UNBELIEVEABLE MADINAH AL MUNAWWARA
…the east of Haram ended at the site of the proposed
railway station…journeying a little further east, as seen on the above google
image, one is soon in the haunting volcanic landscape of al-Harra
al-Sharqiya…the huge black ink-like splotched area…
After
the evening prayer, according to one account quoted by Johann Ludwig
Burckhardt, “a fire burst out in the direction of al-Hijaz; it resembled a vast
city with a turreted and battlemented fort, in which men appeared drawing the
flame about, as it were, whilst it roared, burned and melted like a sea
everything that came in its way. Presently a red and bluish stream, bursting
from it, ran close to al-Madinah, and at the same time the city was fanned by a
cooling zephyr from the same direction.”
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