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“When he told his father Âzer.” If he were his own father, the
word ‘his father’ would be superfluous.
All of the scholars of the Taurât (Torah) followed the religion
of Mûsâ (’alaihi’s-salâm) for a 1800 year period and along with
them the Apostles of Jesus (’alaihi’s-salâm) and the priests who
followed them said that Âzar was not the real father but that he
was the uncle of Ibrâhîm (’alaihi’s-salâm). As it is inferred from
the undefiled old namescripts of the Torah and the Bible, the
name of the father of Ibrâhîm (’alaihi’s-salâm) was Târuh. The
word Târuh is not the Hebrew synonym of Âzar as some
ignorant people write. It means that they both are not names for
the same person. There are many verses in the Qur’ân-al karîm
in accord with those in the Torah and the Bible. In the thirtieth
page of the Turkish version of his book, Bayân-ul-haq,
Rahmatullah Efendi (rahmat-Allahî ’alaih), one of the Islâmic
scholars of India, says, “Naskh; i.e., anything to be made invalid
by Allahu ta’âlâ, involves only the commandments and the
prohibitions. In the commentary Ma’âlim-ut-tanzîl al-Imâm al-
Baghawî says that Naskh did not occur in the qisas (narrations)
and akhbâr (information) [nor scientific and experimental
knowledge] but only in the commandments and prohibitions.
Naskh does not mean to change them but to inform as to the
ending of their period of validity. The Qur’ân-i karîm did not
invalidate the whole Torah and Bible but a part of them.” [There
is some information about Naskh in this fascicle in a letter by
Imâm-i Rabbanî, Vol. 3-22]. Therefore, the ta’wîl (explaining
away) of the above-mentioned âyat-i karîma becomes
necessary.
Allahu ta’âlâ declares in the hundred and thirty-third âyat of
the Sûrat-ul-Baqara that Hadrat Ya’qûb’s (Jacob’s) sons said to
him, “And the creator of your fathers Ibrâhîm, Ismâ’il and
Ishaq....” This may come to mean that hadrat Ismâ’il is the
father of Hadrat Ya’qûb. However, Hadrat Ya’qûb is the son of
Hadrat Ishaq ‘alaihis-salâm’, who is the son of Hadrat Ibrâhîm
‘alaihis-salâm’. And Hadrat Ishaq ‘alaihis-salâm’ is Hadrat
Ismâ’il’s ‘alaihis-salâm’ brother. Then, Hadrat Ismâ’il ‘alaihissalâm’
is not Hadrat Ya’kûb’s ‘alaihis-salâm’ father but his
uncle. This means to say that in the Qur’ân al-kerîm ‘uncle’
means ‘father.’ It is written in the interpretation of this âyat in
many books of interpretation that the word ‘father’ is used for
uncle in various Arabic lexicons. It is written in many books that
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