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Heavier rains turn Arabia into grassland with lakes and herds. Rock art at Jubbah shows the cattle. Then, slowly, the land dries again.
How it touches Islam The Prophet ﷺ said the Hour will not come until the land of the Arabs returns to meadows and rivers.
Source: History
Borders come from Cliopatria, the open map of the Seshat Global History Databank (CC BY 4.0), and are approximate. Dates before 1000 BCE are estimates, and for the earliest prophets the Quran gives the order of events but not their years. Sources: the Quran, Sahih al-Bukhari and Muslim, the Seerah of Ibn Ishaq, Ibn Kathir's al-Bidaya wan-Nihaya, and standard histories. See also the villains of Islamic history, from Iblis to the Dajjal, and the library of people, nations, empires and places.
