Yoenz's posts with tag: yemen
|  | Yemen is the ancient country. This place is a mountainous area in the far southwest of Arabia, to the east of which are Hadramawt, Mahrah and Oman. Here is located the highest peak in the Arabian Peninsula.
Sana'a is the capitol of Yemen. Its the ancient city in Arab penisula.
The famous thing in Yemen is "Qat" (Catha edulis). Qat is a flowering plant.Chewing qat is one of the most common and deeply-entrenched past-times in Yemen. A high number of people are addicted to it. They feel that it fills them up with energy and vitality. In fact, it has developed into a psychological belief; "No Qat, no energy, and hence no work, study or whatever else."
Qat is the power house of energy and activity. This is because it contains some intoxicating matter. It is noticeable that this habit is not merely restricted to men, for women and young boys chew. In some places where qat grows considerably even children chew.
Yemen has the Ancient story about the Sabaean (Queen Sheba) and Sulaiman (Solomon). The famous story involving him and the Queen of Yemen we can find from Qur'an (27:23) to (27:44).
The Qur'an never mentioned the Queen of Sheba by name, though Arab sources name her Bilqis. The story is similar to the one in the Bible. The Qur'anic narrative has Solomon getting reports of a kingdom ruled by a queen whose people worship the sun. He sends a message inviting her to come to him in submission. She replied with a gift after consulting her people. He replied threatening an invasion. Then one of the jinn servants of Solomon, proposed to bring him the throne of Sheba 'in the twinkling of an eye'(27:40). The queen arrives at his court, and she is being shown her throne and when she entered his crystal palace she accepts Abrahamic monotheism and worshipping God alone.
All pictures were taken on March 2005 during my trip to Maarib for some job. |
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