Alexandria ...

It is the famous city in Egypt on the sea coast.

The people of the Sir differed on its builder: some of them went until its builder Alexander the first, who is Dhu al-Qarnain, Ashk ibn Slocus al-Rumi who toured the earth and reached darkness and sunset and its rise and blocked the gog and magog as he told God Almighty about him and if he reached a position that is not executed take a statue there Al-Nahhas is a written Yemeni substance, and some of them said who built it by Alexander bin Dara, son of the daughter of the Roman philosopher, likened him to Alexander the first because he went to China and Morocco and died when he was thirty-two years old and the first was a believer and the second was on the doctrine of his teacher Aristotle and between the first and second a long time.

It was said: When Alexander built Alexandria and was old in the construction of Shaddad Bin Aad, it had traces of architecture and stone cylinders. He slaughtered many sacrifices for offerings and entered a structure that was for the Greeks. He asked his Lord to show him the matter of this city, whether or not he saw in his dream, saying to him saying : You build this city, its reputation goes up in the horizons, and it is inhabited by people whose countless numbers, the good winds mix with its air, the toxins are distracted from it, the heat is flattened and the roaring and the evil is hidden from it so that the devils do not fall from it to dementia.

So Alexander came to its place and saw the goodness of its air and the traces of ancient architecture and deliberately many of the marble, so he ordered the makers of the country to search and collect the machine and choose the time to build it so they chose a time and hung a bell even if the bell moved the makers put the construction from all sides at the same time and if they were waiting for a bird flew on the bell and moved it then they put Construction.

That was said to Alexander, and he said: I wanted her long stay and God wanted the speed of its ruin, and it would not be anything other than what God wanted, so do not let her down.

And when its foundation was established, and the night of the night was out of the sea, and it was destroyed by what they built, and it still ruled it every day and entrusted it to those who kept it, so they became ruined.

So Alexander ordered that she be baptized with a talisman to pay the jinn, and that he harmed them to harm them.

Al-Masoudi said: The columns on which the talisman has images, figures, and writing remain to our time. Each column is eighteen cubits long, with pictures, shapes, and writing.

There were seven walls on it, and it is now a city of many good things.

It was the day of adornment and the protest of Moses and magicians.

Moses was more than a thousand years before Alexander.

With the Council of Solomon, peace be upon him, Al-Gharnati said: He is outside Alexandria, the daughter of the jinn carved out of the rock with marble columns, like every pillar on the base of marble and on the head thereof like it, and white marble dotted with red and black like the Yamani onyx The length of each column is thirty cubits and its circle is eight arms and has A door of marble and its threshold and its arms are also of red marble, which is better than onyx and in this assembly more than three hundred columns are all of one gender and have one in the middle of this council a column of marble on a marble base of one hundred and eleven cubits and its turn forty-five inches .

One of its wonders is a pillar known today as a pillar near the gate of the tree from the gates of Alexandria, because it is very great as if it is a great lighthouse and it is one piece erected on the base of a great square stone and on top of another stone like the base as if it is a house, so underneath that of its section and erection and raising the top stone on his head indicates However, his actors were in great power and were unlike the people of our time.

Among its wonders is what Abu Al-Rayhan mentioned in the remaining monuments that Alexandria has a moving cylinder and the people say that it is moving in the movement of the sun, but they said that because if it did not put something under it if it was flat it could not be taken and if it was a ceramic or a glass heard its intercourse and Alexandria was the compound of the wise and with them their gates were like stairs sitting She had the sages on their classes, and he was the most knowledgeable of those who work chemistry, because his position was on the lower degree.

One of its wonders is the lighthouse below it is a square of carved rock and above that an octagonal lighthouse and above the octagonal a nice lighthouse rounded the length of the first ninety cubits and the eighth is like that and the length of the gentle rounded thirty cubits and on the top of the lighthouse a mirror and on it a client looking at it every moment. Mirror tells the enemy to prepare to push it.

The mirror remained until the time of Al-Waleed bin Abdul-Malik bin Marwan, so the king of the Romans executed a person of his subtle characteristic, so he came to some stomata and showed that he fled from the king of the Romans and wanted Islam and Islam at the hands of Al-Walid bin Abdel-Malik and extracted burials for him from the Levant.

When that money became to Alwaleed, he insulted himself and said to him: O Commander of the Faithful, here are money and burials for the past kings.

Al-Walid asked him about his place, and he said: Under the lighthouse of Alexandria, Alexander contained the money of Shaddad ibn Aad and the kings of Egypt and the Levant, so he left it in Azaj and built the lighthouse on it.

Al-Walid sent a people with him to extract it, they broke off half of the lighthouse, the mirror was removed, and the people of Alexandria were bitter.

When Al-Alaj saw this and knew that the mirror was invalidated, he fled at night in a boat towards the Roman and was tricked.

The lighthouse in our time is a high fortress on the foothold of Jabal Mushrif on the sea at the tip of an island between it and the mainland, towards the stroke of a horse, and there is no way to it except in the salty sea, which is square and has a wide staircase that the rider climbs with his horse.

The staircase was covered with stones throughout a vehicle on the two walled walls, so that it rises to a high layer overlooking the sea with surrounding terraces, and in the middle is another fort that rises to another degree, and ascends to another layer with balconies, in the middle of which is a nice dome, as if it were the location of the worms.

It was reported that Abdel Aziz Ibn Marwan, when he was crowned by Egypt, gathered his sheikhs and said: I want to rebuild Alexandria to what it was.

They said: Look at us until we think.

He said: Help me with men and I will help you with money.

So they went to Naos, took out a human's head, carried it on a wheel, and weighed a tooth, so they found twenty pounds of its grunt and foot, and they said: We came with such men until we returned them to what they were.

It has a well-known eye in Alexandria with a kind of seashell, there is every time that is not free of it at any time it cooks and drinks its broth exonerating leprosy.

God bless.