A son of a great Prophet
Prophet Ismail(PBUH)
- When his(Ibrahim's) wife Sarah(PBUH) felt for him, being such a good man who always made Dua
- Ya Allah, grant me offspring who will be pure, who will serve your cause
- Offspring who will surrender to you just like I have
- So his wife decided to give him the servant that she had had in marriage
- And Allah SWT decided then to bless Ibrahim AS with a child; Ismail AS
- So after Allah SWT blessed him with a child, he was instructed after some time
- To take this wife of his and the child and to move on the Earth
- Until he got to a certain place which was completely barren, it had nothing on it, it was just soil, and it was a very very hot place
- And Allah SWT described it.. and that isw the Valley of Makkah
- When he got to Makkatul Mukarrama, Allah SWT told him: Leave this women and the child, and go!
- And he started walking
- He(Isma'il) was breasted for a while and then the food ran out and everything dried up Subhan'Allah
- And the mother is looking at the child, and she says: No, I must make an effort to try and look for some food
- So she decided to go up the hollock, the Mount Safa
- She went up the mountain and she's looking.. is there any sign? No sign, no life, no movement, no nothing
- So she came down making Du'a to Allah and when she gets to the bottom, she's running. Why is she running at the bottom?
- Because she wants to get to the top of the other mountain on the other side
- And she doesn't want to miss anyone who might pass whilst she's at the bottom
- So she runs at a specific place and then she climbs up, she is in Marwa
- She makes Du'a again for sustenance; Ya Allah, send us some goodness, ya Allah, you are the one.. we know you will not let us down
- And a couple of times she ran up and down, and down and up, Allahu Akbar
- Making Du'a, looking, checking, then she heard a sound and she's looking, what sound is this?
- And she came down and she looked at where the child was, and there was a spring of water gushing from nowhere
- Subhan Allah
- A spring of water gushing from nowhere, she looked at it and she thanked Allah SWT
- She sat down and she wanted to gather the water, so she created a basin like structure
- Small little basin like structure with her hands with the muddy sand that now became like clay and mud because it was wet
- So she began to say in the language: Zam Zam Zam Zam, it means stop, stop, stop, stop
- Because we want to now take you and drink you, so you stop
- To this day we have this water known as Zam Zam from the same well
- After some time, the birds began to come, when the birds began to come and they were drinking from there
- In the middle of the desert, the middle of the desert, no life was there
- And caravans used to pass, and in the heat of the moment they're looking for birds
- Why are they looking for birds?
- Not to hunt the birds, but wherever you see a bird you know there is some water near by
- So the clan of Jurhum was passing from that area and they noticed some birds in the middle of nowhere. They were not expecting them
- So they decided to check up on what's happening, and they sent someone. Go and see where these birds are flying to
- So the birds had gone and they were sitting around this well nand the water was gushing
- They were drinking and this messenger finds a woman with a little baby
- So he went back to his people, the people of Jurhum, the caravan and he explained to them
- They were very very amazed. They came, they knew this is a miracle so they asked the woman
- Do you mind if we live here? Why, becauses there's water running from here, it's gushing,
- That doesn't happen in that particular desert. Doesn't happen. Water gushing from underneath
- From that she realized these people have good character, they are disciplined people, they are cultured
- So she said: Look you can come and stay here on condition, that this water belongs to us, not to you
- We will allow you to drink from it, but it's our property, not yours. So you can drink and benefit
- They stayed there, they were very very happy and they loved the little child (Isma'il)
- And as the child grew, they taught him Arabic, they were pure Arabs, they taught him Arabic
- They taught him manners and so on and as he grew up, his father used to come and go
- His father, Ibrahim AS when he came back at one stage he had seen
- Masha'Allah! This is the set up and he was quite happy with it and he used to come, and he used to go
- And thereafter one day; As Ibrahim came into Makkah and he was lying down, he had a dream
- Where Ibrahim AS one night he will see himself slaughtering his own son Isma'il
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