Prophet Abraham

PROPHET ABRAHAM Marwah. There she heard a voice. Wanting to listen to the voice, she told herself to keep quiet. When she tried to listen, she heard the same voice again. She said, “If you have made your voice heard to me, then can you help us in this situation?” She observed that there was an angel near the station of Zamzam. The angel struck the ground with his heel or wing, and water gushed forth. Hajar started constructing a basin-like structure and used her hands to gather the sand around it. The more water she poured into her water bag, the more it would well up like a spring. Ibn Abbas narrates that the Messenger of God said that God had shown mercy to Hajar. If she had left Zamzam as it is Zamzam would have turned into a flowing spring. Hajar drank from the water and gave it to her son. The angel said to Hajar, “Do not fear abandonment. This is the House of God, and both this child and his father will build this House. God does not abandon His people.” Hajar lived in this manner for some time. She continued until some people from the Jurhum tribe or the inhabitants of Jurhum’s settlement approached from the direction of Kada’. They descended into the mountainous part of Makkah. There, they noticed a bird flying around and concluded, “This bird must be flying over water. We have lived in this valley, and there