If You Build It, They Will Come On sūrat al-Ḥajj | وأذن في الناس بالحج يأتوك رجالا وعلى كل ضامر يأتيك من كل فج عميق ❝…and proclaim to the people the Ḥajj [pilgrimage]; they will come to you on foot and on every lean camel; they will come from every distant pass.❞ Allah paints for us a bleak scene: `Ibrāhīm is an old man in Makkah. In the company of his son, he erects the kaʿbah walls to an unseen “audience”—a remote terrain, bereft of worshipers. So our Prophet `Ibrāhīm seeks assurance from Allāh, a promise that his efforts do not fall in vain. “O Allāh, how will I convey this to the people when my voice cannot reach them?” So Allāh replies, “Call out, and upon Us is it’s proclamation.” قال إبراهيم: يا رب وكيف أبلغ الناس وصوتي لا ينفذهم؟ فقال الله ﷻ: ناد وعلينا البلاغ. فقام على مقامه: يا أيها الناس إن ربكم قد اتخذ بيتاً فحجوه! `Ibrāhīm ascended by the kaʿbah, “Oh people, indeed your Lord has taken for Himself a house, so journey to it in pilgrimage!” It was said that the mountains of Makkah humbled themselves for `Ibrāhīm’s voice, as it rumbled to the farmost corners of the globe; that it reached unborn souls in every womb and loin; every creation—rock, tree, human—decreed by Allāh to embark on this sacred pilgrimage, until the end of time. فيقال أن الجبال تواضعت حتى بلغ الصوت أرجاء الأرض، وأسمع من في الأرحام والأصلاب، وأجابه كل شيء سمعه ومن كتب الله أنه يحج إلى يوم القيامة. For Allāh promised: ❝…they will come to you on foot, on every lean camel—they will come from every distant pass.❞ And though `Ibrāhīm’s call for Ḥajj began in the barren hills of Makkah, its reverberations pulsed through vast expanses of geography and time …due to promises divine… And now, millions of Muslims throng the kaʿbah each year. They worship in its sacred ambits. Voices chanting in unison, labbayk`Allāhumma labbayk. I share this not to inspire a discussion about Ḥajj, nor the merits of Prophet `Ibrāhīm [عليه السلام]… Peel through the surface layers and you’ll find something more profound: an optimistic note on entrepreneurship. The an `akh launching his first ḥalāl business; a mother organizing her own weekend `Islāmic school; a group of activists on a medical convoy to Syria; a writer starting her own Muslim publication; friends joining for a weekly Qur`ān club—this is for you: `Ibrāhīm made `adhān for Ḥajj in a barren, unpopulated land. And it was Allāh who blessed his efforts. It was Allāh who spread the word.
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