The Muslims are devout people. They say their prayers several times a day, always facing toward Mecca. Every Muslim would like to make a hajj, the Arabic name for a pilgrimage to Mecca. The importance of a cataract, or waterfall, is indicated by its height, volume of flow, steadiness or variability of flow, width of crest, and by whether the water drops sheerly or over a sloping surface in a single leap or in a succession of leaps. Height is not the only factor.
Power plants depend upon volume of falls only.
Height is the most important factor. Every community has its share of those persons who consider every group project a fair target for caustic criticism. People of diverse and even inimical religions can and do collaborate in political, economic, and social fields. The settlements in the country that was later called Hellas were not stable in ancient times. The people readily left their homes whenever they were overpowered by numbers.