Zamzam

[ahmadfaruq]

The Zamzam well, also within Masjid al-Haram, is in a room opposite the corner of hajar-i-aswad and fourteen and a half meters away from the corner, and has a stone curb 1.9 meters high. Its diameter is two and a half meters long, and its depth is thirty meters. The room, built by Sultan Abd-al Hamid Khan I, who also had the Beylerbeyi Mosque built in Istanbul, has a floor covered with marble, sloping near the walls, and ending in gutters at the feet of the walls. The gutters are of such competent work that they do not let any water ooze into the well. The mouth of the well is about one meter and half above their level. This work of art, a valuable keepsake of history, was barbarously destroyed in 1383 [1963 A.D.] They lowered the mouth of the well and an area of several meters around it to a level several meters below the earth's surface.

[ahmadfaruq]

It is mustahab to drink Zamzam after the farewell tawaf. With hundreds of thousands of hajjis drinking the Zamzam, washing themselves with it, and taking lots of it to their countries, the water in the well cannot be exhausted. And now everyday the water has been pumped out day and night with a machine and a large-hose pipe, but it still does not seem to be exhaustible

[ottoman]

ahmadfaruq said:

The Zamzam well, also within Masjid al-Haram, is in a room opposite the corner of hajar-i-aswad and fourteen and a half meters away from the corner, and has a stone curb 1.9 meters high. Its diameter is two and a half meters long, and its depth is thirty meters. The room, built by Sultan Abd-al Hamid Khan I, who also had the Beylerbeyi Mosque built in Istanbul, has a floor covered with marble, sloping near the walls, and ending in gutters at the feet of the walls. The gutters are of such competent work that they do not let any water ooze into the well. The mouth of the well is about one meter and half above their level. This work of art, a valuable keepsake of history, was barbarously destroyed in 1383 [1963 A.D.] They lowered the mouth of the well and an area of several meters around it to a level several meters below the earth's surface.

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