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Prophet Ibrahim [PBUH] 5

The father of Prophets and the second of the four Messengers with Will

Sayydi Ibrahim [PBUH] went back leaving behind sayyda Hajer [AAH] and sayydi Ismail [PBUH]. He was completely assured and knowing what is going to happen to them. Allah said [Our Lord! I have made some of my offspring to dwell in a valley without cultivation, by Your Sacred House, our Lord, that they may establish regular prayer. So incline the hearts of some people that they may yearn toward them, and provide them with fruits, that they may be thankful] Ibrahim 14:37. We find that al-Khalil [Ibrahim] [PBUH] said [Our Lord! I have made some of my offspring to dwell], he did not say left or any other word meaning any fear for them, which means that he [PBUH] was reassured about them.

Dwell meant that they are going to stay and settle which gives confidence. He also said [some of my offspring], he did not say my offspring, as he at that time did not have any offspring but Ismail [PBUH]. He also said [in a valley without cultivation] he did not say without water, although he left them in a rocky valley that can not be caltivated but he did not disallow the existence of water. He also said: [by Your Sacred House], insuring his faith in Allah and sending a message to all of us. As if he was saying: If you doubted my knowledge of what is going to happen, do not doubt the Capability, Mercy, and Generosity of Allah. That is why sayyda Hajer [AAH], when al-Khalil Ibrahim [PBUH] told her that it was the command of Allah, said: Then He will not waste us. Sayydi Ibrahim [PBUH] continues: [our Lord, that they may establish regular prayer], he talks here in the plural instead of singular, although he was only [sayydi Ismail], because he knew that there will be a great offspring that will come from his son sayydi Ismail [PBUH] and they will worship Allah, i.e. the for their existence is the worship. Then he said: [So incline the hearts of some people that they may yearn toward them, and provide them with fruits, that they may be thankful], i.e. make some people hurry to them with love and yearning. If he had said "incline the hearts of the people" instead of "some people", people would have crowded from Fares and Rome and Hajj would have been for Jews and Christians too. He also use a letter in Arabic that indicated his hope of Allah's quick answer to his request. Yet when he talked about the food and drink, he asked for it in relax not in a hurry or urgency because he knew that Allah, Almighty, is their suffice and provider. Allah answered both his first and second prayers.

We find that fruits of all shapes, colors and seasons are always available in Mecca at anytime. That is what we knew from the apparent meaning of this verse. The people of the intrinsic interpretation said that the words [Our Lord! I have made some of my offspring to dwell] is a teaching for certainty to whoever wants to develop it. They also said: It has a sign for the teaching of Ibrahim to his family of the facts of reliance, contentment, and submission, and what a great education! So he informed us of his true religious, tolerant, easy, and Khalil Sunna. As a sincere scholar should not relay on belongings and reasons, in his life and after his death, for raising his children, because Allah is his suffice. Moreover sayydi Ibrahim [PBUH] educated them to establish the prayers to show their slavery for Allah, ask for His witness, and intimately praying for His closeness.

They also said: He told about his sincere reliance and delegation to Allah, i.e. I made a dwelling for some people of my offspring [in a valley without cultivation] but he then clamed the nearness and said [by Your Sacred House] then he said [that they may establish regular prayer] i.e. I made them dwell there to establish Your rights not for their own share of the worldly life. It was also said: sayydi Ibrahim [PBUH] preferred to leave them in the shadow of Allah's care than in the shadow of their comfort. Then he said [in a valley without cultivation] i.e. I made them dwell in this valley with no one else in their hearts or their thoughts and secrets. They are by Your door, staying in your presence, and receiving Your judgments. If You took care of them, You are their suffice, and they would be the mightiest of all Allah's creatures. But if You derived them away and distressed them, they would be the weakest and most humiliated of all Your creatures.

The words of Allah [So incline the hearts of some people that they may yearn toward them], they said: In order that they would be busy with Your worship, so specify some people to serve them to their suffice, and provide them with fruits. As whoever stood for the rights of Allah, Allah will stand for his rights. So Allah answered his prayers for them and the hearts of the people from every land and sea became as if they were made to love the people of that house and to love the praying people of its dwellers. It was also said that Ibrahim [PBUH] asked that his offspring be the object of His Majesty and Beauty, and that Allah makes them as a sign for the sincerity and loving. With his words [So incline the hearts of some people that they may yearn toward them] he meant the would be inclined with their will and love for You and with the imitation for them in establishing Your Sunna. So dress them in Your lights' dress, and bestow, in the hearts of Your creatures, their love with Your love. The meaning of his words "the object of Your Majesty and Beauty" is: the exterior appearance of His Majesty and Beauty, loved by the pious and the dissolute and loved by the perfect and the incomplete, because the Majesty and Beauty appeared in them.

As for the first prayer: it was answered after al-Khalil [PBUH] left them with a water bottle and a sack of food. It was narrated that sayyda Hajer [AAH] stayed for three days until the bottle and the sack were emptied. She got thirsty and she did found anything to feed her baby or herself. Sayydi Ismail [PBUH] was hitting the ground with his leg and crying. When his mother saw him that way, she could not stand it, so she rau up the hill of al-Safa to look if she can see or hear anything, but she did not, so she came down to the valley of al-Marwa and listened and looked, but she did not see anything. She did that seven times, which is the origin of that walk in Hajj. When she went back to sayddi Ismail [PBUH] she found that the water has burst from beneath his leg. Sayyda Hajer was afraid that the water maybe wasted, so she kept collecting it with her hands saying: "Zim Zim", Which is a word that is used in Arabic for collecting. For those words, this well was called Zamzam, from which all people of Hajj drink. In this context. The Prophet [PPBUH] said (May Allah give His mercy to Hajer, if she had left it, it would have become a big spring). "Al-Sunan al-Kubray" by Imam an-Nesa'i.

There was a group from Bani-Khoza'h, the sons of Garham, stayed by Maccah. When they saw the birds gathered and stayed in the valley, they knew there is water. So they came to sayyda Hajer and said to her: If you will we can stay with you to keep you company, and the water will still be yours.

So what happened next in Maccah and in Sham? That will be in next issues ISA.

Written by Ahmed Abbas

Translated by Sameh