\nOne\nday, Abraham woke up and asked his wife Hajar to get her son and\nprepare for a long journey. In a few days Abraham started out with\nhis wife Hajar and their son Ishmael. The child was still nursing and\nnot yet weaned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nAbraham\nwalked through cultivated land, desert, and mountains until he\nreached the desert of the Arabian Peninsula and came to an\nuncultivated valley having no fruit, no trees, no food, no water. The\nvalley had no sign of life. After Abraham had helped his wife and\nchild to dismount, he left them with a small amount of food and water\nwhich was hardly enough for 2 days. He turned around and walked away.\nHe wife hurried after him asking: “Where are you going Abraham,\nleaving us in this barren valley?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nAbraham\ndid not answer her, but continued walking. She repeated what she had\nsaid, but he remained silent. Finally she understood that he was not\nacting on his own initiative. she realized that Allah had commanded\nhim to do this. She asked him : “Did Allah command you to do\nso?” He replied: “Yes.” Then his great wife said: “We\nare not going to be lost, since Allah Who has commanded you is with\nus.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nAbraham\ninvoked Almighty Allah thus: “O\nOur Lord! I have made some of my offspring to dwell in a valley with\nno cultivation, by Your Sacred House (the Ka’ba at Mecca); in order,\nO our Lord, that they may offer prayers perfectly (Iqamat as salat)\nso fill some hearts among men with love towards them, and O Allah\nprovide them with fruits so that they may give thanks. O our Lord!\nCertainly, You know what we conceal and what we reveal. Nothing on\nthe earth or in the heavens is hidden from Allah.”<\/em>\n(Ch 14:37-38)<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nIbn\nAbbas narrated: “The first lady to use a girdle was the mother\nof Ishmael. she used a girdle so that she might hide her tracks from\nSarah (by dragging it). Abraham brought her and her son Ishmael while\nshe was suckling him to a place near the Kaba under a tree on the\nspot of ZamZam at the highest place in the mosque. During those days\nthere was nobody in Mecca, nor was there any water so he made them\nsit over there and placed near them a leather bag containing some\ndates and a small water skin containing some water and set out\nhomeward. Ishmael’s mother followed him saying: “O Abraham!\nWhere are you going, leaving us in this valley where there is no\nperson whose company we may enjoy, nor is there anything to enjoy?”\nshe repeated that to him many times, but he did not look back at her.\nThen she asked him : “Has Allah ordered you to do so?” He\nsaid: “Yes.” She then said: “Then HE will not neglect\nus,” and returned while Abraham proceeded onwards. On reaching\nthe Thaniya where they could not see him, he faced the Kaba and\nraising both hands, invoked Allah saying the following prayers: “O\nour Lord! I have made some of my offspring dwell in a valley without\ncultivation, by Your Sacred House (Kaba at Mecca) in order, O our\nLord that they may offer prayer perfectly. So fill some hearts among\nmen with love towards them, and O Allah provide them with fruits so\nthat they may give thanks.” <\/em>(Ch\n14:37)<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nIbn\nAbbas’s narration continued; “Ishmael’s mother went on suckling\nIshmael and drinking from the water (she had) When the water in the\nwater skin had been used up, she became thirsty and her child also\nbecame thirsty, She started looking at him (Ishmael) tossing in\nagony. She left him, for she could not endure looking at him, and\nfound that the mountain of As-Safa was the nearest mountain to her on\nthat land. she too on it and started looking at the valley keenly so\nthat she might see somebody, but she could not see anybody. Then she\ndescended for As Safa and when she reached the valley, she tucked up\nher robe and ran in the valley like a person in distress and trouble\ntill she crossed the valley and reached the mountain of Al Marwa.\nThere she stood and started looking expecting to see somebody, but\nshe could not see anybody. she repeated that running between Safa And\nMarwa seven times.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nThe\nprophet Muhammad (pbuh) said: “This is the source of the\ntradition of the Sa’y (rituals of the hajj, pilgrimage) the going of\npeople between them (As-Safa and Al-Marwa). When she reached Al Marwa\n(for the last time) she heard a voice and she asked herself to be\nquiet and listened attentively. She heard the voice again and said:\n“O whoever you maybe! You have made me hear your voice; have you\ngot something to help me?” And behold! She saw an angel at the\nplace of Zam zam, digging the earth with his heel (or his wing) till\nwater flowed from that place. She started to make something like a\nbasin around it, using her hand in this way, and started filling her\nwater skin with water with her hands and the water was flowing out\nwater she had scooped some of it.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nThe\nProphet (pbuh) added: “May Allah bestow mercy on Ishmael’s\nmother! Had she let the zam-zam flow without trying to control it, or\nhad she not scooped from that water to fill her water skin, Zam zam\nwould have been a stream flowing on the surface of the earth.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nThe\nProphet (pbuh) continued: “Then she drank water and suckled her\nchild. The angel said to her: “Don’t be afraid of being\nneglected, for this is the House of Allah which will be built by this\nboy and his father, and Allah never neglects His people.” The\nHouse (Kaba) at that time was on a high place resembling a hillock,\nand when torrents came, they flowed to its right and left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \n“She\nlived in that way till some people from the tribe of Jurhum or a\nfamily from Jurhum passed by her and her child as they (the Jurhum\npeople) were coming through the way of Kada. they landed in the lower\npart of Mecca where they saw a bird that had the habit of flying\naround water and not leaving it. they said: “this bird must be\nflying around water, though we know that there is no water in this\nvalley.” They sent one or two messengers who discovered the\nsource of water and returned to inform them of the water. SO they all\ncame towards the water. Ishmael’s mother was sitting near the water.\nThey asked her: “Do you allow us to stay with you?” She\nreplied: “Yes, but you will have no right to possess the water.”\nThey agreed to that. Ishmael’s mother was pleased with the whole\nsituation, as she used to love to enjoy the company of the people, so\nthey settled there, and later on they sent for their families who\ncame and settled with them so that some families became permanent\nresidents there. The child (Ishmael) grew up and learned Arabic from\nthem and (his virtues) caused them to love and admire him as he grew\nup and when he reached the age of puberty they made him marry a woman\nfrom amongst them.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nThe\nProphet (pbuh) continued: “After Ishmael’s mother had died,\nAbraham came after Ishmael’s marriage in order to see his family that\nhe had left before but he did not find Ishmael there. When he asked\nIshmael’s wife about him, she replied: “He has gone in search of\nlivelihood.” Then he asked her about their way of living and\ntheir condition, and she replied, “We are living in misery; we\nare living in hardship and destitution,’ complaining to him. He said:\n“When your husband returns, convey my salutations to him and\ntell him to change the threshold of the gate (of his house).’<\/p>\n\n\n\n \n“When\nIshmael came, he seemed to have felt something unusual, so he asked\nhis wife: ‘Has anyone visited you?’ she replied, ‘Yes, an old man of\nsuch and such description came and asked me about you and I informed\nhim and he asked about our state of living and I told him that we\nwere living in a hardship and poverty.’ On that Ishmael said: ‘Did he\nadvise you anything?’ She said: ‘Yes he told me to convey his\nsalutation to you and to tell you to change the threshold of your\ngate.’ Ishmael said: ‘It was my father and he has ordered me to\ndivorce you. Go back to your family.’ so, Ishmael divorced her and\nmarried another woman from among them (Jurhum).<\/p>\n\n\n\n \n“Then\nAbraham stayed away from them for a period as long as Allah wished\nand called on them again but did not find Ishmael. So he came to\nIshmael’s wife and asked her about Ishmael. She said: ‘he has gone in\nsof our livelihood.’ Abraham asked her; ‘how are you getting on?’\nasking her about their sustenance and living. she replied: ‘we are\nprosperous and well off (we have everything in abundance).’ then she\nthanked Allah. Abraham said: ‘What kind of food do you eat?’ she\nsaid: ‘meat.’ he said: ‘what do you drink?’ she said: ‘water.’ he\nsaid: ‘O Allah! bless their meat and water.””<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nThe\nProphet (pbuh) added: “At that time they did not have grain, and\nif they had grain he would have also invoked Allah to bless it. If\nsomebody has only these two things as his sustenance, his health and\ndisposition will be badly affected unless he lives in Mecca.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nThe\nProphet (pbuh) continued: “Then Abraham said to Ishmael’s wife:\n‘When your husband comes give my regards to him and tell him that he\nshould keep firm the threshold of his gate.’ When Ishmael came back\nhe asked his wife, ‘did anyone call no you?’ she replied: ‘yes, a\ngood looking old man came to me,’ so she praised him and added: ‘He\nasked about you and I informed him that we were in a good condition.’\nIshmael asked her:’ did he give you any piece of advice?’ she said;\n‘yes, he told me to give his regards to you and ordered that you\nshould keep firm the threshold of your gate.’ on that Ishmael said:\n‘It was my father, and you are the threshold of the gate. He has\nordered me to keep you with me.’<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nThen\nAbraham stayed away from them for a period as long as Allah wished\nand called on them afterwards. He saw Ishmael under a tree near Zam\nZam, sharpening his arrows. When he saw Abraham, he rose up to\nwelcome him (and they greeted each other as a father does with his\nson or a son does with his father). Abraham said: ‘O Ishmael! Allah\nhas give me an order.’ Ishmael said: ‘Do what your Lord has ordered\nyou to do.’ Abraham asked:’Will you help me?’ Ishmael said: ‘I will\nhelp you.’ Abraham said: ‘Allah has ordered me to build a house\nhere,’ pointing to a hillock higher than the land surrounding it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \n“Then\nthey raised the foundations of the House (the Kaba). Ishmael brought\nthe stones while Abraham built and when the walls became high Ishmael\nbrought this stone and put it for Abraham who stood over it and\ncarried on building. While Ishmael was handing him the stones, and\nboth of them were saying: “Our\nLord! Accept this service from us, verily, You are the All Hearer,\nthe All Knower.<\/em>”\n(Ch 2:127 Quran)<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nthe\nProphet (pbuh) added: “Then both of them went on building and\ngoing round the Kaba saying O\nour Lord! Accept this service from us, verily, You are the All\nHearer, the All Knower.”<\/em>;\n(Sahih Bukhari).<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nIbn\nAbbas narrated a slightly different version: “When Abraham had\ndifferences with his wife (because of her jealousy of Hajar,\nIshmael’s mother), he took Ishmael and his mother and went away. They\nhad a water skin with them containing some water. Ishmael’s mother\nused to drink water from the water skin so that her milk would\nincrease for her child. When Abraham reached Mecca, he made her sit\nunder a tree and afterwards returned home. Ishmael’s mother followed\nhim and when they reached Kada, she called him from behind: ‘O\nAbraham! To whom are you leaving us?’ He replied: ‘(I am leaving you)\nto Allah’s care.’ she said: ‘I am satisfied to be with Allah.’ She\nreturned to her place and started drinking water from the water skin\nand her milk increased for her child.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \n“When\nthe water had all been used up, she said to herself: ‘I had better go\nand look so that I may see somebody.’ she ascended As-Safa mountain\nand looked hoping to see somebody but in vain. When she came down to\nthe valley, she ran till she reached Al Marwa Mountain. She ran to\nand for (between the two mountains) many times. Then she said to\nherself; ‘I had better go and see the state of the child.’ she went\nand found it in a state of one on the point of dying. She could not\nendure to watch it dying and said to herself: ‘If I go and look I may\nfind somebody.’ she went and ascended al-Safa mountain and looked for\na long while but could not find anybody. thus she completed seven\nrounds of running between As-Safa and Al-Marwa. Again she said to\nherself: ‘I had better go back and see the state of the child.’ but\nsuddenly she heard a voice, and she said to that strange voice. ‘help\nus if you can offer any help.’ lo! it was Gabriel (who had made the\nvoice) Gabriel hit the earth with his heel like this (Ibn Abbas hit\nthe earth with his heel to illustrate it), and so the water gushed\nout. Ishmael’s mother was astonished and started digging.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nAbu\nAl Qasim, the Prophet (pbuh) said: “If she had left the water,\n(flow naturally, without her intervention, ) it would have been\nflowing on the surface of the earth.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nIbn\nAbbas continued narrating: “Ishmael’s mother started drinking\nfrom the water, and her milk increased for her child. Afterwards some\npeople of the tribe of Hurhum saw some birds while passing through\nthe bottom of the valley and that astonished them. They said: “birds\ncan only be found at a place where there is water.” They sent a\nmessenger who searched the place and found the water and returned to\ninform them about it. Then they all went to her and said: “O\nIshmael’s mother! Will you allow us to be with you (or dwell with\nyou)?” Then they stayed there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \n“Later\non her boy reached the age of puberty and married a lady from them.\nThen an idea occurred to Abraham, which he disclosed to his wife\n(sarah). ‘I want to call on my dependants I left at Mecca.’ When he\nwent there he greeted Ishmael’s wife and said: ‘where is Ishmael?’\nShe replied: ‘He has gone out hunting.’ Abraham said to her: ‘When he\ncomes, tell him to change the threshold of his gate.’ When Ishmael\ncame she told him the same and whereupon Ishmael said to her: ‘you\nare the threshold so go to your family (you are divorced).’<\/p>\n\n\n\n \n“Again\nAbraham thought of visiting his dependents whom he had left at Mecca,\nand told his wife (Sarah) of his intentions. Abraham came to\nIshmael’s house and asked: ‘Where is Ishmael?’ Ishmael’s wife\nreplied: ‘He has gone out hunting,’ and added: ‘will you stay for\nsome time and have something to eat and drink?’ Abraham said: ‘what\nis your food and what is your drink?’ she replied: ‘our food is meat\nand our drink is water.’ he replied: ‘O Allah! Bless their meals and\ntheir drink.’<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nAbu\nAl Qasim (the Prophet)(pbuh) said: “Because of Abraham’s\ninvocation there are blessings in Mecca.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nIbn\nAbbas continued: “Once more Abraham thought of visiting his\nfamily he had left at Mecca and he told his wife (Sarah) of his\ndecision. HE went and found Ishmael behind the Zam-zam well, mending\nhis arrows. He said: ‘O Ishmael, your Lord has ordered me to build a\nhouse for Him.’ Ishmael said: ‘Obey the order of your Lord.’ Abraham\nsaid: ‘Allah has also ordered me that you should help me therein.’\nIshmael said: ‘Then I will do so.’ So both of them were saying: “O\nour Lord! Accept this service of us, verily, You are the All Hearer,\nthe All Knower.”<\/em>\n(Ch 2:127)<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nWhen\nthe building became high and the old man (Abraham) could no longer\nlift the stones to such a high position, he stood over the stone of\nAl Maqam and Ishmael carried on handing him the stones and both of\nthem were saying: “O\nour Lord! Accept this service of us, verily You are the All Hearer,\nthe All Knower.””<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \nAllah\nthe Almighty told us of Abraham’s affliction with his beloved son:\nAnd\nhe said after his rescue from the fire: “Verily! I am going to\nmy Lord. He will guide me! My Lord! Grant me (offspring) from the\nrighteous.” SO We gave him the glad tidings of a forbearing boy.\nAnd when he (his son) was old enough to walk with him, he said: “O\nmy son! I have seen in a dream that I am slaughtering you (offer you\nin sacrifice to Allah), so look what do you think!\u00fd” “O my\nfather! Do that which you are commanded InshAllah (if Allah wills),\nyou shall find me of the patient.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \nThen\nwhen they had both submitted themselves to the Will of Allah and he\nhad laid him prostrate on his forehead (or on the side of his\nforehead for slaughtering); and We called out to him: “O\nAbraham! You have fulfilled the dream (vision!” Verily! Thus do\nWereward those who perform good deeds, totally for Allah’s sake only.\nVerily, that indeed was a manifest trial and We ransomed him with a\ngreat sacrifice (a ram;) and We left for him ( a goodly remembrance)\namong generations (to come) in later times. “Salamun (peace) be\nupon Abraham!” Thus indeed do We reward the Muhsineen (good\ndoers). Verily, he was one of Our believing slaves.<\/em>\n(Ch 37:99-111 Quran)<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nTime\npassed. One day Abraham was sitting outside his tent thinking of his\nson Ishmael and Allah’s sacrifice. His heart was filled with awe and\nlove for Allah for His countless blessings. A big tear dropped from\nhis eyes and reminded him of Ishmael.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nIn\nthe meantime, three angels descended to the earth; Gabriel,\nIsraphael, and Michael. they came in human shapes and saluted\nAbraham. Abraham arose and welcomed them. He took them inside his\ntent thinking they were strangers and guests. He seated them and made\nsure that they were comfortable, then excused himself to go to his\npeople.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nHis\nwife Sarah arose when he entered. She had become old and white\nhaired. Abraham said to her: “We have three strangers in the\nhouse.” “Who are they?” she asked. “I do not know\nany of them,” he answered. “What food have we got?” He\nasked. Half a sheep.” she replied, “Half a sheep! Slaughter\na fat calf for them; they are strangers and guests.” he ordered\nwhile leaving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nThe\nservants roasted and served a calf. Abraham invited the angels to eat\nand he started eating so as to encourage them. He continued, but when\nhe glanced at his guests to assure they were eating, he noticed that\nnone of them had touched the food. He said to the them: “Are you\nnot going to eat?” He resumed eating, but when he glanced at\nthem again he found that they were still not eating. Their hands did\nnot reach out for the food. HE began to fear them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nAbraham’s\nfears increased. The angels, however were reading his inner thoughts\nand one of them said: “Do not fear.” Abraham raised his\nhead and replied: “Indeed I am in fear. I have asked you to eat\nfood but you do not stretch out your hands to eat. DO you intend me\nevil?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nOne\nof the angels smiled and said: “We do not eat. We are Allah’s\nangels.” One of them then turned towards his wife and conveyed\nthe glad tidings about Isaac (Ishaaq).<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nAlmighty\nAllah revealed: Verily!\nThere came Our Messengers to Abraham with glad tidings. They said:\n“Salaam (greetings or peace)!” he answered: “Salaam\n(greetings or peace)!” and he hastened to entertain them with a\nroasted calf. But, when he saw their hands went not towards it (the\nmeal), he felt some mistrust of them, and conceived a fear of them.\nThey said: “Fear not, we have been sent against the people of\nLot.” And his wife was standing there and she laughed (either,\nbecause the Messengers did not eat their food or for being glad for\nthe destruction of the people of Lot). But We gave her glad tidings\nof Isaac, and after him of Jacob.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \nShe\nsaid (in astonishment): “Woe unto me! Shall I bear a child while\nI am an old woman, and here is my husband an old man? Verily! This is\na strange thing!” They said: “Do you wonder at the Decree\nof Allah? The Mercy of Allah and His Blessings be on you, O the\nfamily (of Abraham). Surely, He (Allah) is All praiseworthy,\nAll-Glorious.” <\/em>(CH\n11:69-73).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One day, Abraham woke up and asked his wife Hajar to get her son and prepare for a long journey. In a few days Abraham started out with his wife Hajar and their son Ishmael. The child was still nursing and not yet weaned. 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