Video | When people swam around the Kaaba during the 1941 Mecca flood

Arab Weather - Sinan Khalaf - A rare picture that raised many questions about a rainstorm that flooded the courtyard of the Holy Mosque in Mecca, during which people swam around the Holy Kaaba in a land known for its dryness throughout history. This picture, which circulated the world, was revealed by the Bahraini Sheikh “Ali Al-Awadhi”, who appears in it swimming in the courtyard of the mosque, documenting this rare event.

Sheikh Al-Awadi mentioned in a television interview with him before his death, may God have mercy on him, that he was studying in Mecca in 1941 AD, and he was 12 years old at the time, and heavy rains fell that year and continued for two full weeks, day and night, until they turned into torrential floods that swept through all of Mecca.

He continued: On the last day of the rainfall, he, along with his brother, two of his friends, and their teacher, decided to go to the Grand Mosque in Mecca. They found that the water had covered the mosque to a height of approximately 5 to 6 feet.

Everyone stood watching the scene, until he suggested to them the idea of swimming around the Holy House. So he went down with his brother and one of his friends to implement that idea, and they are the ones sitting, as they appear in the picture, on the threshold of the door of the Holy Kaaba.