Commemorating Spirit Of Sacrifice These Blessed Days❤️
A’oodhu-Billahi-Minash-shaytanir-Rajeem.
Bismillah-ir-Rahman-ir-Raheem.
Laa ilaaha illallaah Muhammad’ur Rasoolullah.
Assalamu-Alaikum-wa-Rahmatullahi-wa-Barakaatahu.
🤲 Rabbij ‘alnee muqeemas Salaati wa min zurriyyatee Rabbanaa wa taqabbal du’aa.
رَبِّ اجْعَلْنِي مُقِيمَ الصَّلَاةِ وَمِنْ ذُرِّيَّتِي ۚ رَبَّنَا وَتَقَبَّلْ دُعَاءِ
[My Lord, make me an establisher of prayer, and (many) from my descendants. Our Lord, and accept my supplication.]
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🟪 Ibrahim’s Emigration, the Test of the Sacrifice of Isma`il, and how Allahﷻ blessed Him
(Taken from Tafseer Ibn Katheer – verses 37:99 to 37:108)
[May Peace & Mercy of Allahﷻ be upon all the messengers & narrators.]
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Allahﷻ tells us that after He helped His close friend Ibrahim, peace be upon him, against his people, and after Ibrahim gave up hoping that they would ever believe despite all the mighty signs that they had witnessed, he emigrated away from them, and said:
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🔹Verily, I am going to my Lord. He will guide me! My Lord! Grant me (offspring) from the righteous.
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meaning, obedient children, in compensation for his people and relatives whom he had left.
Allah said:
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🔹So We gave him the glad tidings of a forbearing boy.
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This child was Isma`il, peace be upon him, for he was the first child of whom glad tidings were given to Ibrahim, peace be upon him, and he was older than Ishaq. The Muslims and the People of the Book agree, and indeed it is stated in their Book, that Isma`il, peace be upon him, was born when Ibrahim, peace be upon him, was eighty-six years old, and Ishaq was born when Ibrahim was ninety-nine years old.
The firstborn son has a special status that is not shared by subsequent children, so the command to sacrifice him is a more exquisite test.
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🔹And, when he (his son) was old enough to walk with him,
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means, when he grew up and started to go with his father and walk with him, for Ibrahim used to go every so often to check on his son and his mother in the land of Faran (i.e., Makkah), to see how they were doing. It was said that he used to ride on Al-Buraq, traveling there swiftly, and Allah knows best.
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🔹And, when he (his son) was old enough to walk with him, he said: “O my son! I have seen in a dream that I am slaughtering you. So look what you think!”
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`Ubayd bin `Umayr said, “The dreams of the Prophets are revelation,” then he recited this Ayah:
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🔹he said: “O my son! I have seen in a dream that I am slaughtering you. So look what you think!”.
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He told his son that in order to make it easier for him, and also to test his patience and resolve, at a young age, in obeying Allah and obeying his father.
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🔹He said: “O my father! Do that which you are commanded…”
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meaning, `obey the command of Allah and sacrifice me.’
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🔹if Allah wills, you shall find me of the patient.
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meaning, `I will be patient and will seek the reward for that with Allah.’ He, may peace and blessings be upon him, believed in what had been promised. Allah said:
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🔹And mention in the Book Isma`il. Verily, he was true to what he promised, and he was a Messenger, (and) a Prophet. And he used to enjoin on his family the Salah and the Zakah, and his Lord was pleased with him. (19:54-55).
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🔹Then, when they had both submitted themselves, and he had laid him prostrate on his forehead;)
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means, when both of them had pronounced the Shahadah and remembered Allah — Ibrahim because he was about to offer a sacrifice and Isma`il because he was about to die. Or it was said that “submitted themselves” means that they submitted and followed the command of Allah; Ibrahim obeyed the command of Allah and Isma`il obeyed Allah and his father.
Imam Ahmad recorded that Ibn `Abbas, may Allah be pleased with him, said,
♦️”When the rituals were enjoined upon Ibrahim, peace be upon him, the Shaytan appeared to him at the Mas`a and raced with him, but Ibrahim got there first.
♦️Then Jibril, upon him be peace, took him to Jamrat Al-`Aqabah and the Shaytan appeared to him, so he stoned him with seven pebbles until he disappeared.
♦️Then he appeared him at Al-Jamrah Al-Wusta and he stoned him with seven pebbles.
♦️Then he laid him prostrate on his face.
♦️Isma`il, peace be upon him, was wearing a white shirt, and he said, `O my father, I do not have any garment in which I can be shrouded apart from this; take it off me so that you can shroud me in it.’
♦️He started to take it off, then he was called from behind:
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🔹O Ibrahim! You have fulfilled the dream!
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Ibrahim turned, and saw a fine, horned, white ram.” Ibn `Abbas said, “We used to look for similar types of rams.” Hisham mentioned this Hadith at length in Al-Manasik.
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🔹We called out to him: “O Ibrahim! You have fulfilled the dream!”
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means, `the purpose of your dream has been fulfilled by your laying down your son to sacrifice him.’ As-Suddi and others said that he passed the knife over Isma`il’s neck, but it did not cut him at all, because a sheet of copper was placed between them. Ibrahim was called at that point, and it was said:
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🔹You have fulfilled the dream!
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Allah says;
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🔹Verily, thus do We reward the doers of good.
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means, `this is how We deal with those who obey Us in things that are difficult for them; We make for them a way out.’ As Allah says:
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🔹And whosoever has Taqwa of Allah, He will make a way for him to get out (from every difficulty). And He will provide him from (sources) he never could imagine. And whosoever puts his trust in Allah, then He will suffice him. Verily, Allah will accomplish his purpose. Indeed Allah has set a measure for all things.) (65:2-3).
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♥️The purpose of His command had been primarily to reward His close Friend for his patience and resolve in sacrificing his son. Allah says:
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🔹Verily, that indeed was a manifest trial.
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meaning, it was clearly a test when he was commanded to sacrifice his son, so, he hastened to do it, in submission to the command of Allah and in obedience to Him. Allah said:
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🔹And of Ibrahim who fulfilled all that. (53:37), and
🔹And We ransomed him with a great sacrifice.
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It was reported that Ibn `Abbas, may Allah be pleased with him, said, “A ram which had grazed in Paradise for forty years.”
Imam Ahmad recorded that Safiyyah bint Shaybah said, “A woman from Bani Sulaym, who was the midwife of most of the people in our household, told me that the Messenger of Allah sent for `Uthman bin Talhah, may Allah be pleased with him.” On one occasion she said, “I asked `Uthman, `Why did the Prophet call you’ He said, `The Messenger of Allahﷺ said to me,
I saw the horns of the ram when I entered the House i.e., the Ka`bah, and I forgot to tell you to cover them up; cover them up, for there should not be anything in the House which could distract the worshipper.”‘
Sufyan said, “The horns of the ram remained hanging in the House until it was burned, and they were burned too.”
The Quraysh had inherited the horns of the ram that Ibrahim sacrificed, and they had been passed down from generation to generation, until the Messenger of Allahﷺ was sent. And Allahﷻ knows best.
Only Allāh subḥānahu wa ta’āla knows the best…
All the praise and appreciation is due to Allah…
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🤲 Rabbighfirli wali’waalidayya.
رَّبِّ ٱغْفِرْ لِى وَلِوَٰلِدَىَّ
[My Lord! Forgive me and my parents.]
🤲 Allāhumma inni as’alukal Jannatul Firdous wa a’oodhu bika minnan-naar.
اللَّهُمَّ اِنّي أَسْئَلُكَ الجَنّةُ الفِردَوْس، وأعُوْذْوبِكَ مِنَ النَّار
[O Allah, I ask you for gardens of firdous (Jannatul Firdous) and I seek refuge from the fire.]
🤲 Allāhumma salli wa sallim ‘alaa Nabiyyinaa Muhammadin.
اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ وَ سَلِّمْ عَلَى نَبِيِّنَا مُحَمَّدٍ
[O Allah, we ask for your peace and blessings upon our Prophet Muhammad.]
🤲 Sub’haana rabbika rabbil ‘izzati amma yasifun wa salaamun alal mursaleen wal’hamdulillahi rabbil aalameen.
سُبْحَانَ رَبِّكَ رَبِّ الْعِزَّةِ عَمَّا يَصِفُونَ، وَسَلَامٌ عَلَى الْمُرْسَلِينَ، وَالْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ
[Exalted is your Lord, the Lord of might, above what they describe. And peace upon the messengers. And praise to Allah, Lord of the worlds.]
🤲 Sub’haanaka Allāhumma wa bi hamdika, ash’hadu an laa ilaaha illa anta, astaghfiruka wa atubu ilayka.
سُبْحَانَكَ اللَّهُمَّ وَبِحَمْدِكَ أَشْهَدُ أَنْ لاَ إِلَهَ إِلاَّ أَنْتَ أَسْتَغْفِرُكَ وَأَتُوبُ إِلَيْكَ
[Glorified be You, O Allāh, our Lord, I praise You. There is no god but You. I seek Your forgiveness and repent (of my sins) to You.]
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