Stories Which Gives Us HOPE

The Story Of Ibrahim (AS) -•-Part two-•-

[The Friend Of Allah]

Ibrahim (AS) decided to leave his wife and his child, and they hardly had much to eat. It is reported; just a day of two of food and drink and he started walking. His wife looks at him and she starts questioning him: “Where are you going? What’s happening?” He didn’t answer, he just carried on. Then she decided, there is only one thing that can be happening here. It can only be an instruction of Allah (SWT). So she says, “Is it Allah who has instructed you to do this?” that is when he said yes, and he continued walking. At that moment she also surrendered. And she decided not to question further. And she knew for a fact that Allah was going to look after them. Now as Ibrahim (AS) left, he began to just make dua.

Ismail (AS) was breastfed for a while and then the food ran out and everything dried up, Subhanallah. And the mother (Haajar) is looking at the child and says, “No, I must make an effort to try and look for some food.”
So she decided to go up the hillock, the mount Safa. She went up the mountain and she’s looking… “Is there any sign? No sign, no life, no movement, no nothing.” So she came down making dua to Allah and when she gets to the bottom, she’s running. Why is she running at the bottom? Because she wants to get to the top of the other mountain on the other side and she doesn’t want to miss anyone who might pass whilst she’s at the bottom. So she runs at a specific place and then she climbs up, she is in Marwa. She makes dua again for sustenance,” Ya Allah, send us some goodness, Ya Allah, you are the one, we know you will not let us down.” and a couples of times she ran up and down, and down and up, Allah Akbar! Making dua, looking, checking.
Then she heard a sound and she’s looking, what sound is this? She came down and she looked at where the child was, and there was a spring of water gushing from nowhere. Subhanallah! A spring of water gushing from nowhere, she looked at it and she thanked Allah (SWT).  She sat down and she wanted to gather the water, so she created a basin like structure, small little basin like structure with her hands with the muddy sand that now became like clay and mud because it was wet. So she began to say in the language: zam zam zam zam, it means stop stop stop. Because we want to now take you and drink you, so you stop.

To this day we have this water known as Zam zam from the same well. And for your information, it is gushing at this moment, thousands of gallons per hour, and millions of people across the globe drink from it.

After some time, the birds began to come. When the birds began to come and they were drinking from there in the middle of the desert, no life was there. And caravans used to pass, and in the heat of the moment they’re looking for birds. Why are they look for birds? Not to hunt the birds, but whatever you see a bird, you know there is some water nearby.

The clan of Jurhum was passing from that area and they noticed some birds in the middle of nowhere. They were not expecting them. So they decided to check up on what is happening, and they sent someone. ‘Go and see where these birds are flying to.’ So the birds had gone and they were sitting around this well and the water was gushing, they were drinking. And this messenger finds a woman with a little baby. So he went back to his people, the people of Jurhum, the caravan and he explained to them. They were very amazed.
They came, they knew this is a miracle so they asked the women, do you mind if we live here? Why, because there’s water running from here, it’s gushing, that doesn’t happen in that particular desert. Doesn’t happen. Water gushing from underneath.
So when they asked her the question, she looked at them and responded very beautifully. Firstly, look at how honest they were, they were good people. Can we come stay here? Because they understood it’s a miracle. So from that she realized these people have a good character, they are disciplined people, and they are cultured.
So she said, look! You can come and stay here on condition that this water belongs to us, not to you. We will allow you to drink from it, but it’s our property, not yours. So you can drink and benefit.