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| Şanli Urfa, City of Prophets |
“From our
hotel room, we had an unobstructed view of Halil-ul-Ruhman,
the city’s holiest site and destination of all pilgrims. It was a lush oasis of
gardens and ponds, accentuated by two beautiful mosques; one venerating the
cave where the prophet Abraham was allegedly born, the other the stuff of
legend.
It was told that the ruling pagan King Nemrud ordered Abraham to renounce
his God, but when he wouldn’t, the King commanded that Abraham be catapulted
into a raging fire at the bottom of a tall cliff. In the spot where Abraham
landed, the fire was transformed into water, and the firewood into fish. A
mosque was built on that site. The fish are considered sacred, and the waters
holy. It is here that pilgrims come to be renewed, and where we intended to
join them.” (Excerpt taken from our book “Walking for Peace, an inner journey”.)
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