Safa and Marwa

Safa and Marwa are two small hills now positioned in the Great Mosque of Mecca in Saudi Arabia named the Masjid Al-Haram. Muslims journey back and forth between them seven times, at some stage in the ritual pilgrimages of Hajj and Umrah. In Islamic culture, Abraham was commanded with the aid of God to go away his spouse Hagar and their little one son, Ishmael, on my own in the barren region between Safa and Marwa. When their provisions were exhausted, Hagar went in search of assist or water. While Hagar become on either hillside, she changed into able to see Ishmael and realize he become secure.

However, when she become in the valley among the hills she become unable to see her son, and might hence run whilst inside the valley and stroll at a normal tempo while on the hillsides. Hagar traveled backward and forward among the hills seven instances within the sizzling warmness before returning to her son. When she arrived, she discovered that a spring had broken forth from where the archangel Gabriel hit the ground together with his wing as each sustenance and a reward for Hagar's persistence. This spring is now known as the Zamzam Well.