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316. GARDENS OF THE RIGHTEOUS supplicate, you will be given, and intercede, your intercession will be accepted. . I shall raise my head and will supplicate. My people, O Lord, my people. O. Lord, my people, O Lord. Allah will say: Muhammad, admit into Paradise through its gate on the right such of thy people who are not subject to accounting and for the rest they will be admitted along with the rest of mankind through the various gates of Paradise. The Holy Prophet added: By. Him in Whose hands is my life the distance between two gates of Paradise will be as wide as between Mecca and Hijr or between Mecca and Busra (Bokhari and Muslin. 1873. Ibn Abbas relates: Abraham brought Ismael and his mother while she was giving him suck and placed them near the site of the house under a big tree above where Zam Zam is in the higher part of the mosque. At that time there was no one in Mecca nor was there any water. He put both of them there and placed with them a bag of dates and a water-skin full of water. He then turned away and Ishmael's mother followed him and said: Abraham, where are you going, leaving us in this valley where there is no friend nor anything? She repeated this several times but Abraham paid no attention to her. Then she asked him: Has Allah commanded you to do this? He answered:. Yes. She said: Then He will not let us perish; and she turned back. Abraham went forward till he arrived at Semiyah where he was not visible to them. He faced towards the side of the House and raising his hands supplicated: Our. Lord, I have settled some of my progeny in a barren valley near Thy Sacred. House, that they may perform Prayer with due observance, our Lord. So make people's hearts incline towards them and provide them with fruits of all kinds that they may be grateful (14. 18). . Ishmael's mother would give suck to Ishmael and would herself drink of the water till the water-skin became empty. She then felt thirsty and her boy felt thirsty and she saw him rolling about. She walked away in one direction being unable to witness his agony. The nearest elevation to her was Safa. She stood on top of it and looked to see whether she could spot anyone but she saw no one and descended from Safa and when she was in the valley she raised a portion of her garment and began to run like a person distracted till she arrived at the top of Marwah and stood there to see if she could spot anyone. . But she did not see anyone. This she did seven times. Ibn Abbas relates that the Holy Prophet said: That is why people run between the two. . When she arrived on Marwah the seventh time she heard voice and she ejaculated: Sshs! (silencing herself) and she lent ear and heard a sound again and said: You have made yourself heard; if you have any succour for us then hear my supplication. Then she saw an angel at the spot where Zam Zam is. . He struck the earth with his heel (or with his wings) till the water appeared. . She dug a sort of cistern for it and began to fill her water-skin from it with her hands. While she was doing it the water continued to increase in quantity equal to that which she took of it. (Ibn Abbas relates that the Holy Prophet said: May Allah have mercy on Ishmael's mother, if she had left the Zam Zam