When Allah Commands the Impossible

The writer. Alhamdulillah.

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We are still in the very long lengthy narration of the prophet Sam narrated by Abbas regarding the story of the rebuilding of the Kaa. As we mentioned and as we have read in this narration that the ka was already built when and is arrived there in that sacred valley of Mecca but it was in ruins because it's in a valley and over time you know erosion but it was originally built by Adam and the black stone was originally sent down to Adam. But as civilizations rise and fall and as humanity grapples with its righteousness or lack thereof, the ka was laid in ruins, but its foundations were there and just slightly. And so Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala commanded, listen closely to the words here. Allah commanded Ibraim to take his son is who was just a little infant suckling at the time and to take his concubine Haj all the way out into the middle of the desert in the Arab Peninsula. There was not a soul for hundreds of miles in any direction. And he left them there by Allah's command with a water skin, right? Imagine a gallon of water or two gallons of water and a satchel with dates in it. That's it. That's all he left them there with. Now, who had commanded this? Allah. If we were to take a stop right here at this part of the narration and look at two things. Number one, when Ibraim took them there to that sacred valley and he set them under that Doha, under that big tree in the valley of Mecca and he gave them this water skin and he gave them this satchel of dates and he turned around to leave. Hajam started to follow him. He didn't even get he didn't give him anything to hunt with. He didn't give him anything to make a fire with. He didn't give him anything to ride. This is deliberate. And so she followed him and she said, "Who are you leaving us here to? Are you going to leave us here alone?" And then Ibraim was walking away, not turning around. Why was I not turning around? Obviously this is very difficult for him. Imagine praying for a son for eight decades. Ibraim was about 86 years old when he was given is he prayed for a son for more than 80 years. And finally, when he was given that son, he tells him while he's still an infant, take him out into the middle of the desert in the middle of nowhere and leave him there. This is not easy for Ibraim. But it's Allah's command. And Ibraim, if we were to stop him at that moment and say, why has Allah commanded this? Listen to the question. Why has Allah commanded you to do this? Did he know? Most likely he did not know. He did not know. Or if he did, he did not know how this was in any way working towards that ultimate goal of rebuilding the Kaa. Why doesn't stay with me in Hashem? When he grows older, we'll come back together and we'll rebuild the Cabba. No, take him now. And then asked him a critical question. She said, "Did Allah command you to do this?" He said, "Yes, Allah commanded me to do this." She said, "Then in that case," that's all she needed to hear. She said, "In that case, Allah will not lose us." And she went back dutifully and sat down under that tree. She has no idea why they're there. What greater purpose this serves if we were to stop at that moment and say, "This is for a great purpose." Tell me, what great purpose does it serve for a woman to take her infant child and sit out in the middle of nowhere? What great purpose could come of that? But but the as the poet says that if Allah wants to, he will take the most tattered, beaten down thing and make it into a gem. If Allah wants to, if you and I were to go back in time and be shown the place where is and were and you were to be told looking around, all you see is desert. As far as the eye can see, you know what the desert is? Death. Desert. And death, they are synonyms in our world here on this earth. Nobody can survive the desert, not without years upon years of training and knowledge. And so if you and I were to go back there and stand there with and look around and see nothing but death everywhere and then we were to be told, you see this place right here, middle of nowhere, this desert, this is going to be the most visited place on earth. Every single every single inch of humanity on this earth, wherever day and night go, people will come from those stretches to come to this point right here. That would be pretty hard to believe, wouldn't it? But what is Allah's description? Yet he brings forth life from the dead, doesn't he? He brings forth life from the dead. And this is very very very apparent when Gibl finally comes. Now Hajar is there. She is suckling her child. She runs out of water. She runs out of dates. Night is coming. sounds. Imagine how frightened she must have been. She's looking around. She knows Allah is going to send something for her, but she doesn't know what it is. She's looking for it. She's trying to figure out what is expected of her at this moment. And I guarantee you all of us collectively had not been in onetenth of a difficulty as Haj were was in this moment. But she sat there dutifully waiting for Allah's decree to unfold and she started getting thirsty and her son started to squirm from hunger crying incessantly as a baby. And so Haj instead of just sitting there she couldn't take this anymore. So she went up to the closest mountain which was a safa and she stood on top of that mountain to get a higher vantage point. She's looking around to see where Allah's relief is going to come from. And then she comes down from the mountain and as the prophet sallallah.aii alaihi wasallam tells us when she passes is to go up onto she covers her face with her with her dress so that she doesn't have to look at her poor child squirming from hunger and she goes up onto Marwa and she looks out and then she comes back down and as she comes between Marwa what does she do she jogs lightly ly to get past this without having to look at him. And she goes up onto a saf and then back down and again seven times. What is that? That is what we do today in that is why when we arrive between we jog. If we were to stop Haj at that moment and say, do you know what? Billions and billions and billions of men and women from all walks of earth, kings and servants, old and young, are going to come here and imitate you for the rest of time. That would be pretty unbelievable at that moment, wouldn't it? But who knew that such such steps that she took, but she took them in faith. And now Allah makes all of the rest of humanity worship him the way that Haj worshiped him that day. And so on her seventh time, she gets up on top of Al Marwa and she hears a sound and she says, she's the only one there. She's the only one there. She hears a sound. She says, "Quiet." Telling herself, "Quiet." She hears it again. She turns around and from the top of Al Marwa, she looks down and she sees Gibl standing next to that tree. Is squirming there next to him. and he looks up at her and he touches his wing to the ground and the spring of Zem starts to come out of the ground. And so fast forward and the travelers of Jorum, they come by and they see birds circling over the valley of Mecca. And those birds only circle over water in that way. But they have traveled this desert for generations. And they know for a fact that there is no water over there. There is nothing but more emptiness and desert over there. There's nothing but more death over there. And so they send a scout and they see one of the most bizarre and excuse the term, one of the most creepiest sites you could ever see in the desert. Imagine yourself. You're traveling through the desert. You know this place very well. You come upon the valley of Mecca. You see birds. You look down. There's water coming out of the earth in the middle of the desert. And there's a woman with an infant child sitting there under a tree. No horse, no camel, no nothing. How did she get here? Where did she come from? That's the sight that you see. It's very bizarre. And so they asked her to come down and she said, "You can come down, but the water is mine." And so they agreed. And so they came down and they moved into that valley. And slowly over time, more and more families moved up from Yemen and settled in that valley of Mecca. And Ismael grew up amongst those original Arabs. And he learned two main things from them. He learned archery and he learned the Arabic language. And he became as the prophet describes him. He became the best of them at those two things. So the point that it said that is that is the first to ever have perfected the Arabic language and to have written it in you know written its its letters and to have digested it and wrote in the Arabic language. And so as he grew up, everyone was proud of Isah. And finally they married their daughter to him. And now is a young man. He's an archer. He's one of them. And he is married to their daughter. And we will continue this tomorrow inshallah.

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