Al-Hajj Al-Mabroor

When the devil despaired of Ibrâhîm he went to Ismâ‘îl and said to
him, ‘Your father would slaughter you.’ But Ismâ‘îl replied, ‘If
Allah commanded him to do so, let him do what Allah willed.’
Then, he tried to prevent Ibrâhîm and Ismâ‘îl from going to the
place of slaughtering, known afterwards as Al-Kabsh Mount (The
Ram Mount), for being the mount on which the sacrifice was sent
down.
The devil strived to impede the progress of Ibrâhîm at the Jamrat
Al-‘Aqabah [The closest stone pillar to Mecca, known as Large Jamrat]
in Minâ in order to fulfill the Command of Allah; thereupon
Ibrâhîm seized seven pebbles and stoned the devil. But the devil
and his offspring despaired not and chased Ibrâhîm and Ismâ‘îl,
perchance they could hinder them from honoring the Command of
Allah. So, Ibrâhîm and Ismâ‘îl stoned them to drive them away.
This is the story of stoning, stoning the devil and we are
commanded to stone the devil just as Ibrâhîm and Ismâ‘îl (peace
be upon them) did.
The moral of stoning the devil
After standing at ‘Arafat and having our sins forgiven, Allah, all
praise and glory be to Him, wants to instructs us by the story of
Ibrâhîm and Ismâ‘îl with the devil to guard our penitence. We
have to stone the devil within ourselves in a nonphysical sense,
barring all his gateways to us. Whenever the devil attempts to
approach us with his evil whispers we should not listen to him,
but to stone him by our defiance to yield to his satanic temptations
until he recedes and leaves us dispossessed of all power over us.
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