To walk in Akka is to walk on history... a prison fortress built on top of a crusader castle, built on top of a Phoenician city.... The key stop for the Romans the Crusaders, Asian and European traders and the development of the modern state of Israel. In the picture you can still see a cannon ball stuck in the wall from the time Napolean tried and failed to take the city...
Hosea had said that 'Akká was 'a door of hope'. Ezekiel had referred to it as 'the gate that looketh toward the east' to which 'the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east'
By the time Baha’u’llah was banished here from the east it was a rundown prison at the edge of the Ottoman empire... it was in such a poor state that it was said that a bird attempting to fly over it would drop dead...
Muhammad said that anyone drinking and washing from the water in Akka would be so protected that “God hath forbidden the fire of hell to touch him and his body on the Day of Resurrection.” I am glad that I stopped washed my hands and had a snack and a cup of tea at the house of Abbud in Akka...Dante should have taken the time to come here as it could have saved him from walking through the many levels hell...... anyway it is always nice to have some extra fire insurance....ha ha
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