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- Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam has left Hajar and Ismail
in the desert.
In that time, Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la
has sent Jibreel Alayhi Salaam to them,
opened the Well of Zamzam,
and a people have settled around them
as was the du'a of Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam.
And the tribe of Jurhum comes;
Ismail Alayhi Salaam marries from that tribe.
He starts his own family and Hajar has passed away.
And now, Ismail is amongst his people Alayhi Salaam
establishing salah.
He's not worried about the fact
that Ishaaq and Yaqoob Alayhimu's-Salaam
and the other side of the family of Ibraham
is getting all of the praise and all of the growth.
Ismail is satisfied with his seemingly small scope, right?
And this is part of his sincerity
and his promise to his father.
He does as he is commanded by Allah,
he is submissive just like his father
is to Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la's command
and to Allah's scope,
not knowing that one day, Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la
will make of him a great nation
through Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
Then Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam comes back years later.
At this point, Ismail Alayhi Salaam has grown
and he says to his son Ismail
that Allah has commanded me to raise the foundations
of his sacred home,
(speaking in Arabic)
Will you support me in doing so?
Ismail Alayhi Salaam, of course,
was submissive and said yes.
Now, I want you to think about
Ibrahim and Ismail Alayhimu's-Salaam building the Ka'bah.
No one there, it's just them two
raising the foundations of the Ka'bah, stone by stone.
And as they put it together,
Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam raises his hands
and Ismail Alayhi Salaam raises his hands
to make du'a to supplicate.
And it's just those two around the Ka'bah.
And Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam's first du'a is what?
"Rabbana taqabbal minna." [2:127]
Oh our Lord, accept from us.
"Rabbana taqabbal minna." [2:127]
And this is incredible, right?
As one of the scholars pointed out,
Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam is asking Allah for acceptance.
Even though he is a chosen servant,
Allah chose him to build the Ka'bah in a specified place,
gave him a specified command.
Everything was clearly set out for Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam
by Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la to do what he did.
Yet, Ibrahim is still concerned
out of his sincerity for acceptance.
And this is actually a really important note
in sincerity and in intention
that sometimes, though your intention might be pure
in the first place,
you might lose it at some point.
And so we learn from Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam
the post du'a, after you do a good deed,
ask Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la to accept it
because something might have went wrong along the way
with your intention, first and foremost.
Something might have deviated at some point.
So, we already saw in the previous lessons
that Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam
was still asking Allah to protect him from idol worship,
was still asking Allah to allow him to be amongst
those that established the prayer, and here,
Ya Allah, accept!
Accept this deed that I have done for your sake.
And we learn that for ourselves.
So he has sincerity.
And part of sincerity as well
is that Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam does not just stop there.
He says, "Arina manasikana." [2:128]
He asks Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la
to show us the way to do these rituals,
show us what to do next.
And there are two things that make a deed acceptable
in the sight of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la.
Number one, sincerity;
number two correctness. Right?
So, it is sincerity and then it is sunnah in methodology.
And in this case, that is going to be taught
to Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam directly.
We find this embedded in Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam's du'a
for Allah to send us a Prophet.
Okay?
"Rabbana wa-ib'ath fihim rasulan min'hum yatlu 'alayhim
"ayatika wayu'allimuhumul kitabul hikma." [2:129]
So, Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la is being asked
by Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam
to send a Prophet to us
that will not just recite the verses to us,
but that will teach us the book
and its hikma and its wisdom.
And Imam Al-Shafi'i Rahimahullah says that's the sunnah
of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
Why? Because it is very easy to sincerity,
your way out sometimes, out of the sunnah.
To say my intentions are good,
so, I'm just gonna worship the way I feel like worshiping.
I'm gonna do things the way I feel like doing things.
And Ibrahim is teaching us in both what he asks
for himself and his son,
as well as what he asked for the Prophet
and within the Prophet that would be sent to us,
that we not just be sincere in our hearts,
but we be sincere in our pursuits in following the correct
ways that Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la
gives to us to worship him.
And how does Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la reward that du'a
or accept that du'a?
So obviously, "Rabbana taqabbal minna." [2:127]
You know, the acceptance is there.
Allah quotes the du'a of Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam,
that sincere du'a where he's asking
Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la for acceptance.
But what happens next?
Allah, who sent Jibreel Alayhi Salaam
to the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
to teach him the prayer, to lead him in salah,
so when you pray, you are praying the way
that Jibreel taught the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
how to pray.
Allah sends Jibreel Alayhi Salaam
to Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam
and every single step of the Hajj,
every one of the manasik of the Hajj,
Jibreel Alayhi Salaam teaches
Ibrahim its performance.
And that is the way that we do Hajj now.
SubhanAllah, so that when a person goes sincerely
for the sake of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la for Hajj,
may Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la enable us all
to have a Hajj Mabroor, an accepted Hajj in our lives,
to have the intention for it,
and to allow us to carry it out sincerely and properly.
We are doing the same manasik, the same rituals
that Jibreel Alayhi Salaam taught Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam
and that Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
revived and we ask Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la
to accept from us
and to allow us to be sincere in our intentions
and to be guided to the correct ways
of following him, Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la,
or following his way Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la
through the way of our Messenger
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.