Facts to swallow • The well of Zamzam has never dried up. Instead, it has always actually fulfilled the demand for water. • It has also held the same salt composition and taste ever since it first poured forth. • This water has never been chemically treated or chlorinated as is the case with water pumped into the cities. • Biological growth and vegetation usually takes place in most wells. This makes the water unpalatable (unfit for drinking) owing to the growth of algae causing taste and odor problems. But in the case of the Zamzam water well, there wasn't any sign of biological growth. Water for every purpose Al-Qasim Ibn Muhammad Ibn Ibad heard Suwaid Ibn Saeed say, “I saw Abdullah Ibn Al-Mubarak in Makkah approach Zamzam, then he poured himself some Zamzam, faced the Qiblah and said to us: “On the authority of Muhammad Ibn Al-Munkadir from Jabir that the Prophet (peace be upon him) said, ‘Zamzam serves the intention that it was drunk for.' I drink it to prevent myself from the thirst on the Day of Judgment.” Then he drank (the Zamzam water). — Reported by Al-Khateeb Al
