Puncak bukit (Summit of the hill of) Safa

Bersambung dari Makam (Tomb of) Saidina Uthman.

Continued from Makam (Tomb of) Saidina Uthman.

Pada malamnya saya sampai ke Mekah lalu melakukan ibadah umrah. Di sini saya mahu menunjukkan tempat bernama Safa di mana ibadah sa'ei yang merupakan sebahagian rukun umrah dimulakan.

At night I arrived in Mecca and did the umrah (a pilgrimage act of worship). Here I want to show the place called Safa where the act of sa'ei which is a compulsory component of the umrah is started.

Safa sebenarnya merujuk kepada puncak Bukit Safa di mana isteri kepada Nabi Ibrahim, Siti Hajar pernah berdiri untuk mencari air buat anaknya, Nabi Ismail yang kehausan.

Safa actually refers to the summit of the hill of Safa where the wife to Prophet Ibrahim (Abraham), Siti Hajar (Hagar) once stood to look for water for his son, the Prophet Ismail (Ishmael) who was thirsty.

Dari sini beliau terlihat puncak sebuah lagi bukit yang bernama Marwah lalu meninjau antara kedua bukit itu. Dari perbuatan inilah timbul ibadah sa'ei yang memerlukan kita berjalan kaki berulang-alik 7 kali antara dua puncak bukit.

From here she saw the summit of another hill called the Marwah and thus surveyed between the two hills. It was from this behaviour that the act of sa'ei surfaced requiring us to walk to and fro 7 times between the summits of the hills.