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The Meadows of Arabia
By Nadia El-Awady
El-Baz paused to reflect upon a Prophetic Hadith that gives indication to what science has only recently discovered.
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) as saying, "The Last Hour will not come before wealth becomes abundant and overflowing, so much so that a man takes Zakat out of his property and cannot find anyone to accept it from him, and till the land of Arabia returns to be meadows and rivers."
El-Baz believes that this Prophetic Hadith depicts the cyclic changes in deserts. He believes it also shows that the Arabs were aware that their lands were once green.
The Rub al Khali, the Great Desert of the Arabian Peninsula, and one of the largest Sand Deserts of the world, was once full of meadows with:
~ rivers,
~ lakes,
~ baboons,
~ deer,
~ sheep &
all types of animals, confirmed El-Baz.
"Animals just as those we see in Africa now. Back then it wasn't empty. Back then it was full. Now it's just empty and scary," he said.
Innovation a Must
The water in Middle Eastern Deserts can only solve the region's water scarcity problems, however, if we are innovative and clever, stressed El-Baz.
"That water is in the middle of the desert, 350 km away from Cairo," he said, referring to the water he discovered in Sharq Al-Ouaynat.
There is one of two solutions, he explained. The water could either be transported somehow to the Nile Valley, to be used in agriculture there, or the water could be used in the nearest region to it that has suitable soil for agriculture.
El-Baz expressed his frustration at the fact that none of that is being done now. "There is no innovation, no imagination in the whole Arab world. We've been generally dependent on what is available now, and we don't really try to do something different," he said. "It took me 13 years to convince the Egyptian Government to drill the wells," he added with disappointment.
This one man has done a great deal to guide the Arab World towards the solution of one of its many problems. Now it is up to us to play our role and innovate.
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Nadia El-Awady is IslamOnline.net's Health & Science Page editor. She has a Bachelor's Degree in Medicine from Cairo University and is currently studying for a
Ms in Journalism and Mass Communications at the American University in Cairo.
El-Baz paused to reflect upon a Prophetic Hadith that gives indication to what science has only recently discovered.
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) as saying, "The Last Hour will not come before wealth becomes abundant and overflowing, so much so that a man takes Zakat out of his property and cannot find anyone to accept it from him, and till the land of Arabia returns to be meadows and rivers."
El-Baz believes that this Prophetic Hadith depicts the cyclic changes in deserts. He believes it also shows that the Arabs were aware that their lands were once green.
The Rub al Khali, the Great Desert of the Arabian Peninsula, and one of the largest Sand Deserts of the world, was once full of meadows with:
~ rivers,
~ lakes,
~ baboons,
~ deer,
~ sheep &
all types of animals, confirmed El-Baz.
"Animals just as those we see in Africa now. Back then it wasn't empty. Back then it was full. Now it's just empty and scary," he said.
Innovation a Must
The water in Middle Eastern Deserts can only solve the region's water scarcity problems, however, if we are innovative and clever, stressed El-Baz.
"That water is in the middle of the desert, 350 km away from Cairo," he said, referring to the water he discovered in Sharq Al-Ouaynat.
There is one of two solutions, he explained. The water could either be transported somehow to the Nile Valley, to be used in agriculture there, or the water could be used in the nearest region to it that has suitable soil for agriculture.
El-Baz expressed his frustration at the fact that none of that is being done now. "There is no innovation, no imagination in the whole Arab world. We've been generally dependent on what is available now, and we don't really try to do something different," he said. "It took me 13 years to convince the Egyptian Government to drill the wells," he added with disappointment.
This one man has done a great deal to guide the Arab World towards the solution of one of its many problems. Now it is up to us to play our role and innovate.
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Nadia El-Awady is IslamOnline.net's Health & Science Page editor. She has a Bachelor's Degree in Medicine from Cairo University and is currently studying for a
Ms in Journalism and Mass Communications at the American University in Cairo.
Comments on this journal
So Lynfasi, I am not sure if you will live to see this.
Unless ofcourse you live for thousands of years.....