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Now we know that every nation had profits.

Allah says,

the Arabs as well had a profit.

And their profit was, of course, the profit Ibrahim Ali Hissalam and his son Ishma'il.

And that is why numerous times in the Qur'an, Allah mentions,

this is the religion of your forefather Ibrahim.

And the profit Ibrahim Ali Hissalam had sanctioned many practices which remained for thousands

of years until the coming of the Prophet ﷺ.

So of the practices that Ibrahim Ali Hissalam began was to consider Makkah sacred.

What does it mean sacred? We call Makkah Haram from the same word as Haram.

It's the same word Haram. Haram and Haram. Haram is called Haram because many things that are

halal outside the Haram or Haram inside the Haram. This is what we call it the Haram.

It's a sanctity. So for example, you're not allowed to hunt game in the Haram.

You see a wild deer, you cannot go hunt it. This is a Haram. You're not allowed to pull a tree.

You cannot pull a leaf from the Haram. And everything that is natural, it's Allah's creation.

You cannot touch it. Allah says in the Qur'an,

women dachhala hukana amina. Whoever enters the Haram is safe.

And this is a ruling we still apply in our sharia that if a criminal,

if any evil person does a crime and he runs to the Haram seeking refuge,

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