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Rabbana waba'ath feehim rasoolan minhum yatloo 'alayhim
ayatika wayu 'allimuhi alkitaba
wal hikma wayuzakkeehim innaka anta al 'azeezul hakeem
Ibrahim (as) finishes this dua'
as he completes the construction of the Ka'aba,
by saying, "Our Lord, send amongst them a messenger..."
yatloo 'alaihim ayatika
"...that will recite your verses upon them..."
wayu 'allimuhul kitaba wal hikma
"...and will teach them the Book and its wisdom..."
wayuzakkeehim
"...and purify them with those words."
And verily, You are al-Aziz al-Hakim.
You are the Exalted in Might, the Wise,
and then you see an answer.
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(wind blows)
And the answer is obviously
the person of the Prophet (SAW)
but this dua' that's in Suratil Baqarah,
is answered in the very beginning of Suratil Jumu'ah.
Where Allah (swt) says,
Huwallazee ba'atha feeal-ummiyyeena rasoolan minhum
yatloo 'alayhim ayatihi wayuzakkeehim
wayu 'allimuhumul kitaba wal hikmah
Allah says, "He is the one who sent amongst the unlettered
a prophet..."
Meaning the Prophet (saw)
"...that would recite the verses upon them..."
wayu zakkeehim
"...and purify them with the verses
and teach them the Book and it's wisdom."
So Allah (swt) did not just answer the dua' of Ibrahim (as)
thousands of years later,
he perfected it.
And how did he do so?
The order is switched up.
Ibrahim (as) asked for all the right things,
but it brought Ibrahim (as) put tazkiya,
to be purified with those verses
after teaching them the Book and it's wisdom.
And Allah (swt) is making it a point
as it is in Suratil Jumu'ah,
that tazkiya comes first.
Internalizing those verses is
far more important,
than the external practice.
The external practice will only remain sound
so long as the heart remains sincere.
And so the dua' Ibrahim (as) is perfected
in the person of the Prophet (saw).
Who would recite these verses, the verses of the Quran.
Who would demonstrate those verses in action
with his sunnah.
And who would find a people whose hearts would be penetrated
with those words first and foremost
so that they would stay true to the intent of that sunnah.
And that was most demonstrated
in the companions of the Prophet (saw).
Now, I want you to fast forward thousands of years later,
and think of the Prophet (saw),
as he is now approached by Jibreel (as).
And Jibreel has the buraaq,
the same animal that according to those narrations
Ibrahim (speaks in arabic)
and Ismail, rode from Palestine to Mecca,
and now the Prophet (saw) is to ascend that animal
to embark on a journey from Mecca to Palestine,
specifically al-Quds, specifically Jerusalem.
The same animal his grandfather had rode.
And think about Ibrahim (as)
as he was making dua' for the Prophet (saw) in Mecca,
right,
for this blessed son of his in Mecca
as he was building the Ka'aba,
And then the Prophet (saw)
leads the prophets in prayer, in Jerusalem,
and Allah (swt) opens the gates of the heavens for him.
And he ascends with Jibreel (as)
through the gates of the heavens.
And he meets prophet after prophet.
Every time he gets to one of those gates,
the keeper of the gate says, who is it?
And Jibreel (as) says it is I,
and he says, and who is with you?
He says, Muhammad (saw).
The gatekeeper says,
'oursila ilayh
was he already sent for?
And Jibreel (as) says yes
and the keeper of that gate greets the Prophet (saw)
who then meets one of the prophets,
starting with Adam (as) who greets the Prophet (saw).
As the Prophet (saw) ascends,
he gets to the seventh heaven.
When he gets to the seventh heaven,
and the keeper asks Jibreel, who is it?
And who is with him? And he says, Muhammad (saw),
the gate opens and the Prophet (saw) says,
I see my grandfather Ibrahim (as)
with his back to al-Baitul Ma'mur.
His back to the Ka'aba of the heavens,
the frequently visited home of the heavens
where 70,000 angels enter every day
and they do tawaaf, and they worship Allah (swt)
and they never return.
Subhanallah, think about that,
Ibrahim (as) who built the Ka'aba of the earth,
and asked Allah (swt) for a son
that would purify that Ka'aba,
and that would uphold the intent,
of that house of Allah (swt),
and now he is seeing that son of his,
with his back against
the equivalent of the Ka'aba in the heavens,
and the Prophet (saw) looks at him and he says,
Wallahi, I've never seen a man who looks more like me.
So, you know, as the Prophet (saw)
was describing all of the other prophets
and how they looked,
he said, my father Ibrahim (as),
"I've never seen a man that looks more like me."
And Ibrahim (as) has his back to al-Baitul Ma'mur,
and he looks at the Prophet (saw),
and imagine the joy in Ibrahim (as)
when he sees the answer of his dua'
in the Prophet (saw),
and the prophet (saw) says,
so I said salaam to him.
AsSalaam Alaikum Warahmatullah,
and he responded Waalaikum Salaam Warahmatullah,
and he says,
marhaban bil ibnis salih
greetings to this righteous son,
wan nabi us-salih
and this righteous Prophet.
All of the prophets between Adam and Ibrahim,
greeted the Prophet (saw) as a noble brother.
Ibrahim (as) and Adam (as) said, a righteous son,
marhaban bil ibnis salih
welcome to this righteous son,
and to this righteous Prophet.
SubhanAllah, this meaning is even more poetic
when you consider,
that the journey of al-Israa' wal Mira'aj started from,
Hijr Ismail, it started from
the very same place, that Ibrahim (as),
had constructed for his family,
for his son Ismail, and for his wife Hajrah at those times,
and here he is now,
with the Prophet (saw) in front of him.
And SubhanAllah, this is the culmination of that dua'
and this is the elevation of Ibrahim (as)
and in those moments where
Ibrahim (as) meets the Prophet (saw),
he is not just pleased with the Prophet (saw),
but he's also pleased with his ummah.
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