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We Begin by praising Allah and bearing
witness that none has the right to be
worshiped or unconditionally obeyed
except for him and we bear witness that
Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam is
his final messenger we ask Allah to send
his peace and blessings upon him the
prophets and Messengers that came before
him his family and companions that
served alongside him and those that
follow in his blessed path until the day
of judgment I mean dear brothers and
sisters I want to take you back
to that moment
is running between the hills of asafa
and al-marwah with her son is
wanting to provide him with water and
subhanallah when you get into the
details of the Hadith of the Prophet
saws who actually explains the story as
if he's seeing it
then there are small things that have
packed meanings
amongst them is that hajjar ATI Allah
was breastfeeding
and she was the vessel by which Allah
was nourishing that baby boy and so she
would drink and eat whatever she could
find around her until she no longer had
anything from her own body to give to
Islam says
that she used up every drop of water
that she had left until she no longer
could feed her son and then she became
dehydrated and her son as well had
nothing to drink and then look at what
the prophet saws says about this moment
he says he
think of the scene
that looked at ismaeed
and she saw the pain that he was in
turning around groaning whining unable
to Bear the harshness of the environment
this baby and the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam says that she looked
away because she couldn't see her baby
in that pain anymore
this is the prophet saws I'm telling you
that
ran out of the ability to even look at
Islam
in this state and she started to run
between asafa and marwa and the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam says in the
Hadith that this is where the hajjad and
the people of umrah take the practice of
going between Safa and marwa and then
when she heard that voice or she heard
that sound of jibril as she was running
in desperation she called out whoever it
is that caused me to hear you whoever
you are I have no idea who you are
any help any water anything you can do
for us
and at that moment
the prophet saws says that she looked at
Salam with his heel struck the ground
and then zamzam comes bursting out
providing not just for her and her child
but bursting through the ground and he
says
goes to the ground and she starts to dig
the well around that bursting water and
he says
he said may Allah have mercy on the
mother of she would have left zamzam to
flow it would have flown throughout the
Earth meaning it would have flowed
throughout the Earth and touched every
single part of its surface
but she carved out that area of the Well
from which we benefit from today
why do I start with the story for the
particular subject that we have today
was looking for water for her child but
the Baraka of her Dua
was water for Generations after her from
which we still drink today that well
that is
struck open
when you go there and you drink zamzam
or when the hijabs come back and they
bring you that zamzam it is still
flowing from that very moment and that
is the barakah the blessing of the
sincerity of that woman and the
sincerity of that family
foreign
or comes back to raise the foundations
of the Kaaba with his son is
tells him now call out
the question that Ibrahim asked was
what's going to cause my voice to reach
people around the world and subhanallah
says
talking about the blessing of his voice
being able to reach people in his time
at that moment What's going to cause my
voice this man in the middle of a desert
to reach people but till now the call of
Ibrahim is being heard thousands of
years later and people are responding
the blessing of the dura of Ibrahim
so what's the connection here between
Dura and this specific concept of Baraka
which is more than what you could have
asked for more than what you
comprehended more than what you would
have ever dreamed of
what is it about the connection between
Dura and Baraka that we take from this
family in particular years later the
prophet sallallahu says
came back to visit Islam after his
mother had passed away so this is after
the death of hajjar
and it's a longer Hadith so I'll get to
the latter part of it in one sentence
from the messenger
The Story Goes that Ibrahim finds a
woman
in the house of Ismail that is his first
wife from the people of jurong who
surrounded them
and asked her how she was doing without
introducing himself and she thought he
was just an old Wayfarer and all she had
to say was things are terrible she
complained about the water she
complained about the lack of food she
complained about the difficulties
says when your husband comes home give
him Salah and tell him he should change
the Gate of his home
comes home
and says what happened today she says an
old man came by
and I invited him in he asked me how I
was doing I told him how we were doing
what did he say he said change the Gate
of the house
meant of course change her and so is
well that's a sign for my father I've
got to move on from you marries another
woman Ibrahim comes later and finds the
exact opposite person
a woman who was grateful who finds the
barakah the blessing of everything that
is in her home and listen what the
prophet saws says in detail
he says how is your situation
we are in good
and Allah has blessed us with much we're
living the life
we're living the life the circumstances
did not change the perspective changed
we're blessed alhamdulillah everything
is blessed everything is great all she
had to say was alhamdulillah and she
meant it and Ibrahimovic
and she started to praise Allah
and the prophet saws says Ibrahim asked
her
what do you eat I mean if you're living
the life like this if everything is
great what is it that you're eating she
said
we have some meat
he said what do you drink call it Alma
she said we drink water so this is the
prophet saws now narrating
oh Allah bless them in their meat and in
their water
they didn't have any grains they had no
wheat no grain
and if they had grain Ibrahim would have
blessed their grain as well he would
have asked Allah
in their grain as well
was it just that there was Baraka in
their home for their meat and their
water that Allah made it good for them
and Allah kept replenishing them the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam said
the prophet saws no people but the
people of Mecca have the Baraka in their
meat and their water that the people of
Mecca do no other people could survive
on meat and water without it harming
them except from the people of Mecca
because of the Ibrahim
that's the Baraka the replenishing the
establishment of a civilization a
prophet that comes amongst them that
guides them more precious than the food
and drink that they have and the prophet
saws saying the effect of the blessing
of Ibrahim on the little meat that he
saw in that house that day and the
little water that he saw in that house
today is still there thousands of years
later when you eat the meat and drink
the water of Mecca that's Baraka that's
the blessing of the family of Ibrahim
and it continues
that when we made Hijra
and we made our way to Medina the
prophet salallahu
an area that belonged
and the prophet saws said to us
bring me bring me some water to make
with
and so we brought
and the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam made will do it with that water
and then he faced the Qibla and he
raised his hands facing in the direction
of Mecca ibrahima
oh Allah
your servant Ibrahim your friend Ibrahim
your Prophet Ibrahim
for the people of Makkah
for barakah and you granted him that
and I am your slave and your messenger
and
him
a prophet saws I am your slave and
messenger calling upon you and I'm
asking you to bless the people of Medina
in their grains in their measurements
meaning their handful their mud all of
their measurements all of their grain
all of their water and for each blessing
that you gave to Mecca Let It Be doubled
for the people of Medina
and you benefit from that Baraka today
you go to Medina and the air is
different
everything is different about Medina
that's the Baraka of the dura of your
Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam who
based his Dua on the Baraka of the dura
of Ibrahim and as the scholars mentioned
Allah azzawajal himself blessed may
Allah
the place the land that we have blessed
for all time and we have even blessed
the land around it may Allah liberated
we see the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam praying for the Baraka of
different places in his own life
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bless us with our sham
bless us with our Yemen may Allah bless
the places of hasham and bless and free
them from their poverty and their
Devastation and increase them in that
blessing subhanallah look at even the
ownership our Sam our Yemen you talk
about how we think as an ummah the
prophet saws
but our sham our Yaman so when you look
at these places and you find them in
drought and Devastation you make Dua for
them as our sham and our Yaman and our
Philistine and our Somalia an hour Iraq
and whatever it may be they're ours
because we're one ummah and we pray for
Baraka for them the same way we pray for
barakah for ourselves the prophet
salallahu alaihi wasallam used to pray
for barakah in certain times
oh Allah bless my ummah and its morning
hours
and as the narrators mentioned that from
that Dura of the Prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam the ummah is more
productive spiritually and even
materially in its morning hours
that if a person were to start their day
early after Fajr they will find more
blessing in that time than any other
time of the day and that's from the dura
for Baraka from your Prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam we find it from the
messenger
that when he would pray for our family
he would say
Allah bless you in your family and in
your wealth when people would get
married he would say what
may Allah pour His blessings upon you
and between you it was a constant habit
of the prophet sallallahu
and now we say Eid Mubarak Barak Allah
but are you really thinking about what
you're saying and I want you to think
about this concept subhanallah that the
prophet saws taught us to even remove
Envy from ourselves by what
when you see someone who has something
that you start to covet inside
the prophet saws
may Allah bless you with that which you
have not only do you not covet it or
wish that it would be taken away from
that person and give it given to you you
even make Duran that Allah bless them to
the maximum extent with sincerity so
that they can benefit from that in a way
that is pleasing to Allah and pleasing
to them as well he taught us
a very powerful beautiful which is
expansive in this regard for Dua for
Baraka for ourselves he used to say
oh Allah forgive my sins
the number one reason why Baraka is not
present in something is because there's
the Disobedience of Allah in that thing
if you want to lose in your health you
use it in a way that's displeasing to
Allah you want to lose Baraka and your
wealth you use it in a way that's
displeasing to Allah that means no
matter how much you have it will not be
blessed and no good will come from it
so Allah
and then the prophet saws
and Grant me expanse in my home that's
not a due out for the increase in square
footage
if someone has Baraka in their home if
it's a small apartment
they will find expanse in it and if
someone has no buttock in their home it
could be a six thousand square foot
house
and it'll feel like a grave
it's about Barack and that home there's
something very profound about this as
well that it's an existing blessing so I
already have a doubt and I'm asking
Allah to bless me and what I already
have
and bless me in that which you provide
me
so the existing blessings and the new
blessings let them come with the Baraka
of Allah
in conclusion dear brothers and sisters
they're in the might talk about this
contradiction of
to ask Allah for blessing with the
intention of Disobedience disobeying him
to ask Allah for a blessing with the
intention of disobeying him you walk up
to someone and say make sure that Allah
lets me get this job
that Allah lets me get this position
make Dua that Allah facilitates this for
me but your intention all along is to
use that place or to use that position
or use that possession in a way that's
not necessarily pleasing to Allah
and when you say Bismillah which opens
Baraka for whatever it is that you're
going to do in the name of Allah your
intention is to do with that blessing
what is pleasing to Allah and when you
say alhamdulillah after you recognize a
blessing
Allah increases you so that you can
increase in gratitude and hence be
eternally blessed
and so
is sought through the intention to do
good the intention to do that which is
pleasing to Allah
and Marcia and sin is what is
self-defeating in regards to the request
for Baraka and that's why
um
tells his people if you seek forgiveness
from Allah
Allah will pour His blessings upon you
and around you in every single way why
because it is sins that deplete and sins
that remove any blessing and any request
for Baraka so we ask Allah to bless us
in all that we have and in all that we
ask him for and in all that he gives us
and to make us amongst the blessed to
make us amongst those who are accepted
and to make us amongst those those who
enjoy the Most Blessed position with our
prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam in
the highest levels of
Salaam