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Prepared by fereidoun.dejahang@ntlworld.comDr F.Dejahang, BSc CEng, BSc (Hons) Construction Mgmt, MSc, MCIOB, .MCMI, PhD

Noah and the Ark-The Temple at ShebaAd, Iram, and Ubar (The People of Thamud)

من فهل آية ترکناها لقد وآيه( قمر، سوره (15مدّکر

داشتيم» محفوظ را کشتی آن ما وکه کيست پس شود، عبرت آيت تا

گيرد؟ پند

Surat Al-Qamar (The Moon) - سورةالقمر

And We left it as a sign, so is there any who will remember?

Surat Al-Qamar (The Moon) - (54 )سورة القمر

Surat Al-Qamar (The Moon) - سورة القمر

Surat Al-`Ankabūt (The Spider) - سورة العنكبوت

Noah and the Ark

Surat Hūd (Hud) - سورةهود

Surat Hūd (Hud) - سورة هود

! « : ای و بر فرو را آبت زمین، ای شد گفته و ! کار و نشست فرو آب و کن خودداری آسمان،

) ( ) پهلو ) جودی، کوه دامنه بر کشتی و یافت پایان »: ) قوم ) باد دور شد گفته هنگام، این در و گرفت؛

)! خدا ) رحمت و نجات و سعادت از »ستمگر

Noah and the Ark

The Temple at Sheba

Surat Saba' (Sheba) - سورةسبإ

The Temple at Sheba

Ad, Iram, and Ubar

Surat Fuşşilat (Explained in Detail) - سورة فصلت

Ad, Iram, and Ubar

Surat Ash-Shu`arā' (The Poets) - سورة الشعراء

Ad, Iram, and Ubar

ThamudThe glorious Qur’ an mentions Thamud but no

one knew about it during the period of the Quranic revelation which is the existence of the “Thamud” civilization.

People of Thamud were corrupted, so Allah (SWT) destroyed it.

This civilization was characterized by carving houses in mountains.

This phenomenon was rare in the Arabian Peninsula.

These buildings, that are thousands of years old, were discovered recently.

Surat Fuşşilat (Explained in Detail) - سورة فصلت

“Do not enter except that you are weeping, for this was a place of (divine) punishment.”

Surat Ash-Shu`arā' (The Poets) - سورة الشعراء

Surat Hūd (Hud) - سورةهود

“Do not enter except that you are weeping, for this was a place of (divine) punishment.”

Footnotes:

Ubar[5] Around A.D. 300, a city called Ubar—a

bustling center along the frankincense trade routes of ancient Arabia - mysteriously disappeared.

According to legend, the people of Ubar became greedy and corrupt, refusing to change their ways. To punish them, God destroyed the city and erased all roads leading to it.

Ubar was lost for thousands of years, but the legend lived on in Bedouin campfire stories, the Quran, and Arabian Nights.

UbarMany archaeologists believed the legend of

Ubar was more than a tale, but searches for the lost city came up empty.

That is, until the 1990s when NASA satellites and radar aided the hunt. NASA’s help proved to be the key to locating Ubar.

Images from Landsat and SPOT (Satellite Pour l‘Observation de la Terre) remote sensing satellites showed tracks through the desert, identified as old caravan routes.

UbarThese tracks converged at the village Al

Shisr in the southwestern corner of Oman. An expedition followed the tracks to the

virtual “X” in the sand and began digging. Discoveries of ancient pottery shards from distant lands, frankincense burners, and remains of a fortress confirmed the archaeologists’ suspicions—Ubar was real and its demise could be explained.

UbarIndeed, the legend was right: Ubar met a

catastrophic end. Excavation revealed a giant limestone cavern beneath the fortress.

The city most likely was destroyed when a large portion of it collapsed into the chamber below.

Today, excavations continue to discover more about life along the frankincense road over 4,000 years ago. (by Marisa Larson, National Geographic Magazine, http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0304/feature2/index.html)

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