Description

The residents of Makkah Al-Mukarramah, pilgrims, visitors and pilgrims in the past relied on wells to sustain their water needs. The pilgrims carried water to Arafat from distant places, and the poor became ,on the day of Arafat, seek only water, because of its scarcity and dignity. Princess Zubaydah bint Jaafar al-Mansur, the wife of Caliph Harun al-Rashid, who was born in 145 AH, was known for her intelligence, wisdom, generosity, nobility, eloquence, and her love to serve people, especially the poor. She focused most of her attention on urbanization, so she built houses, mosques, water pools and wells along the pilgrimage route from Baghdad to Mecca and made it available for the public benefit (pilgrims and wayfarers). She ordered water channels be dug and then connected to the raindrop areas, bought all the lands in the valley, and destroyed farms. and palm trees, and ordered that a canal be dug for water in the mountains, and Zubaydah and her loyal workers were able to start designing this giant project with advanced technical methods that are equal to the development and progress reached by engineering today, especially in the ability of workers at the time to draw water over that long distance. And through mountainous heights and depressions, valleys and deserts, they worked the flowing levels of the spring and channels with stone and plaster until the water was able to flow through these channels and primitive pumps with ease, until it reached the mosque , The Holy Mosque in Makkah Al-Mukarramah, passing through the holy sites of Mina, Arafat and Muzdalifah, and the traces of water channels and beads still exist to this day in the foothills of the mountains, as if they were done yesterday despite the passage of hundreds of years.