Zamzam, Facts & Lies
Kamal F Ishak
The Well of Zamzam, or just Zamzam, is located, 20 m (66 ft) east of the Ka’ba, the holiest place in Islam. Zamzam water has no colour or smell, it is alkaline to some extent and it has a distinct taste similar to seawater.
According to Islamic belief, it is miraculous water.
(Ibn Abbas) The Prophet said: The best water on the face of the earth is the water of Zamzam; it is a kind of food and a healing from sickness. (Sahih).
(Ibn Abbas) The “Messenger of Allah” had said: Zamzam water is for whatever one intends to drink for. When one drinks it to be healed, Allah heals him; when one drinks it to be full, Allah makes him full; and when one drinks it to quench his thirst, Allah quenches it. (Ahmad) - (Ibn-Majah).
(Wahb Ibn Munabbah, an ex Jewish Rabbi Muslim) I swear by Allah, Zamzam water is mentioned in the Book of Allah as good water, beverage of righteous, tasty food, and heal of all illnesses. (AZRAQI).
Shame on you former Jewish, there is no mention of Zamzam in the Torah, the Book of God, not even in the Koran, the book of Muhammad’s Allah!
Nobody heard actually about someone healed when drinking water of Zamzam.
We have to prove that water of Zamzam has a bad taste.
(Baladhuri) The prophet preached some of the idolaters. Some of them said to him “We shall not believe in you (O Muhammad), until you cause a spring to gush forth from the earth for us (see Sura XVII, v. 90), as the water of Zamzam is very salty. (Genealogies of the Nobles, vol. 1, p. 164).
(WAQIDI) NAFI’E heard Khalid QASRY said addressing the people of Mecca: O people! Who is the greatest? The Caliph or The Messenger? If you do not know, Allah preferred the Caliph, ... He gave Abraham bad salty water (Zamzam), while He gave the Caliph fine sweet water; he meant the well dug by him of which water was transferred to a basin of leather placed to the side of Zamzam to show its quality with respect to Zamzam. (The Beginning and the End) - (Annals of Tabari) - (News Mecca) etc.
(Abu ‘Asim NABIL) Khalid brought water to Mecca. He installed a basin aside of Zamzam well, and he used to say: I brought you sweet water, which is not similar to that of the nest of beetles, meaning Zamzam well.(Biographies of the most noble persons in Islam).
He used to call Zamzam well as the “Nest of Scarabs” (i.e. beetles). (Aghani, vol. 22).
People were bathing in Zamzam well.
(Ibn Abbas) Abbas, the uncle of the Prophet, who was in charge of Zamzam water distribution, was sadly upset because a noble man made a bath in the well. He said: I do not allow it for the bather, for drinking and for ablution it is permitted! (AZRAQI).
(Ibn-UYAYNA) Abbas found a man, who put off his clothes, was taking a bath in Zamzam well, so he prohibited taking bathes in Zamzam to preserve the Grand Mosque from despicable acts, i.e. uncovering intimate parts and so on, as common people usually do when they bathe into Zamzam well, and is likely to avoid contamination of Zamzam of residuals of sexual coitus and other impurities.. (Jurisprudential rulings of Zamzam water).
(A’RAJ) I saw Ibn Abbas hanging his legs down in Zamzam water. (News of the Abbasid State, unknown author, p. 31).
(Ibn ‘Abbas) “I gave the Prophet Zamzam water to drink whilst he was standing,” (reported by al-Bukhari, 3/492)
(Anas) The “Messenger of Allah” went to Zamzam well, took a bucket of water from it, he drank some water, then spat inside the remaining water, then he poured it in Zamzam. (News of the fruity Mecca, the Prophet said to drink).
What a dirt!
(Ibn Abbas) The “Messenger of Allah” asked for some water. Abbas said to his son: Go to your mother, and bring good water for the “Messenger of Allah” to drink. The Prophet said: No, give me water from Zamzam well. Abbas said: Oh “Messenger of Allah”, they wash their hands and legs in it. The Prophet insisted, and so he drank water of Zamzam. Then he went to the well, and he said to operators: Work, you are on the good job. Then he said: I would like to put the rope of water bucket on my shoulder to work with you. (Major Sunan of Bayhaqi).
(Ibn Abbas) The “Messenger of Allah” said: The evident difference between hypocrites and us is that they never feel fed up drinking Zamzam water. (Sunan Ibn Majah).
People despised drinking Zamzam water!
Why?
(Abbas) I said to the “Messenger of Allah”: We wish to sweep out Zamzam, as in it there are some of these JINAN, meaning small snakes. So the Prophet ordered that they should be killed. (Sahih Muslim. Book 41, n. 5231).
(Engineer Yahya Koshak) Any underground water springing from that place gains mineral elements of the area, and takes on the characteristics of Zamzam water.
It is known that a sample of Zamzam water was analyzed in London. The results were published in the “Medical Journal”, edition of the 30th of June 1894. The water of Zamzam was found “not suitable for drinking” due to the presence of solid impurities exceeding amount allowed. The report stated that the amount of water of Zamzam well is very little, not enough for all the pilgrims. We are speaking here about a few thousands of Pilgrims at the end of the nineteenth century, not to talk about the millions of people in the twenty-first century.
However, Muslims claim that Zamzam water is a perpetual water stream, which never dries up!
(Ibn 'Abbas) The Prophet said: May Allah bestow his mercy upon Hagar (the mother of Ishmael), had she let go (the water of Zamzam) it would have become a spring rather than a well whose water shall never dry. (Ahmad)
Books of Islamic history relate that the water of Zamzam is an everlasting spring that will not expire until the Day of Judgment. They also report that all waters will seep away before Judgment Day except the water of Zamzam.
(Dahhak) Allah will remove all water before doomsday, and all water trickle away except for Zamzam water!
The second Caliph Omar ibn al-Khattab closed the well due to the lack of water, to be saved for the pilgrims.
(Ibn Abu Malika) Ibn-Safwan said: Oar ordered to close the well of Zamzam between the seasons (pilgrimage periods). (FAKIHY, News of Mecca, Islam period).
(Ibn Dinar) A Negro felt down in Zamzam well, and he died, so Ibn Abbas ordered to obstruct its sources, and the well was dried. (Bayhaqi, book of Purity).
Note the word "dried".
Khalid QASRY, the ruler of Iraq for account of Caliph Walid, dispraised Zamzam, calling it “nest of beetles”. He dug some wells outside Mecca, and he induced people to bless water of his wells. (Biography HALABIYA).
(Ibn QASIM) The Caliph Sulaiman wrote to Khalid QASRY ordering him to dig a well of sweet water, to be supplied between Zamzam and Ka’ba, better of the MUCUS of Zamzam. Khalid made the basin which was entitled to him, near the hill THABYR, from witch tubes of lead carried sweet water to the “Sacred” Mosque, sparkling in fountain of marble between Zamzam and Ka’ba. Khalid ordered to put a pulpit in the face of the Ka’ba, from which hen said: Oh people, O give thanks to Allah and to your caliph who allow you drinking sweet san fresh water instead of the bad salty water that nobody drink but obliged, meaning Zamzam. The water was flowing from the fountain inside a channel of lead going out in a place for ablution near the Safa hill, to be discharged after that in a pool in the market place. At the Abbasid Caliphate, this hydraulic system was demolished. (AZRAQI).
(Asma'i) I was informed that Khalid QASRY dispraised Zamzam, saying: It is said that Zamzam never exude or dry, but in name of Allah, it is exuded and dried; now you Caliph created for you a channel to Mecca. (Ibn ASAKER, vol. 16 p: 160) - (many other sources).
Again.
(ATA’) An Abyssinian felt in Zamzam well and he died, so Ibn al-Zubayr ordered the well to be exuded. When discharged, it was seen that water is flowing from a hole towards the Black Stone. (Explanation of the Meanings of the Traditions, TAHAWI).
Here, the well was not contaminated according to Muhammad’s traditions!
(Ibn Abbas) The prophet said: Do not consider defiled a dead person, because the Muslim is not defile dead or alive! (Mustadrak).
Another time, what a dirt!
Worse than that, what happened to the Zamzam well during the time of QARAMITES, year 929 C.E.. Toward the end of 317 January 930 C.E.
(Ibn KATHIR) The pilgrims in Mecca were taken unaware on the "day of tarwiyya" the starting day of the Hajj period by the enemy of Allah Abu TAHIR al-Qarmati and his huge army. They entered armed and on horseback into the Mosque, purring those circumambulating to the sword all pilgrims. They killed altogether about 30,000 people in the “Sacred “ area in Mecca and in the ravines around the city. The people were fleeing, trying to be attached to the draperies of the Ka’ba seeking security, that was useless.
Abu TAHIR went to the venerated door of the Ka'ba and tore it out while he cried out: It’s me; by Allah it's me. He creates creatures and I exterminate them. Then he shouted at the pilgrims: You Asses! You say that whoever enters here shall be secure (Sura II, v. 97). So where is the security when we have done what we have done?
Then he ordered to bury the dead in the well of Zamzam, and the demolition of the dome of Zamzam (beginning and end).
No need to narrate more.
Rain and floods are the sources of Zamzam water, as written in Islamic history books.
(Mohammed Hamadhani) The water in Zamzam well continued lacking, so in years 223 and 224 of Hegira the well was practically dry. Nine cubits were removed around from its circumference (i.e. to enlarge the diameter of the lower part of the well). Fortunately, Allah sent rains and floods in the year 225 of Hegira, so the well was re-charged. (Geography of YAQUOT).
Zamzam well was dried for two consecutive years. The reason was the lack of rain.
(AZRAQI) Zamzam well is deep sixty cubits from the top to the bottom. Near its bottom there are three openings: one in the direction of the black stone, the second is appointed towards Abu-Qubays mountain, and the last lies towards the Marwa hill. The water in Zamzam well continued lacking, so in years 223 and 224 of Hegira the well was practically dry. Nine cubits were removed around from its circumference (i.e. to enlarge the diameter of the lower part of the well). Fortunately, Allah sent rains and floods in the year 225 of Hegira, so the well was re-charged.
Previously, the well was enlarged 3 times due to scarcity of its water, so that a man from TA’IF called Ibn MUSHIR, who worked inside the well, have said: I prayed in its bottom. Forty cubits of its depths is structured with stone masonry, while the remaining portion, 29 cubits, is merely excavated. (AZRAQI, p. 439).
Zamzam dried more than once, and a man prayed upon its bottom!
(Abu Mohammed al-KHUZA’I) … Mecca suffered heavy Rains in the years 279 and 280 of Hegira, so its valley was inundated with floods. Zamzam water rose up inside the well to a level I've never seen before, nor heard about who stated that he saw it as well. In these two years, it discharged a very sweet water, better than the water that the people of Mecca used to drink, .... (History of Mecca, AZRAQI).
Then, the source of Zamzam well is rainwater.
The people of Mecca did and do not drink the water of Zamzam for its bad taste.
Why?
(Engineer Yahya Koshak) ... Any water stems from this place is gaining Zamzam water from the bait and mineral elements that are mixed with water feature.
Zamzam well is located inside the Mosque, at about 20 Meters east of the Ka’ba. Well of Zamzam now is beneath the surface of the ground.
(Engineer Yahya Koshak) In the year 1980, I was charged by the Saudi Government to supervise the cleansing and sterilization of the well of Zamzam. We installed pumps to discharge all the water out the well, allowing us to inspect, to take accurate measurements and to determine the main sources of water to wells.
… The well depth is about 30 meters. The upper 13.5 m of the well is excavated in the compressed sediments of alluvium from the valley (Wadi) Ibrahim, which don’t allow water to flow out. Most of the alluvial section is lined with stone masonry except for the uppermost 1m, which has a reinforced concrete collar. Then lies a 0.5 m thick highly permeable weathered rock; this section is lined with stone. The lower section, 17.0 m is in the underlying igneous rock through which the water flows through fractures in the rock, where it gains its high mineral contents.
... The internal Diameter varies between 1.10 meters and 2.66 meters. (The Book “Zamzam”).
This was after the turbulent events in the Grand Mosque in November 1979. Dead persons were fallen inside the well, while groundwater was accumulated around its bore. The submersible pumps removed the water of the well. The source of the water in the well was seen, and an estimation of well capacity was done stopping pumps for a few minutes,
It was possible to dry the “holy” Zamzam well with infidels’ pumps!
(Engineer Yahya Koshak) The main source of Zamzam is an opening tending toward the Ka’ba. It is 45 cm long and 30 cm wide and slopes downwards. It supplies the main volume of Zamzam. The second main source is a broad gash measuring 70 cm long and 30 cm wide, that divides into two openings within. It lies in the direction of Mecca heights. There are also secondary sources. These are small outlets between the stones at the junction of the built-and-hewn-parts of the well. There are five openings in the one-meter gap separating the two main sources. Besides, there are 21 inlets distributed from near the first main source that opens in the direction of Abu Qubays mountain, and the Safa / Marwa hills, to the second main source. These inlets are at different levels and they discharge little amounts of water. (Saudi Gazette, Monday, 31 August 2009)
Engineer / Yahya is a Saudi Islamic Sheikh, who worked for the Saudi Government, therefore it is not neutral reference, so we must review the data he gave.
He asserted that the natural source of water of Zamzam is rain, and historical books of Muslims prove that.
(Eng / Yahya Koshak) ... but when it rains on areas surrounding Mecca, such as TA’IF and other, water shows a great increase in the well of Zamzam. This means that the primary source of the well is rainfalls on the area surrounding Mecca and on the rocky cracks of these mountains. In my book (Zamzam) there is a photographic figure delivered by the satellites, which I attached to analysis showing that all of these rocky cracks are leading water to the well of Zamzam. (Published by Arabic site on Thursday, April 13, 2006 C.E..)
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Average rainfalls on the TAIF area is 119 mm per year. The region has an area of 170 square kilometres, is the home of about 560 thousand people.
It is worth mentioning, that the engineer / Yahya Koshak stated that the average annual rainfall in the region is between 21 to 83 mm annually. The record is the precipitation of 117 mm of rain was only once.
However, we will use the global figure above, which is 119 mm of rain per year, despite the recognition of the severe overdoing it.
Annual rainfall = 20.23 million cubic meters.
We consider now that one person consumes 300 litres of water per day, which is very low estimate.
So the annual consumption of the area is 53.76 million cubic meters.
This means that the rainwater that feeds the Zamzam is not enough for the consumption for the TA’IF region only, so its needs are satisfied by supplementary supply from seawater desalination plant.
85% of the rainfall in TA’IF is concentrated in month of September, and then it is overflowing to Zamzam in that month only. The water amount stored from this rainwater flow from TA’IF zone is not sufficient for the consumption of more than 3 millions pi