Recitatio 283

أعوذ بالله من الشيطان الرجيم
بسم الله الرحمان الرحيم
ألسلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته
Dear Quran Lovers,
Let us continue to recite surah 2 Al-Baqoroh (synopsis of Islam). Please refer to the text:
أعوذ بالله من الشيطان الرجيم
(130) وَمَن يَرْغَبُ عَن مِّلَّةِ إِبْرَهِيمَ إِلَّا مَن سَفِهَ نَفْسَهُو ج وَلَقَدِ اُصْطَفَيْنَهُ فِى اُلدُّنْيَا صلى وَإِنَّهُو فِى اُلْأَخِرَةِ لَمِنَ اُلصَّلِحِينَ
وَمَن يَرْغَبُ عَن مِّلَّةِ إِبْرَهِيمَ = "Wa Mai~Yarr-gho-bu 'Am~Mil-la-ti Ibb-ro~hi~ma,  "Wa" = And, "Man" = who, Yarr-gho-bu" = to avoid, " 'An" = from, "Mil-la-ti" = religion, "Ibb-ro~hi~ma" = Abraham,
إِلَّا مَن سَفِهَ نَفْسَهُو = "Il-la~ Mans~Sa-fi-ha Naf-sah".  "Il-la~" = except, "Man" = who, "Sa-fi-ha" = to be stupid, foolish, "Naf-sa" = self, "Hu~" = him.
"Wa Mai~Yarr-gho-bu 'Am~Mil-la-ti Ibb-ro~hi~ma Il-la~ Mans~Sa-fi-ha Naf-sah".  = And (there is none) who avoids/hates the religion of Abraham except fool who deceives himself.
ج = a Waqof Jaiz sign.
وَلَقَدِ اُصْطَفَيْنَهُ فِى اُلدّنْيَا = "Wa La-do-dish-to-fai Na~ Hu Fid-Dun-ya~".  "Wa" = And, "La-qo-di" = indeed, "ish-to-fai" = to choose, "Na~" = We, "Hu" = him, "Fi~" = in, "ad-Dun-ya~" = the world.
"Wa La-qo-dish-to-fai Na~ Hu Fid-Dun-Ya~".  = And indeed, We/Allah have chosen him/Abraham in this world.
صلى = a Waqof Jaiz sign.
وَإِنَّهُو فِى اُلْأَخِرَةِ لَمِنَ اُلصَّلِحِينَ = "Wa In~na Hu~ Fil-A~khi-ro-ti La Mi-nash~SHo~li-hi~~n".  "Wa" = And, "In~na" = truly, "Hu~" = he, "Fi~" = in, " 'al-A~khi-ro-ti" = the Hereafter, "La" = truly, "Mi-na" = from, among, "ash-SHo~li-hi~na" = the Righteous.
"Wa In~na Hu~ Fil-A~khir-ro-ti La Mi-mash-SHo~li-hi~~n".  = And truly, in the Hereafter he/Abraham will be among those who are Righteous.
(When a Jewish Scholar, Abdullah bin Salam who had embraced Islam called upon his two nephews, Salamah and Muhajir to follow him to embrace Islam, said, "We know that Yahweh told us in the Torah that He bring forth a prophet name Ahmad/Muhammad of Prophet Ismail's a.s. descendant. He who believes in him will be guided, and who disbelieves will be damned/cursed." Salamah accepted his call and embraced Islam. But Muhajir refused. Thus, Allah revealed this verse saying that only fool who deceived himself would refuse to embrace Islam. The religion of Abraham was/is Islam, and the religion brought forth by the Prophet Muhammad/Ahmad s.a.w. is also Islam, and both are the sama religion, the Religion of Allah/Yahweh. And Allah had chosen Prophet Abraham a.s. as His Kholil/bosom friend in this world. And he a.s. will be among the Righteous people in the Hereafter).
(131) (to be continued).
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Let us continue to look into the Ten Signs of Doomsday:
  (2) The Dajjal: The Dajjal will go to a nation of people and call them. That nation of people accept him and believe in him. He will say to the sky, "Rain!", and rain will fall. He will say to the earth, "Grow!" and the earth will grow vegetation. In the evening, their cattle return bigger and fatter than they were in the morning. Their udders/"milk" are very big and they are well fed.
Then he will go to another nation of people and call them to believe in him. But these people refuse and reject him. And he leave them. And in the next morning, that country becomes dry. All vegetation become dead, and all their wealth and assets wiped out.
Then the Dajjal goes to a deserted country, and says, "Bring out all of your treasure!". Then all the treasure in that country will follow him like lamb the ewe (the queen bee followed by her bees). Then he will call a very young man to him and cut him into two and the parts of the body will be flung as far as an arrow being shot. Then he will call the young man to go to him and the young man who is cut into two will go to him smiling widely.
In such condition, Allah will send down Jesus son of Mary. He a.s. will descend near a white minaret, in East of Damascus, wearing two coloured clothes, putting his a.s. two hands on the wings of two Angels. When he a.s. bows his head, water drip down, and when he a.s. lifts his head, it will be shining white like pearls, can be seen there. Every unbeliever who breathes his a.s. breath odour, will die. His a.s. breath odour can go far, as far as the range of vision.
He/Jesus a.s. pursues the Dajjal: (to be continued).
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Let us now continue to look into the brief chronicle of Prophet Ismail/Ishmael a.s. son of Prophet Abraham a.s.:
  When Siti Hajar heard a voice and saw an Angel was at her baby's side digging his a.s. wing (in another narration, foot,) until water spouted out (under her baby's two tiny feet). She blocked the water from flowing away, (saying in her tribal words, "ZamZam!/Collect!  Collect!". She pushed the water back into its hole, but it still flowed out and away.
Ibnu 'Abbas r.a. said, "The Prophet s.a.w. said, "May Allah have Clemency on Ismail's mother, if she let the water be Zamzam/ collected by itself", or he s.a.w. said, "if she did not block it, the Zamzam would become a flowing spring."
Then Ibnu 'Abbas continued, "Then she drank the water and suckled her baby. Then the Angel/Archangel Gabriel a.s. said, "Do not worry of being neglected, because in this place is a  House of Allah which will be built by this baby here and his father. And truly, Allah will not ignore the inhabitants here.".
[It is a very clear evidence that Ishmael a.s. and Siti Hajar were not being banished or driven away by anyone including Sara. And Allah did not do thing in a mysterious way but He s.w.t. do thing in a very Wise way. He s.w.t. wanted the Zamzam well to be dug, and wanted His House to be built and the Caaba which was being erected first by the Angels, then by Prophet Adam a.s., then was rebuilt by Prophet Syith son of Prophet Adam a.s. And after the Noah's Flood, the Caaba was destroyed in the flood, to be reerected". These were/are the reasons why Prophet Ishmael son of Hagar and of Abraham was sent to this barren land, not to be outcasted but to do good deeds, that is, to dig the Zamzam well, and to build the House of Allah for Believers to come for Hajj and 'Umroh, and to reerect the Caaba which would be the Qiblat of the Muslimin during the time of Prophet Muhammad s.a.w.].
The House of Allah will be built on a high land, such as on a hillock which is absorbed by flood water/the Zamzam water eroding its right and left sides. And the hillcok was waiting to built with a building there. 
Siti Hajar and her baby son were as usual, until a party of people of the Jurhum tribe was passing through. The group came from the "Kedaa" road. Then they made camp at the lowest land in the outlying area of now Mecca. They saw a bird flying round and round in the sky. They said, "That bird must be searching for water. But we knew that this valley has no water." So they sent one or two person to scout  for water. And they found a well of water. The scouts returned bringing the good news of water! And they all came to the well.
  Ibnu 'Abbas r.a. said, "Ismail's mother was at the well. They went to her and asked: (to be continued).
Until we meet again in the next session, see you all Quran Lovers later.
والسلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته
Abdul Hamid Mohd Yusof.