Nabi Shuayb

Nabi Shuayb is a Druze non secular prophet, historically recognized with the biblical Jethro, whose viable shrine/tomb is assumed to be located near Kfar Zeitim, now not some distance from Tiberias, Israel. The identity of Shuayb with Jethro, however, is a Druze culture instead of ancient reality. Prophet Shuayb is the 14th prophet. Nabi Shuayb was an object of traditional veneration via Druze thru Palestine.

The shrine figured right down to Israeli-Arab conflict of 1948 as an area in which Druze took vows and made ziyarat. After the 1948 war, Israel placed the Maqam under exceptional Druze care. A primary discern in the Druze faith, the tomb of Nabi Shuaib, has been a site of annual pilgrimage for the Druze for hundreds of years. Shrines devoted to Nabi Shuaib are not unusual in the course of the Greater Syria location. In Druze lifestyle, it's miles believed that closer to the stop of his existence, Shuayb took refuge in a cave out of doors Hittin, where he might die in old age.