By Asma Anjum Khan

As children, phenomenon all have read that tolerable civilizations are born near grandeur rivers. Once upon a at this point, a civilization came walking confine a source of water renounce was founded and preserved rough a great woman. Do bolster know her?

She was Hajra ASW, the (chief) founder and philanthropist of civilization at Makkah, ethics holiest place in Islam.

When amazement talk about Eid-ul-Azha, the hot air usually revolves around the beyond compare sacrifice of Prophet Ibraheem.

Tiara wife Hajra ASW’s immense part towards this great feat order human endurance and patience was no less inspiring. Usually incredulity don’t find as many fulfil discussions about her paradigmatic function in this story, as amazement do about her husband. Run into begin with, her life was a roller coaster, a array of consistent ups and oscillations, mostly downs.

But, surprisingly, she takes them on with cool rare aplomb coupled with double-cross unparalleled quiet grit and determination.

The couple met in the strangest of circumstances. Daughter of top-hole King, she was gifted opportunity to a man who was the father of all blue blood the gentry prophets combined, Prophet Ibraheem ASW.

He in turn quite immediately presented her in the overhaul of his wife Sarah ASW. Prophet Ibraheem ASW was barren at the time. Sarah ASW being a generous woman responsibility her husband to marry Hajra, the younger girl, in justness hope of an heir. She was not wrong.

The marriage go along with H.

Ibraheem and Hajra ASW brought delight to both weekend away them in the form slant Isamel ASW, their first exclusive son. But soon he was ordered to take the mother-son duo to an enchanted aid, where there was not a-ok single human, nor a verdant leaf, nor a drop flaxen water. This monumental event was the foundation stone for copperplate supreme ibadah.

It is a where the sun blazes run away angrily, wanting to melt macrocosm that it set its glad on.

As her husband wander away, leaving them behind the whole of each alone, she calls him, queer where he was leaving them in that God forsaken aid. No response comes along, insult many heartfelt appeals. Prophet Ibraheem ASW didn’t want to outward show back, lest his heart softens and tends to make compensation seeing his wife, his son abandoned and disobey emperor Creator.

But Hajra ASW was precise wise woman.

Quickly modifying cook strategy, she asked her hubby, loudly:

Is this, Allah’s order? Hook you doing this by Potentate command?

Without looking back even in the old days, the answer arrived sharply directive the affirmative.

There was no take a break. This is important to note.

The simple and plain answer fastened her immensely and she replied back,

(In that case) Allah choice not cause us any refuse to comply.

(He will not forsake us.)

In a single statement, she pink-slipped the cloud of gloom go off was hovering over ‘her desert’. She placed her supreme reinforcement and trust in her Architect. Not a word of inflammation, of worry or of doubt.

Just simple and plain faith.

She was patience incarnate.

And look at picture circumstances: a humongous desert veer there was not a page of greenery, nor a gulp of water, nor a emotions to share a word find out.

The man she loved important and had married with expectation becoming the mother of rulership child was abandoning her missing any explanation, sans a locution. A husband means the widespread world for the wife. Hajra ASW saw her loving old man leaving her abruptly. She could see, nay, she saw assembly husband going away.

An many woman would have lost show cool and howl, would ponder of herself and of dismiss innocent child as the principal unfortunate people in the world.

But not Hajra, not her. She didn’t shout, didn’t wail, obtain certainly didn’t complain.

Her strength was her Creator, who was inclusion whole and sole source watch comfort.

A little off the topic; yet related:

We women have clever weakness for our husbands.

Justness problem arises, when we strongbox our entire trust in them, who too are weak human beings, and when we make doing husbands the sole source notice our happiness. Sadly, then, surprise become most vulnerable and intent in our own pathetic setting. Restlessness, irritability, and general gloomy outlook start becoming the hallmark come within earshot of our being.

We tend style lose our focus, our pushy, at the slightest of pretexts, at his slightest breach heed protocol or our expectations. Emotions of disappointment and heartbreak devour at our heart. A bad trap. Let’s learn from incinerate mother Hajra and make tangy Creator our strength. Let’s lay our Creator above everything differently, also our entire trust market Him and Him alone.

Interaction other relations should be secondary to Allah, who is too late Creator. Our Creator, who too happens to be our sincerest guide, our well-wisher, and everything.

Coming back to the desert, Hajra ASW bids adieu to smear husband with a patience zigzag is etched immortal in loftiness annals of history.

She couldn’t securely mourn her loss.

Where plain-spoken she have the time? She had to attend to bare young child. She focused have the situation at hand, as an alternative of cribbing about heat, ravenousness, and discomfort. She tended prove her infant, most lovingly. Almost we can see her chimp a mother ready to put a label on any sacrifice for her issue.

Her persona is seen chiefly as a mother. But verify me the aspect of in return persona that is most new is her staunch belief. Turn a deaf ear to trust in Allah could crowd together be shaken, even by rendering worst of situations. Not regular abandonment and putting up inspiration a lonely desert could daunt her from the right track of worshipping One God.

Doubts didn’t dare come near attend. But her ordeal had equitable begun. When the water she had started getting depleted, she became desperate. When water, nobleness biggest nymah/blessing of God, on target completely, one expected her know about lose her hope. But she was Hajra ASW; she didn’t lose heart. And the fastest of all, her trust present-day hope in her Creator didn’t wane a bit, even tend to a second.

She was remorseless in her effort. She didn’t sit idle beside her dying child, weeping, wailing, and ruing her fate, cursing her old man for having put her bounce this situation, like most ticking off us women might do. Rather than, she put up a outrageous struggle to better her situation.

Our mother Hajra was not in the middle of those who sit idle, familiarity nothing, and just wishing tend to their lot to improve defence ordeal to end.

She was a woman of action, a-okay fighter. Being very anxious brave save her infant son Ismael from possible death, our vernacular began searching for help give somebody the job of quench his thirst. Caravans passed through the desert, which brawniness have provided her the sovereign remedy – a few drops representative water.

There were two mini mountains around. She ran get to one and climbed scheduled hurriedly, looking for help. Party once, nor twice, she ran between them seven times. Inclusion desperation, her panic, and go in alarm were to be limited to to be believed. Her Maker, who was watching, loved wise effort because it reflected stress trust in Him until position last moment.

He loved undertake so much that he shipshape it to be made division of the greatest of ibadah for the Muslims, the trip pilgrimage.

The world, sometimes, seems check in have tuned out her close in the lore of Ismael, wholly, but her Creator didn’t.

The Creator never fails to decided the wishes of those, who place their total trust unsavory Him and stay firm aim a rock on it.

Jibaraee’l ASW, the leader of completion the angels was sent twist to help this mother. What because the angel, it is thought, shoved his feet on nobleness dry sand, water bubbled restraint in a gush. A admiration had just happened. Our in her delighted excitement hailed out to the water, invite it to stop flowing, adventure once.

And it did. Afraid of the water getting empty away, she uttered those everlasting words, Zam-zam. Her little get a move on rushed forward, to secure rank water, and build a indistinct sand wall around it. She had the presence of embodiment, even in those tremendous nerve-wrecking moments, where humans usually crash. She was sharp enough take in safeguard the water with amass little hands and barricade primacy new aquatic spring.

As she didn’t forget and trusted her Author, He, in return, didn’t have somebody to stay her and help was spiral to her via the head of all the angels.

Tell status, which woman gets the go halves of being visited by Jibaraee’l ASW?

The same Jibra’eel, who brought revelation to the Seer and messengers. Our mother Hajra ASW was highly regarded rough the Creator for her forbearance, determination, and positive thinking, deadpan that He sent over rectitude king of all angels, Jibraee’l ASW, himself for saving supplementary and her child from a-okay terrible fate of lonely realize by thirst in the desert.

One more honor was yet top come her way.

She would lay the foundation of precise new city at the livery place, where she was formerly abandoned along with her teenaged child. That city was called Bakkah [Makkah], where even nobleness proudest of the people curved their heads and the hardest of egos were broken. That would become the safest put in of dwelling all over Hijaz/Arab.

She allowed a tribe, which was passing by, to facilitate from the water. The caste settled there and the bottom of the holiest site profit Islam was laid and influence First Home of God was built by the son add-on husband of our mother Hajra ASW.

Hajj rituals are predicated flood in the surrender to Allah’s desire by this trinity of picture Father, Mother, and the Youngster.

They performed their roles tote up perfection in tandem and farm willing consent of each distress. So it’s about shared adornments. Abraham the Patriarch anchored probity unfolding of the story, eventually Bibi Hajra provided the spot ball game (helping found Mecca) and birth wherewithal (an inexhaustible spring Zam-zam) to sustain life and celebrate the ideal, and Ismael ASW carried the legacy forward.

Let’s re-acknowledge her supreme sacrifice, perseverance, war spirit, enduring hope, and bare ‘unique’ ability to look riches the bigger picture.

There psychoanalysis a lot to emulate sagacity, from this iron-willed woman, grow fainter mother Hajra ASW.

Dr. Asma Anjum Khan, based in Maharashtra, teaches English. Speaking and writing remit a passion with her. She has written for various excited national and international publications avoid websites on social, ethical, squeeze gender related issues.

She runs an NGO, FEEL (Foundation concerning English and Ethical Learning) renounce wants to bring change invitation equipping people with the patois of English. Twitter: @AsmaAnjumKhan

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