When God ordered Abraham to build the
House, he did not know where to make it, so then God sent Gabriel (PUH)
and he planned the position of the House, then God revealed the basis
from paradise, and the stone that God revealed on Adam was whiter than
snow but turned to be black when disbelievers touched it, so then
Abraham built the House and Ishmael moved the stones for building from
Ði-Tiwâ [seems a place name] (and in some other tales from
the mount of Abi-Qobays) so he made it as high as nine cubits, then
Gabriel (PUH) guided Abraham to the position of the Stone and so he got
it out and placed it in his current position as today, and he made two
doors for it, one to the east and another to the west, and the door to
the west is called Al-Mostajâr. When he built it and finished it
all, Abraham and Ishmael made a pilgrimage, and Gabriel (PUH) came down
for them at the day of Al-Tarwiyah [meaning: day of giving water] and
ordered them to give water and they carried it to `Arafât and
Minâ [a place name] because there were no waters in those spots,
then Abraham said what was mentioned in quran:
And
when Abraham prayed: My Lord! Make this a region
of security and bestow upon its people fruits, such of them as believe
in Allah and the Last Day, He answered: As for him who disbelieveth, I
shall leave him in contentment for a while, then I shall compel him to
the doom of Fire - a hapless journey's end!(Al-Baqarah:126).
In some tidings, the stone that have to be thrown in pilgrimage
season are counted as seven for that when Gabriel (PUH) showed Abraham
how to do the pilgrimage, the Satan appeared or him and then Gabriel
(PUH) commanded Abraham to throw at him, and so he did with seven
stones (bebbles), and so he (Satan) went under the ground and so
Abraham stopped. Then the Damned appeared again and Abraham threw at
him another seven stones and he went back again under the ground. Then
the Damned appeared for the third time and Abraham threw at him seven
stones and the Damned went again under the ground. Other tidings say
that after the commandments of God for Abraham and Ishmael about
building the Holy House, and after they had finished it, God ordered
him (Abraham) to get on one corner and call on people: O come to
pilgrimage. If he had said: O people come to pilgrimage, then only
human beings that were created at that time would answer his calls, but
he said "O come to pilgrimage" and so people in the core of men
[meaning: people that are yet not born] answered the call, and whoever
answered ten times he made pilgrimages for ten times and whoever
answered five times then he made pilgrimage for five times and so on.
Scholars differ about the exact meaning of the previous tale and about
the difference in calling in singular form and plural form, and that
the calling in a singular form is more general and includes the already
existant with the ones that will be existant, but plural form would
include only the existant beings only. [Some lines come here with a
heavy philosophical concepts that I couldn't follow or translate, but
it emphasizes that Abraham called not only existant people at that time
but also beings that will be founded later on]. In other tidings, when
God ordered Abraham (PUH) to call on the people for pilgrimage, he
stood upon the place and he became as high as Abi-Qubays [mount#s name]
and so then he called on for pilgrimage and for that people in the
cores of men and womns of women heard him until the doomsday arrival.
Another tale says that at the day of `Arafah and after the sunset,
Gabriel went out with Abraham and said to him: O Abraham coness your
wrongdoings and know your rituals, and for this it was called
`Arafât, because of Gbariel's saying "confess" and "know"
[Arabic: confess: E`tarif (imp.), know: E`raf (imp.)], and there stayed
Gabriel until the sunset (again) and then he went to Al-Mozdalifah
[another spot's name].
Some historians said that when Abraham left Ishmael and his mother
Hagar in the valley where Mecca lies now, Abraham used to visit them
from time to time and at the end God commanded them to build the House,
and so they did and built the House and when they were finished God
commanded Abraham to tell people that he built a House for worshipping
God and they have to visit it to do their rituals, and Abraham with
Ishmael asked God then to show them how to do the rituals and so He
sent Gabriel (PUH) and he taught them what to do. They say that after
building the Holy House in Mecca, no buildings were built except before
Islam by one hundred and fifty years in the second century before Islam
and then the action of building took place and that was at the time of
Qosay ben Kilâb, the fourth grandfather for the prophet (PUH),
and the first thing he built was Dâr Al-Nadwâ for Quraysh
[Quraysh is the main tribe that lived in Mecca and for which the
prophet (PUH) belongs, the buildings name suggests that it was like a
parliament place], and then they started building houses around the
Holy House and before it was an empty space with no plants or
buildings, and they said that nothing is planted there except for the
desert plants that have no fruit.
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