What if I told you there is a living physical miracle on Earth, would you then believe in God? That’s the question you have to ask yourself before you are told of anything that might be a miracle. What is your mindset? If something clearly cannot be explained scientifically, will you dismiss it or as at least consider that something supernatural is at play?

So what is Zamzam? It is water coming from a well in Makkah, Saudi Arabia. As Islamic traditions explain, when Prophet Abraham (peace be upon him) was ordered by God to leave Hajar and his son, Ismail, alone in the middle of the desert, a miracle happened. After his mother was looking tirelessly for people and water, Ibn Abbas, the companion and cousin of Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ), explained that Angel Gabriel hit the ground with his heel and water gushed out.¹ From that moment thousands of years ago, we have the water well today.

So for thousands of years, in the middle of the desert, from the time of Abraham to this day², a water source has been supplying millions and millions of people. When you see the well, or visit Makkah and Madinah and see the countless people drinking the water at any given moment, and contemplate how gallons and gallons of it are being transported throughout the world, it’s incomprehensible. How is any of that possible? To add, to this day, we don’t know the source of it. How is it not linked to another water source? How is the water still coming? Surely, it would have dried up by now… but it hasn’t.

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1. Sahih al-Bukhari 3365.
2. Except a brief period before Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) when the well was lost.