Noah and the Ark- The Temple at Sheba

1. Noah and the Ark-The Temple at Sheba Ad, Iram, and Ubar(The People of Thamud) Prepared by fereidoun.dejahang@ntlworld.com Dr F.Dejahang, BSc CEng, BSc (Hons) Construction Mgmt, MSc, MCIOB, .MCMI, PhD

2. Surat Al-Qamar (The Moon) - سورة القمر و لقد ترکناها آية فهل من مدّکر(سوره قمر، آيه 15) «و ما آن کشتی را محفوظ داشتيم تا آيت عبرت شود، پس کيست که پند گيرد؟

3. Surat Al-Qamar (The Moon) - سورة القمر 54:15 And We left it as a sign, so is there any who will remember?

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

5. Surat Al-Qamar (The Moon) - سورة القمر

6. Surat Al-Qamar (The Moon) - سورة القمر

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

8. Surat Al-`Ankabūt (The Spider) - سورة العنكبوت 29:40

9. Surat Al-`Ankabūt (The Spider) - سورة العنكبوت 29:40

10. Noah and the Ark

11. Noah and the Ark

12. Noah and the Ark

13. Surat Hūd (Hud) - سورة هود

14. Surat Hūd (Hud) - سورة هود و گفته شد: «ای زمین، آبت را فرو بر! و ای آسمان، خودداری کن! و آب فرو نشست و کار پایان یافت و (کشتی) بر (دامنه کوه) جودی، پهلو گرفت؛ و (در این هنگام،) گفته شد:» دور باد قوم ستمگر (از سعادت و نجات و رحمت خدا!)»

15. Noah and the Ark

16. The Temple at Sheba

17. The Temple at Sheba

18. Surat Saba' (Sheba) - سورة سبإ

19. The Temple at Sheba

20. Ad, Iram, and Ubar

21. Surat Fuşşilat (Explained in Detail) - سورة فصلت

22. Ad, Iram, and Ubar

23. Ad, Iram, and Ubar

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

26. Ad, Iram, and Ubar

27. Ad, Iram, and Ubar

28. Ubar

29. Ubar

30. Thamud • The 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.

31. Surat Fuşşilat (Explained in Detail) - سورة فصلت

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

33. Ubar

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

35. Surat Hūd (Hud) - سورة هود

36. Ubar

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

38. Footnotes:

39. 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.

40. Ubar • Many 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. 

41. Ubar • These 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.

42. Ubar • Indeed, 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)