A son of a great Prophet
Prophet Ismail(PBUH)
- And Ibrahim AS would go to the valley of Makkah and he will see Isma'il AS, and he will say to Isma'il...
- O son! Allah had ordered me an order. So Isma'il will say:
- O Dad! Do what Allah SWT had ordered you to do
- So Ibrahim told Isma'il: And would you help me? So Isma'il said: Yes, I will help you
- They were making a Du'a to Allah SWT as they were doing this. What was the Du'a?
- O Allah accept this from us, O Allah we are putting up a house for you. So as they began to build it, it got a little bit high
- When it was a little bit high, what happened? Ibrahim AS was getting the bricks or the rocks from Isma'il AS
- There was no mortar used, no cement. It was just rock on rock on rock
- Each one was fitting into the other, like a jigsaw
- So what happened, as they were putting it up, now it's getting high
- So Allah SWT miraculously caused a specific rock that he was standing on to go slightly higher
- And he placed it, then it would come slightly lower, he would get the next one, then it would go slightly higher, he would place it then it would come low
- They knew that this is Allah, it is the house of Allah, he had shown us one too many times that definitely He is with us
- That is the Power of Allah SWT
- And when the house was built, there was a corner, Ibrahim AS thought to himself,
- I want to put a proper rock in this corner that fits flush in the corner
- And he was trying to look for a rock and asking Ismail AS let's put this rock and Ismail AS is looking for something, but he couldn't find it
- And later on Isma'il AS came back and he is seeing a beautiful rock there
- He says: What's this? He says: Allah sent me a rock from Jannah
- From paradise, this rock has come and this is what we call today "Al-Hajar-Al Aswad"
- It was white and it became black from the sins of the people and now it's black and if you see, it's a black rock and not as big and white as it used to be
- Throughout years, it reduced few tips here and there, fell down and was stolen in some areas so it's smaller than the original size
- Now let's go a little bit further. When Ismail AS had married and he was in Makkah
- And we had mentioned that his father Ibrahim AS used to come and go
- He(Ibrahim) used to be between the Arabian Peninsula, (Between Makkah)
- And Ash-Shaam (Meaning where Palestine is today)
- So he came into Makkah (Nobody knew who he was) and he entered the house
- He knocked on the door of Ismail AS, to go and meet his son obviously
- Lo and behold, there was a woman who answered the door
- He looked at her and he asked her a few questions, he greeted her... she respobded
- And he asked: How is your condition? Where is your husband and what is he doing?
- And she complained one way to this man, firstly she didn't know who he was
- Secondly she began to complain, no he leaves us here, he goes away
- And we don't really have much, we're struggling, there's hardly food and what have you
- And when Ibrahim AS heard this woman, he was upset
- So Ibrahim AS looks at the woman and says: Tell him that there was a man who had come...
- And he is saying Salaam upon him and he asks him to change his doorstep
- The threshold of his door... tell him look, this threshold, he needs to chage it
- So she said: No problem. And he was gone, before she could ask him; Who are you?.. He was gone
- Now Ismail AS came, as he entered he sensed that his father was here. He sensed it
- So Ismail AS asked his wife: Was somebody here? She said: Yes, a man came
- (Ismail asks) who was he? (His wife says) I don't know who he was but,
- He was an elderly man and she described a little bit of a description
- So he asked the question: Did he have any message?
- Yes, he passed you Salaams and he said that you need to change the threshold of your door
- Immediately he looked at her and said: That was my father, instructing me to divorce you
- You are the threshold, you are the one who answered the door when I wasn't here
- And he is telling me: I need to divorce you. And he told her: Please go back home
- Now where was she from? She was from Makkah, she was from the tribe of Jurhum
- And Jurhum they brought Ismail up and they got him married, they they loved him to bits, they got him married to one of them
- And Jurhum accepted her and told him: Don't worry, we will get you married to another
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