The History of “Makkah”

Makkah! The City Of Dreams 💓

Are you planning for the Hajj or Umrah? or looking for the Cheap Hajj Packages 2021 or Umrah Packages All Inclusive for Family, Group, or Leisure Umrah?  Avail 25% exclusive discount on all Hajj and umrah Packages from 3 Star to 5 Star and enjoy your journey to the house of Allah in complete peace and convenience. We proud to be the best and professional Hajj and Umrah  travel agent to make sure you travel to holiest places a hassle-free. From our 3 to 5 Star Hajj and Umrah Packages, and December Umrah Package to Ramadan Umrah Packages

Makkah is a country in a valley that is not cultivated. It is overlooked by the mountains of Jarad, and its climate increases in harshness. It has no water other than Zamzam water. It is a well dug, and other wells are dug by homeowners. As for running water and abundant eyes, as we see in other places, it is not It has a presence in this sense there, and everything that used to happen torrents, they may be heavy and strong, they descend on them from the reefs of the hills and mountains, causing heavy damage and great losses, and they may reach the sanctuary and affect it, and the houses may fall, so the torrents will be a curse, no mercy to help And help the people of the Sacred House.

Therefore, the land of Makkah was not fit to be a land of palm trees, cultivation and love, so its inhabitants had to import what they needed from the parties and abroad, and to be satisfied in their lives by living what they earned from the pilgrims, and to add to that a trade that would help and enrich them, and guarantee them their livelihood, and safety and security for them. Their lives are not greedy for them, nor do they make their life upset: “And when Abraham said, Lord, make this a safe country, and give his people the fruits.”

The credit for the survival of Makkah and the survival of its people there is due to its geographical location, for it is a knot in which the caravans coming from South Arabia want the Levant, or the one coming from the Levant wants southern Arabia, which was necessary to rest in this place, so that its men separate from themselves The dust of travel, and in order to gain the livelihood in it, then its people soon quote from the men of the caravans the secret and benefit of travel, so they traveled themselves in the form of caravans, which are responsible for transporting trade to the people of Makkah and other merchants from Makkah Al-Mukarramah.

When the sixth century AD, the merchants of Makkah monopolized trade in Western Arabia, and they controlled the movement of transport on the important roads linking Yemen with the Levant and Iraq.

The House has great merit over the people of Makkah, and thanks to him, people from all over the world visit it to this day for pilgrimage to it. The house was known as the "Kaaba"; Because it is cube on the creation of the kabba and it is called: “The Old House,” “Qadis,” and “Bader,” and the Kaaba was also known as the “Old Village”.

And Makkah has a mountain overlooking it, it is called: "Abu Qubais mountain". Some news people mentioned that it was called "Abu Qubays", a man of blacksmith, because he was the first to build it, and he was called "Al-Amin" because the pillar was a warehouse there, and in front of it another mountain, and between the two mountains A valley in which Mecca grew and sprang up, and became confined between two chains of heights.

The people inhabited Mount Abu Qubais before they settled in Taha Makkah. This is because it is a high place and there is no danger to the one who lives in it from drowning in torrents, and it was inhabited by the "Banu Jarham", and the news people mention that he was called Qubais "Qubais bin Shalakh", a man who dragged them, who was in the days of "Amr Ibn Madad, and it appears that he was One of the holy sites of the ignorant people, for the hermits of Mecca and its ascetics and those who used to be tempted, adorned and feared among its people in the Jahiliyyah, would ascend and perform i'tikaf in it. Perhaps it was the shrine of the wealthy class of the people of Mecca before the exodus of the "Quraysh" to the valley, and its inhabitants were the Sacred Mosque surrounding the house.

 

It appears from the silence of the news people about the reference to the presence of atm or forts in Makkah to defend it, that this safe city was not with forts and towers, nor a wall to protect it from the possibility of the invasion of the Arabs or any enemy to it, and it appears that this was because Mecca was not a few days ago Qusay is in this valley where the house is concentrated. Rather, it was on the heights overlooking it.

As for the valley, it was a safe sanctuary covered with trees that had grown in torrents and the nature looked after it. On the paths, they resisted the enemy and the invasion from them, and thus it becomes difficult for those who covet them to reach them, and then he is forced to retreat from them, so nature protected them by itself and took care of them with these mountain heads that it set up on the outskirts of valleys and roads. And he brought some of the people who used to inhabit the phenomena to descend the valley, what remained of the virtue of dwelling in the outlooks of Makkah, i.e. on the heights, he carries out the mission of Al-Ashhaban Abu Qubays, which is the mountain overlooking the Safa, which is between the letter Ajyad Al-Saghir supervising Al-Safa to the endosperm that follows the service. And it was called in the Jahiliyyah al-Amin, and the other wood, the mountain, which is called the Red, and it was called in the Jahiliyyah al-A'araf, and it was the mountain whose face overlooked the Qaaq'an.