The Lighthouses of Aad.
Flags built by the people of Aad.
High flags and lighthouses.
Al-Aflaj is the plural of falaj and canals.
Eternal life here depends on water
because it is the secret of existence and life.
Although no one is immortal,
they sought to live forever.
They wanted an eternal life,
so they established an immortal architectural system.
They dug the ground vertically and horizontally
and built lighthouses and towers on top.
They overcame the conditions of nature
and conveyed the secret of life to wherever they wanted.
In the governorate of Al-Aflaj, in the town of Al-Saih, we have two models;
a model for the falaj,
which is the opening between the front teeth.
"And she splits earth in two".
These are not channels, and another model for channels,
which are under the ground and above them are the aqueducts.
All of them come from Ain al-Maliha,
and they are supposed to be called the lakes of the Aflaj, not the eyes of the Aflaj
because they are huge lakes.
Usually, the water spring is the small place from which water flows
whether for canals or natural springs.
These are huge lakes.
Look, this is a falaj, and the plural is aflaj
and channels.
Now, the meaning of the noble verse becomes clear;
the Almighty said: Hood, the prophet of Aad people, Iram tells them
"You build palaces and factories thinking you are immortal".
"You build palaces and factories thinking you are immortal"
The flowing water springs in Al-Aflaj. Pictures published for the first time; Dating back to 1985. Archive of the branch of the General Organization for Irrigation in Al-Aflaj.
Qatatah, a well-known scholar and a scholar of language and interpretation,
says the canals are underground sockets for water.
The south of Riyadh is called Al-Masaneh
the town of Al-Masaneh that has canals, which have disappeared.
It is still called Al-Masaneh, the plural of masnah (factory).
You adopt factories thinking you are immortal.
He did not say you build factories.
There is another interpretation; the factory is the palace.
He said you adopt because they are underground
and the most difficult thing is to adopt because it is one of the most difficult canals
as we have seen in Al-Qassim and Al-Ula.
All the regions of the Arabian Peninsula have water channels.
He said: you adopt palaces and factories thinking you are immortal.
Eternity here depends on water
because it is the secret of existence and the secret of life.
Eid Al-Yahya collected ancient and modern information
and crowned them with verses from the Holy Quran.
He then interpreted some of the words
such as factories
and the unique Iram.
All this paved the way to the truth about the history of the flags and lighthouses of the Al-Aflaj.
The third saying in the interpretation of the Almighty’s saying:
“Have you not seen how your Lord dealt with Aad"?
Iram of the Pillars,
the unique city.
It was mentioned in Al-Majmo` Al-Mughith fi Al-Gharibi fi Al-Qur’an wa Al-Hadith book by Madini
that the meaning of Iram is the flags built by the people of Aad.
Earth flags built by the people of Aad.
Look, dozens of water channels
of different patterns in the area of ​​the Al-Aflaj.
Above each aqueduct, they built a high lighthouse.
Look, this is what remains today. They are still high.
So, how were they when they were first built?
Moreover, their color is white
because all the land of the Al-Aflaj is plaster.
Aram is also a name for white
and that is why the Reem deers,
which are white,
are named Reem because of the white color on their side
and their belly.
They are built of white bricks
and plaster.
Of course, these channels, well, there are underground channels and ordinary channels
with a pattern that is common throughout Saudi Arabia and the Arabian Peninsula,
or even in other areas that are slightly above the ground
like the aqueducts and rooms.
However, here, look high flags and lighthouses.
"In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful. Did you not see what your Lord did to Aad? The unique Iram of the Pillars".
The people of Aad were known for their city Iram
of the Pillars.
These lighthouses are like pillars.
These are sayings, but now we are in the field,
and we interpret based on what we see.
These canals were destroyed a very long time ago.
I believe this happened more than one thousand years ago
because everything was destroyed except for these lighthouses.
As for the town in the middle of Al-Saih,
we are now in Al-Saih, but on the western side,
in the middle of Al-Saih, we can still see the channels
because they were used in late Islamic periods.
However, we can still see their traces at this height.
This is an important saying, Iram of the Pillars.
In Qatif, an orientalist
depicted non-existent channels with columns,
which are the aqueducts
here in Al-Aflaj
or in Al-Qatif to prevent sand.
However, sand does not need such a height.
This is a very high altitude.
Look, not much sand has gathered after hundreds of years.
Perhaps, the height has
many other purposes that need research.
Hills of sand, arranged regularly
known as the lighthouses of the Al-Aflaj,
and beneath them are rectangular openings that look like graves.
Life passed through these openings
and did not leave a place for the scene of death.
In fact, they are a complex architecture.
The succession of times and the accompanying fluctuations of nature
demolished most of these sand towers.
However, what remained turned into another mystery;
how were they built, and what was the purpose behind them?
This has not been discovered yet.
It was mentioned by Ibn Abbad
that Iram is like flags for the people of Aad, looking like graves.
These high lighthouses
above the surface of the earth with a
great height, perhaps this height does not protect against sand and animals.
Two meters by three meters are enough,
but they are thin, ten meters by seven meters. Perhaps, this is an engineering technique invented by the people of Aad
or who succeeded them, including their descendants, Tasm and Jadis, who are the owners of Rass,
perhaps to cool the water because the tower always
works as an air stream to reduce the sulfur percentage most psobably.
When sulfur evaporates, it evaporates
into the channel below. The sulfur evaporates,
then after a while, it becomes odorless.
Sulfur affects agriculture.
These lighthouses have a technique that is not for sand or animals,
and the tower always witnesses a strong ventilation process.
Sahib ibn Abbad attributed them to the people of Aad
and said that their bottom is like graves, and in fact, the aqueducts
are rectangular on a hole like a grave.
It was also mentioned in Al-Hamawi’s book that Al-Saih
says falaj Al-Aflaj
and palms of Bani Jadah and Bani Jadah from Bani Amer.
During the days of the Prophet (peace be upon him) and the Rashidun and the Umayyad Caliphate,
they were in control of the region.
They say that there are many rivers.
The historian of the Al-Aflaj, Sheikh Abdullah Al-Jalalain
says that there are
three hundred and sixty water springs and channels.
This is amazing. The people of Aad
and their descendants from the companions of the Rass
like Tasm and Jadis
were distinguished by a significant technology and intelligence.
They dug channels and built factories.
God told Quraysh,
the people of Aad, and Thamud
"Satan made their deeds seem decorous to them"
"thus he barred them from the way [of Allah], though they used to be perceptive"
They were knowledgeable about life
and smart.
They were knowledgeable about technology
and about the method of withdrawing water from these channels.
And [We destroyed] 'Aad and Thamud, and it has become clear to you from their [ruined] dwellings. And Satan had made pleasing to them their deeds and averted them from the path, and they were endowed with perception.
While traveling in the deserts and cities of Saudi Arabia,
Phillby was astonished by the architecture of the canals of Ain Farzan and Al-Aflaj,
and he even said that the Arabs are not the ones who built them.
Eid Al-Yahya believes that Phillby reached a wrong conclusion
because he compared between the architecture of these canals and simple mud houses.
Moreover, he did not go further in history to validate this comparison.
Al-Yahya believes that the people of Aad were distinguished by the technology of channels
and they exported it to other people
around the Arabian Peninsula.
Therefore, the people of Aad in the Aflaj region were distinguished by the architecture of the water channels,
which are the oldest in the Arabian Peninsula and reached
other nations. Need is the mother of invention. The middle of Najd desertified first,
and drawing water from lakes is easier than
digging later to trace the main origin of water.
They used to build these great lighthouses
and split water channels,
which remain until this very day because of the plaster mixed with mud known as gypsum,
which turns into a solid substance that will remain forever.
So, the people of Aad were distinguished by this architecture
underground,
the factories, thinking they are immortal.
Moreover, the people of Thamud were distinguished by carving mountains
and decorating homes that were used later by other nations.
Therefore, Abdullah Al-Phillby, who is one of the orientalists,
and orientalists have pros and cons.
When he visited the Al-Aflaj, he said that the Arabs cannot adopt this technique
because he came here one fifty years ago before the announcement of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia,
when the economic situation was miserable.
So, he said it is impossible, and he attributed this technique to the Persians
who adopted it, but its origin is here because desertification started from here.
It is said to be the land of palm trees, farms, and flowing rivers;
Al-Aflaj, an ancient city
known by travelers and explorers, and
inhabited by Layla and her beloved crazy Qais.
In this historical city, man searched for the secret of life
and set plans for its investment
and executed them with great skills.