It was the earnest need of the child that mother of Ismail Nabi ran in search
of water in the vicinity of Makkah. Under divine instruction, Jibreel (A.S.),
struck the site of the land with his heels, and perpetual source of healing
Zamzam was discovered. Zamzam was considered sacred earlier to Islam
amongst Jews as well as Christians too. Afterwards, due to the religious
bigotry they ignored it. It has simultaneously three abilities, to quench the
thirst and removes the feeling of hunger. The next ability of Zamzam, as per
traditions, is its numerous and enormous medicinal benefits.
Yusria Abdel Rahman al Harazi, a Yemeni lady narrated that she was affected
by a crimson ulcer, in eye. She had severe headache, which cannot be cured
by medicine. She was about to become blind in the affected eye. She
consulted famous eye specialist there, who advised her, an injection, which
will stop the headache but will dysfunction the affected eye and consequently
she will loose the sight. Yusria got frightened but confident of the mercy of
Allah. She intended to perform Umrah and begs to Allah to cure her. She
came to Makkah and performed Tawaaf and washed her eyes with Zamzam.
When she came back to the hotel, she found that her affected eyes were