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name in this context seems an obvious insertion. And it is
not clear just where that land of Moriah was unless it was
the mount of Marwah at Mecca, which supports the Islamic
version.
3. The whole event took place around Mecca. And we
knovv that it was Ishmael and his mother who accompanied
Abraham to Mecca, settled there, and helped him raise the
Ka'bah as a sacred sanctuary, (Qur'an; 2: 124-130; 14:35-40)
4- Perhaps the most important argument in favor of the
Islamic belief is this: the Jewish-Christian version leads to
seriously objectionable conclusions: (a) discrimination be-
tween brothers just because the mother of one was a slave
and that of the other was a free woman, (b) discrimination
between people because of race, creed, or color, (c) claiming
spiritual superiority in the name of one's ancestors, and (d)
denial of legitimacy to a child whose mother is a slave. AU
such inferences and conclusions are contrary to the spirit of
Islam. Anything that may lead to them must be rejected by
the Muslim. The status of one's ancestors, the nobility or
humbleness of the mother, and the social origin or color
shades have no bearings on the spiritual and human quality
of man. at least not in the Sight of God. (16)
16) In addition to these remarks, see A. Yusuf Ali, The Holy Qur'an,
Text, Translation and Commentary (1046), pp. 1204-1206; Ibn al-Qayyim
al-Jawziyah, Zad al-Ma'ad... (Beirut edition, n.d), vol. I, pp. 15-17.