The Water of Zamzam

When she got on top of al-Marwah — and that's the end of the seventh shawṭ, the seventh climbing — she heard a voice. She said: ṣah, quiet. Who is she speaking to? She's speaking to herself, out of confusion. She's telling herself: be quiet. And then she's trying to listen. She heard a voice again. She said: laqad asmaʿta, in kāna ladayka ghawāth — if you have any help, I'm able to hear you. Where are you?

And then she looked around, to see, in the spot where Ismāʿīl (peace be upon him) was lying down — the child, the two-year-old child, the helpless child, the child that is crying, helpless — she saw an angel: the leader of the angels, Jibrīl (peace be upon him), descended specially to that spot where Ismāʿīl (peace be upon him) was lying down. And the angel started picking up the dirt, with his wing or with his foot, until water started flowing from the ground. The rizq of Allah — the rizq of Allah that came for a helpless child.

So she came down, Sayyidatunā Hājar. This water of Zamzam came out through the divine will of Allah (swt), a commandment to the angel Jibrīl. When the water was coming out with the will of Allah (swt), Sayyidatunā Hājar intervened by making a pool around the water. Because this water was coming out in a desert, she thought that this water was going to flow on the sand, and go into the earth, and she's not going to see it. She intervened, and she started saying: zam, zam, zam, zam. And she's collecting dirt around it to make a pool.

The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) says: if Hājar had left it alone, it would have been a flowing river. She intervened in it. If she had left it alone — left it alone — it would have been a flowing river. But she intervened, and it became the well of Zamzam.