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Episode 8: When Abraham Met Muhammad ﷺ

July 29, 2020Dr. Omar Suleiman

Thousands of years after he made the most critical supplication to Allah, Ibrahim (pbuh) met the greatest answer to his du’a in the heavens.

What is Hajj? Why is it important? Learn more in What Islam says about Hajj and Umrah

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Rabbana wabaAAath feehim rasoolan minhum yatloo AAalayhim aayaatika wayuAAallimuhumul kitaba walhikma wayuzakkihim innaka anta alAAazeezu alhakeem Ibrahim Alayhi Salam finishes this du'a as he completes the construction of the Ka'bah by saying Our Lord send amongst them a messenger yatloo AAalayhim aayaatika that will recite your verses upon them wayuAAallimuhumul kitaba walhikma and will teach them the book and its wisdom wayuzakkihim and purify them with those words and verily you are alAAazeezu alhakeem you are the exalted in might, the wise and then you see an answer and the answer is obviously the person of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam but this du'a that's in Surat Al-Baqarah is answered in the very beginning of Surat Al-Jumu'ah where Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la says huwa allathee baAAath feehim rasoolan minhum yatloo AAalayhim aayaatika wayuzakkihim wayuAAallimuhumul kitaba walhikma and verily you are alAAazeezu alhakeem you are the exalted in might, the wise and then you see an answer huwa allathee baAAath feehim rasoolan minhum yatloo AAalayhim aayaatika wayuzakkihim wayuAAallimuhumul kitaba walhikma Allah says he is the one who sent amongst the unlettered a Prophet meaning the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam that would recite the verses upon them wayuzakkihim and purify them with the verses and teach them the book and its wisdom so Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la did not just answer the du'a of Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam thousands of years later he perfected it and how did he do so? the order is switched up Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam asked for all the right things but Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam put taskiya to be purified with those verses after teaching them the book and its wisdom and Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la is making it a point as it is in Surat Al-Jumu'ah that taskiya 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 du'a of Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam is perfected in the person of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam 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 SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam now I want you to fast forward thousands of years later and think of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam as he is now approached by Jibreel Alayhi Salaam and Jibreel has the buraq, the same animal that according to those narrations Ibrahim, Hajar and Ismail rode from Palestine to Mecca and now the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam 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 Alayhi Salaam as he was making du'a for the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam in Mecca right, for this blessed son of his in Mecca as he was building the Kaaba and then the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam leads the Prophets in prayer in Jerusalem and Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala opens the gates of the heavens for him and he ascends with Jibreel Alayhi Salaam 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 Alayhi Salaam says it is I and he says and who is with you he says Muhammad SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
the gatekeeper says Urseela Ilayh was he already sent for and Jibreel Alayhi Salaam says yes and the keeper of that gate greets the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam who then meets one of the Prophets starting with Adam Alayhi Salaam who greets the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam as the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam ascends he gets to the seventh heaven and when he gets to the seventh heaven Alayhi Salaatu Wasallam and the keeper asks Jibreel Alayhi Salaam who is it and who is with him and he says Muhammad SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam the gate opens and the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam says I see my grandfather Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam with his back to Al-Bayt Al-Ma'mur his back to the Kaaba of the heavens the frequently visited home of the heavens where 70,000 angels enter every day and they do Tawaf and they worship Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and they never return SubhanAllah think about that Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam who built the Kaaba of the earth and asked Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala for a sun that would purify that Kaaba and that would uphold the intent of that house of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and now he is seeing that sun of his with his back against the equivalent of the Kaaba in the heavens and the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam looks at him and he says Wallahi I've never seen a man who looks more like me so you know as the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam was describing all of the other Prophets and how they looked he said my father Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam I've never seen a man that looks more like me and Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam has his back to Al-Bayt Al-Ma'mur and he looks at the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam and imagine the joy in Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam when he sees the answer of his dua in the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam and the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam says so I said Salam to him As-Salamu Alaikum Wa Rahmatullah and he responded Wa Alaikum As-Salam Wa Rahmatullah
and he says Marhaban Bil Ibn As-Saleh Greetings to this righteous son Wal-Nabi As-Saleh and this righteous Prophet All of the Prophets between Adam and Ibrahim greeted the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam as a noble brother Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam and Adam Alayhi Salaam said A righteous son Marhaban Bil Ibn As-Saleh Welcome to this righteous son and to this righteous Prophet SubhanAllah this meeting is even more poetic when you consider that the journey of Al-Isra' Wa Al-Mi'raj started from Hijr Ismail it started from the very same place that Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam had constructed for his family, for his son Ismail and for his wife Hajar at those times and here he is now with the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam in front of him and SubhanAllah this is the culmination of that dua and this is the elevation of Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam and in those moments where Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam meets the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam he is not just pleased with the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam but he is also pleased with his Ummah
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