The death of a Bahraini sheikh who circumambulated the Kaaba by swimming in the famous torrent in 1941

<p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr">ArabiaWeather.com- Last Wednesday, the Bahraini Sheikh Ali Al-Awadi, who circumambulated the Kaaba swimming when he was a boy at the time of the torrent that swept Makkah Al-Mukarramah and the Great Mosque of Mecca in 1941 AD, died at the age of 86.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="line-height: 1.6em;">Activists circulated on social media, a rare picture of the sheikh while circumambulating the Kaaba swimming, and they also circulated a video, during which the sheikh tells the story.</span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="line-height: 1.6em;">Sheikh Al-Awadi stated that he was studying in Makkah Al-Mukarramah in 1941 AD, and he was 12 years old at the time, and heavy rains fell in that year, which lasted a whole week, day and night, until it turned into torrential rains that swept all of Makkah.</span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="line-height: 1.6em;">And he continued: that on the last day of the rain, he decided with his brother and two of his friends and their teacher to go to the Grand Mosque in Mecca, and they found that the water covered the sanctuary to a height ranging between approximately 5 and 6 feet.</span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="line-height: 1.6em;">And everyone stood watching the scene, until he proposed to them the idea of circumambulating the Sacred House in swimming, so he went down with his brother and one of his friends to implement that idea, and they are sitting as they appear in the picture on the doorstep of the Kaaba.</span> </p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/awadi22_0.jpg" /></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/ali%20awadi_0.jpg" style="line-height: 1.6em;" /></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/awadi11.jpg" style="width: 600px; height: 608px;" /></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <strong><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">See more:</span></strong></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <strong><a href="http://www.arabiaweather.com/content/بالفيديو-سيول-تاريخية-تجرف-كل-ما-في-طريقها-بحي-العمرة-في-مكة-المكرمة"><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">Video: Historic torrents wash away everything in their path in the Umrah neighborhood in Makkah Al-Mukarramah</span></a></strong></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <a href="http://www.arabiaweather.com/content/برج-الساعة-في-الحرم-المكي-يختفي-بسبب-العاصفة-الرملية"><strong style="line-height: 1.6em;"><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">The clock tower in the Great Mosque of Mecca disappears due to the sandstorm</span></strong></a></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <a href="http://www.arabiaweather.com/content/أمطار-وسيول-تاريخية-في-اليوم-الأول-منه-الإضطراب-الجوي-على-مكة"><strong style="line-height: 1.6em;"><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">Historic rains and torrents on the first day of air turbulence over Makkah</span></strong></a></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p>