#21: Jay Debunks Dr Ally on the purity & efficacy of ZamZam water!

Last month I uploaded a video on Pfanderfilms about the ZamZam well, since I’ve been zeroing in on Mecca. Since then many of you have sent me a video recording done by Dr. Shabbir Ally and and his daughter Dr Safiyyah Ally, concerning the great efficacy of the ZamZam water. Dr. Ally suggested that the water for the well came from surrounding mountains, as well as from rainwater, and that it was this water which fed that 2 million people living in Mecca, as well as the 2 to 3 million pilgrims who came to Mecca every year, coupled with the millions of bottles of water from the ZamZam well which was transported around the Muslim world and sold in their shops, found in almost every Muslim city. And who provided this water? According to Dr. Ally it was Allah himself. Since it was he who provided the original water in the ZamZam well when he miraculously created it for Hagar and Ishmael, it is still he who also continues to provide the water for the whole Muslim world, so that it will never run out.  What’s more, this water is pure, it’s holy, and it harms no one. In fact, Dr. Ally continued to suggest that if used with prayer it can also heal people, providing that we know that Allah himself is the one who provides the actual cure. Jay debunkes much of what Dr. Ally is saying in his video by first of all showing a graph put out by the Ministry of environment, water, and agriculture in Saudi Arabia in 2020, which showed that the sources of water for the major cities in Saudi Arabia came from desalinated plants, 27 of them, situated on the shores of the Red Sea in the West, and the Persian Gulf in the East.  The city of Riyadh received 64% of its water from desalination plants. Medina was dependent on 95% of its water from desalination plants, while Mecca was dependent on whopping 98% of its water from desalination plants situated in Jeddah, on the Red Sea; completely debunking what Dr. Shabbir and Dr. Safiyyah were saying in their video. As to whether the ZamZam water was harmful, Jay pointed to a number of old newspaper articles from the 1800s and the early 1900s which showed just how dangerous the water from the ZamZam well really was: 1881: The Standard Newspaper ran a story on November 18 mentions that 300 people died from cholera which came from the ZamZam well, and the rest of the pilgrims were quarantined. It became so bad that Turkish officials, when inspecting the ZamZam well, noticed it was full of sewage which had filtered into the well from the surrounding city contaminating it and causing a cholera epidemic. The officials suggested giving those who were affected mint lime juice and coffee. If that didn’t work and they began to vomit, they were then left to die. 1901: According to the Chicago Tribune, April 14, the ZamZam well was referred to as the "water of death". Sewage from Mecca was filtering into the well, and pilgrims were filling their bottles with the water, some of which had excrement in it, which caused bubonic plague to break out. 1902: The Birmingham Evening Dispatch on March 7 mentioned that because of the water from the ZamZam well a Cholera epidemic broke out, and 110 people died. 1912: The Chicago Tribune on December 27 mentioned that a Cholera epidemic broke out in Mecca, due to the ZamZam well, and 1,714 people died. 1914: The Calumet News on January 7 mentioned that 44,671 people had to be quarantined because of another Cholera epidemic because by the dirty water from the ZamZam well. 1915: The Star Press on February 7 mentioned that Mecca seems to be an eternal and permanent abiding place of Cholera, due to the dirty water. 1920: The Brooklyn Citizen on February 2 mentioned that another Cholera epidemic occurred due to the brackish water of the ZamZam well. 1930: Finally, according to the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, the city of Mecca, which was notorious for its pilgrimage epidemics, had its first year where there was no Cholera or Bubonic Plague cases. And the reason? According to the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, this was because of new hospitals, dispensaries, and Western medicine, as well as new desalination plants which had just been built in 1926. So the purity of the water, and its cleanliness, had little to do with the god of Islam, Allah; it had everything to do with Western medicine, and Western desalination plants. Shouldn't someone maybe tell Dr Ally and his daughter this? © Pfander Centre for Apologetics - US, April 5, 2023 (71,160)