According to ancient Arabian traditions, when Adam and Eve were cast from Paradise they fell to different parts of the earth; Adam on a mountain on the island of Serendip, or Sri Lanka, and Eve in Arabia, on the border of the Red Sea near the port of Jeddah.
For many years Adam and Eve wandered separate and lonely about the earth In search for each other
Finally, in consideration of their penitence and wretchedness, God permitted them to come together again on Mt Arafah, near the present city of Mecca (previously called Becca or Bakkah, meaning narrow valley).
At Jabal Rahmah they cried for 12 years asking forgiveness from God.
Adam then prayed to God that a shrine might be granted to him similar to that at which he had worshipped in Paradise. Adam's prayers were answered and a shrine was built. (This is a pre-Islamic legend and the Koran, the Islamic Holy Scripture, says nothing whatsoever of Adam’s connection with Mecca or of a shrine he prayed at).
Adam is said to have died and been buried in Mecca and Eve in Jeddah by the sea which still bears her name, jiddah, meaning maternal ancestor in Arabic.
God knows better.
2 comments:
Awt: The last time I was there, the mambu (neem) trees were approximately 3 feet tall.
yes, our sons and daughters will not realise that arafah was really once an arid desert
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