Story:
Plans for a mile-high tower in the Saudi Arabian desert have been unveiled by the billionaire owner of London’s Savoy Hotel.
At 5,250ft, the £5billion project, masterminded by two British engineering consultancies, will be twice as high as its nearest rivals, skyscrapers under construction in Dubai and Kuwait, and almost seven times as high as the Canary Wharf tower in London’s Docklands.
Prophecy:
…Barefoot, naked, shepherds compete in building tall structures. [Sahih Muslim]
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Cool. Though it seems to be designed like a massive silo.
What’s been built in Kuwait? That’s the first I hear of that.
I expected Walid Ibn Talal to eventually get in on it, though I assume his Kingdom Tower is already the tallest in Saudi Arabia.
This new city is it the Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz City being built or another one?
Is the graphic from a US website? I thought Australia was metric these days…
Wow. A tower that dwarfs the Dubai Tower… You are rightfully reminded of the prophecy given by our Prophet s.a.w.s., but looking at the picture of the towers, I was reminded of the verse in the Qur’an describing how Pharaoh ordered Haman to build him a structure so he could climb up to Musa’s God. The owner of the tower may be a Muslim, but I doubt this tower is being built because he thinks that it will make it easier for him to get closer to Allah.
One child dies from hunger or a preventable disease every (?) 3 seconds and the Saudis want to build phallic status symbols. Grotesque.
Anyone else think that money can be used towards aid to Gazans?
Uthman that does not mean he is building the tower so that he may “touch the face of God”.
This tower is being built by a private company, Walid Ibn Talal has given money in the past to the Palestinians and to the poor in Lebanon, when Jenin was demolished by the Israelis he helped fund the rebuilding of the camp, this is why Mayor Juliani of NYC in 2001 refused his donation to help the victims of the attacks.
The hadith of the Prophet mentions it as a sign of the nearness of the Day of Judgment, but does it refer to the people building these towers as evil or condemned to Hell for their actions?
Another point - is there any point in building such an enormously high tower? Wouldn’t you run into diminishing returns, where eventually so much of the building would need to be occupied by elevator shafts that it would have less usable floor space than a shorter building?
I think once helicopters are being brought in to move construction material, instead of cranes, you might want to step back and think a minute.
But I still would disagree with tendencies to demonize by comparing him to one of the most evil men mentioned in the Quran, or trying to insinuate he does not give to charity (an argument that has lost all meaning considering how it is brought up every time an Arab is building something).
Just because building tall buildings is a sign before the day of judgment, does that mean it’s haram?
It never ends.
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