Rabigh city
Rabigh is a Saudi city and it is one of the centers of the governorates of Makkah Al-Mukarramah region. Rabigh is considered one of the ancient Saudi cities due to its location on the Red Sea coast in the Hejaz region. It was inhabited by Bani Damra from the Kenana tribe, one of the indigenous Arab tribes in the Arabian Peninsula, and they worked in trade benefiting from Rabigh as well as its location On the road to the commercial caravans in Mecca, and the researchers say that Rabigh has a pleasant climate and fertile soil with large amounts of rain, and at one point in the historical stages was a prosperous region and its people lived a good life in the sense that the origin of the word Rabigh was taken from the softness or the wafers of living ..
Rabigh before Islam
Rabigh has a distinguished location from the foot before and after Islam, as it is a corridor linking Makkah, Medina and the northern regions of the Arabian Peninsula, as Quraish caravans crossed this city back and forth, and Rabigh is also characterized by the fertility of its soil and abundance of water in it, and historians have mentioned that Rabigh falls with it The rains are intense and the water from the mountains accumulates in its valley and ponds are formed, and the water may remain in it throughout the summer season and the grass grows, which provides livestock for the people of the fertile pastures for these reasons.
Rabigh after Islam
After the mission of our noble Prophet and his emigration from Makkah to Madinah, the importance of the city increased, especially after the Holy Prophet identified a region close to it as a time for Hajj and Umrah. The city, stores, markets, factories, desalination plants and cement industries were established, and boys and girls schools and a branch of King Abdulaziz University were established in it. Rabigh is part of Makkah Al-Mukarramah Region, which is one of the most important regions of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the most religiously valuable to the city. The world has become tempted by the presence of the honorable Kaaba in it. This region is one of the most densely populated regions in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the most urbanized, and the most commercially active, and its infrastructure of roads, communications, transportation, services, water, and electricity. The region is able to provide all services to visitors to Makkah Throughout the year, the number of visitors is not small, as their support ranges between 20,000,000 pilgrims, between pilgrims, pilgrims or tourists, in addition to the number of indigenous people, as Makkah region inhabits a quarter of the Kingdom’s population, i.e. up to 7 million people. The visitor to Mecca and many Saudi cities, including Rabigh, notes the annual expansion of all public facilities in his cities, the development of services provided to the visitor, and the keenness to provide all means of security and comfort for him. The Saudi government spends billions annually to develop these services.