Founder and Foundation, “And when it is being ordered by Almighty Allah to Hazrat Ibrahim (A.S)” to initiate the development of Holy Khan-e-Kaba, the most respectable and precious place on the earth. As assigned to him, it was built up by keeping its foundation strong from all sides in order to offer prayers and “Hamd-o- Sana” for the God of this universe.
Basically, it was the indirect break-through and start of Civil Engineering by “Khalil Ullah” (Hazrat Ibrahim A.S). When the work is to be done by dedication, care, and effort, the contribution of Allah has embarked on the establishment.
Due to the blessings of Allah, the holy city of Makkah was entitled with “Umm –ul-Qura”, so we can also give the title of “Umm -ul– Hunr” (the field of skills and technology) to Civil Engineering as technically both concepts had developed simultaneously. If serious consideration is given to Civil Engineering then it seems that each step of this program is based on full mercies of Allah. For example, the destruction of the ground with the heel rubbing of Hazrat Ismail (A.S) and the start of “Zam Zam (Water)” resembles with the field of “Water Resources Engineering”.
Furthermore, the preparation of a small pond or cistern by Syeda Hajra (A.S) to stop that particular water is basically the “Irrigation Engineering”. Then orientation of different valuable and precious stones for the development of Khan-e- Kaba is “Construction Engineering” while to make this holy structure high rise is “Structural Engineering”. We can predict the reflection of “Construction Management” when comes to the item synchronization of this productive development. Certainly, after this construction, the great city of Makkah was entirely developed in a way that we can correlate it with the idea of the specific field which is “Town planning”. Not only that, the positional directions of Kaba as given by the God of this universe like Hateem, Maqame Ibrahim, Rukne Yamani and Multazim are the features as translated in the subject matters of “Surveying/ Leveling” and “Global Positioning System” nowadays. At the time of Hajj, people travel from all over the Islamic world in order to visit this holy place is actually the idea of “Transportation and Traffic Engineering” because they use to travel in different modes of transportation including cars, buses, railways, and airways.
Above all, the areas of education in this world; open or hidden are specially based on clear perspective and clean vision that can be linked with any of the important ancient civilization. It is an undoubted truth from our Holy book “Quran-e-Karim” that individuals having the technical and sound knowledge and those who anticipate their skills with wisdom for the prosperity of mankind are given the reward of shining height by Almighty Allah. And this is what the sayings of Quran-e-Karim which is the best of its excellence amongst all books carrying huge awareness and guidance in all respects. But it is very unfortunate that most of us are not following or taking guidance with this; those who involved this precious guiding code in their daily matters are actually stepped forward for success and affluence of whole life.
If we look around us then all these high rise buildings, high mobilized underground/ surfaced Railway systems, occurrence of elements and minerals in the depth of sea and oceans, the arterials that perpetually connect cities and countries, dams/ reservoirs for water storage and electricity generation etc even all matters that benefit the mankind with the use of specific technology comes under the head of Hazrat Ibrahim (A.S) or we can say he (A.S) is the founder of all and he (A.S) is the one who offers due for the birth of our follower and a complete personality “Hazrat Mohammad Mustafa” (S.A.W.W). (Idealized by Syed Faraz Jafri and written by Khawaja Sheeraz. Both are civil engineers)
