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Djebel el Hadid
Jebel el Hadid, Jbel Lahdid
The mountain of Iron
Hanno the Navigator (500 BC) exploited iron deposit in Jbel Hadid.
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Hiking tour to visit
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Winter - floods from oueds.
Summers occationally hot and windy.
Beautiful forested landscape and scenery.Argan and Thuja trees.
Plants. Birds.
Clear days you can see Had Draa, Ain Lahjar,Moulay
Bouzerktoun, Bihiba, Akarmoud and the Atlantic Ocean
at a distance from this summit of Djebel Hadid.
Bring water bottles because
you can only find rainwater to drink on the top.
The site has also a mosque
and a visitors room.
A family is living just near on the north side of the shrine. There
you can find the Attendant Abdelkader. He is looking after
the old buildings,without any funds, invite visitors for tea and
and give food to the Regraga
when they once a year, visit the Tomb Sidi Yacoub
on their douar.
The buildings is in need of some restauration.
.July 2011
There are a lot of wild boars but you see
them only in the night. They eat the crops cultivated on the hillsides.
Hiking
Djebel Hadid
Cornfields at the hills of Djebel
Hadid
It is said that:
Sidi Yacoub was a fqi -teacher of Al Koran from Faida a village south of Djebel Hadid. When he was ready to die, he asked his family to bury him on the hilltop where he lies now. He also said that someone else would come in his place. 300 years later Sidi Ali Saih came and he is buried in the shrine beside Sidi Yacoub.
It is also said that this place has been in use for over 900 years. This site could be an ancient place of worship before the Islamization of the region Chiadma.
The grave should be aligned perpendicular to
the Qiblah (i.e. Mecca).
The body is placed in the grave without a casket, lying on its
right side, and facing the Qiblah.
The Qiblah (Arabic:"direction"), also transliterated as Qibla, Kiblah or Kibla, is the direction that should be faced when a Muslim prays during salah. Most mosques contain a wall niche, known as mihrab, that indicates the Qiblah.
Shrine; a structure or
place memorializing a person or religious concept.
Tomb: A tomb is a repository for the remains of
the dead. It is generally any structurally enclosed interment space
or burial chamber, of varying sizes.
Learn more in:
The name of God, Allah,
painted on the entrance door to the tomb of Sidi Yacoub
and Sidi Ali Saih.
Shrine of Sidi Jacoub and Sidi Ali Saih
Koubba: Koubbèh (from Arabic koubba = dome, cupola). - Monument erected on the grave of a revered figure, or in a place where he stayed. The koubba, which occur mainly in North Africa, consisting of a cubic part surmounted by a spherical dome or arched, sometimes decorated with a crescent, and their size rarely exceeds 4 meters square, and some of them present in their interior a little room where you can find shelter.
Common Islamic burial rituals
Burial rituals should normally take place as soon as possible and include:
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Bathing the dead body, except in extraordinary circumstances as in battle of Uhud.
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Enshrouding dead body in a white cotton or linen cloth.
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Funeral prayer
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Burial of the dead body in a grave
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Positioning the deceased so that the head is faced towards Mecca (Makkah Al-Mukarramah).
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External links Sidi
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