{وَإِذْ قَالَ إِبْرَاهِيمُ رَبِّ اجْعَلْ هَذَا بَلَدًا آَمِنًا وَارْزُقْ أَهْلَهُ مِنَ الثَّمَرَاتِ مَنْ آَمَنَ مِنْهُمْ بِاللَّهِ وَالْيَوْمِ الْآَخِرِ قَالَ وَمَنْ كَفَرَ فَأُمَتِّعُهُ قَلِيلًا ثُمَّ أَضْطَرُّهُ إِلَى عَذَابِ النَّارِ وَبِئْسَ الْمَصِيرُ
And [mention] when Abraham said, "My Lord, make this a secure city and provide its people from the fruits - whoever of them believes in Allah and the Last Day." [Allah] said, "And whoever disbelieves - I will grant him enjoyment for a little; then I will force him to the punishment of the Fire, and wretched is the destination." [ʾal-Baqarah: 126]
This verse contains the supplication of ʾIbrāhīm (عليه السلام) for the prosperity of Makkah. It troubled him that the area was utterly barren and unable to sustain his future descendants. The commentators of the Qurʾān describe how Allāh created the area where the town of ʾaṭ-Ṭāʾif would be founded, as a response to this supplication. For example, ʾal-ʾAlūsī (رحمه الله) mentions:
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Region around ʾaṭ-Ṭāʾif[/caption]“And provide its people from the fruits” i.e. its various types by creating towns near to it through which this can be attained, or by importing to it from various directions. Both interpretations have in fact been achieved. For there gathers in Makkah fruits of spring, summer and autumn at a single time. It is narrated that Allāh Most Pure commanded Jibrīl when ʾIbrāḥīm supplicated. He plucked out a region of Palestine, although some say it is Jordan. He then circled the Kaʿbah with it seven times before placing it so that it could be a means of sustaining the Sacred Precincts. That land is known today as ʾaṭ-Ṭāʾif, and it is named for having made that ṭawāf [circling]. In regards the authenticity of this , it is nothing farfetched for the All-Powerful King, Most Majestic! If you refuse to accept that this was a literal event, then the door of interpretation is wide open for you…. “from” [the fruits] indicates only some kind of fruits.
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Makkah[/caption]Scholars have asked why Allāh did not simply create Makkah as a fertile, lush land. Why was the supplication so indirectly answered through the extraction of a far-off land and its placement a distance away from Makkah?
The explanation is offered that Allāh does not wish for any distraction when one worships at His House, to the extent that not even the climate or vegetation of Makkah should provide pleasant relief or distraction. A distant town was created to sustain Makkah. Travellers used to mention that when approaching ʾaṭ-Ṭāʾif, the climate suddenly changed as if one was entering a different land. For indeed that is exactly what happened. The town retained the fertile blessings of its Syrian origin. One is actually leaving Arabia and crossing into Syria, the land whose blessing Allāh describes thus:
سُبْحَانَ الَّذِي أَسْرَىٰ بِعَبْدِهِ لَيْلًا مِّنَ الْمَسْجِدِ الْحَرَامِ إِلَى الْمَسْجِدِ الْأَقْصَى الَّذِي بَارَكْنَا حَوْلَهُ لِنُرِيَهُ مِنْ آيَاتِنَا ۚ إِنَّهُ هُوَ السَّمِيعُ الْبَصِيرُ
Pure is He who took His Slave by night from ʾal-Masjid ʾal-Ḥarām to al-Masjid al-ʾAqṣā, whose surroundings We have blessed, to show him of Our signs. Indeed, He is the Hearing, the Seeing. [ʾal-ʾIsrā: 1]
ʾal-ʾAlūsī (رحمه الله) further highlights this insistence on lack of distraction when he states that ʾIbrāhim (عليه السلام) asked for some kinds of fruits to come to Makkah, not all kinds.
Some mystics go further by pointing out that it is beneficial that Allāh’s Messenger (صلى الله عليه و سلم) rests in a different city. One can focus on one’s love for him whilst visiting ʾal-Madīnah, and focus on Allāh’s House when visiting Makkah.
Whatever the case, let alone the Muslims, even pagans understood that Makkah should by definition be a city of sanctity and simplicity dedicated to worship. The ethos implied in the creation of ʾaṭ-Ṭāʾif incident was maintained for millennia. Every people who ruled Makkah, maintained its sanctity according to their understanding, to the extent that in the beginning, rectangular houses were banned as an afront to the Kaʿbah and houses had to be circular. Every people understood that Makkah should have an ambience of simplicity.
This respect lasted for thousands of years but would not last forever. A people bereft of intellect and religious love seized the sacred cities and violated it beyond recognition, beyond what any pagan would have thought of inflicting on her.
The Satanic Saʿūdī Regime
I do not know what is worse – to be amongst those who grieve when they see Makkah transformed for the first time in history to resemble the monstrosity of some American city, or to be amongst those who are so dead inside that they could not care in the least that the city of ʾIbrāhīm (عليه السلام), the city of Muḥammad (صلى الله عليه و سلم), the city of the sacred Companions (رضي الله عنهم) has been systematically bulldozed away by the servants of the Anti-Christ. A thousand examples can be cited in regards the blinkers Muslims happily wear in this regard. We proudly tout our intellectual credentials and advise non-Muslims that the first revelation of the Qurʾān stated, “Read!” Does your brilliant intellect deny you any feelings of ghayrah, religious emotion, at the fact that the house where Muḥammad (صلى الله عليه و سلم) went to straight to after that revelation is today a toilet? Is your heart so dead? Certainly demolition and transformation happened before in Makkah, of necessity. Yet none but a most vile liar can deny the intentional and systematic erasure of Islām’s history at the hands of this Satanic regime. The toilet could not be built anywhere else? Instead of visiting the home of our Mother, Khadījah (رضي الله عنها), praying for her in partial payment of the immense debt we owe her, and perhaps shedding a tear in memory of how Allāh’s Messenger (صلى الله عليه و سلم) loved her, we defecate and urinate over her home. Would the even the Christians and Jews show such disrespect to their sacred personalities?
We perform a ritualised version of the pilgrimage, far from the spirit of the Farewell Pilgrimage or the event during which previous generations used to learn, teach and discuss the affairs of the Muslims. How nauseating that even scholars and activists return with nothing to discuss but which hotel did they stay at, how the flight was, their amazing shopping experiences etc. Nobody thinks that there is something wrong with this scene, different to the Makkah and the pilgrimage of every other generation before us? Allāh have mercy! The Satanic Saʿūdī regime has deliberately engineered this sanitised version of the pilgrimage and delight at our ignorance and downright apathy.
Nobody ponders over the amazing incident and system that Allāh created to keep Makkah distraction free; a system which was maintained throughout history. One should cringe at the very least, and weep if you have a heart, and wonder why is it that we are the first generations ever to witness the breakdown of that system. Why?
A friend proudly showed me a picture of the Kaʾbah taken from the monstrous “Makkah Royal Clock Tower”. My poor sincere but not understanding friend. I had to explain how wrong it is. The Kaʾbah is supposed to be the focus of Makkah. Now it is but a speck which Saʿūdī monstrosities dwarf from the sight and hearts of Muslims. His picture encapsulated the least evil of the Satanic Saʿūdī regime – the destruction of the ancient sacred atmosphere of Makkah and its replacement with some alien demonic civilisation’s ideals; and yet I believe that this is amongst the lesser crimes of these Satanists.
سليمان الكندي
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Addendum: Explantion on terms Syria, Palestine & Jordan
