliph Al-Walid II was known to get made use of candles within the courtroom in Damascus, when the Abbasid caliph al-Mutawakkil was stated to own expended one.2