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Jewry, they attempt to prove that the intended sacrifice was
hadrat Is-haq. However, Qur’ân al-kerîm informs that the existing
copies of Torah are defiled, interpolated copies. That the
intended sacrifice was Ismâ’îl ‘alaihis-salâm’ is indicated through
Qur’ân al-kerîm. The hundredth and later âyats of Sâffât sûra
purport, “Yâ Rabbî (o my Allah)! Give (me) a son from among
the good. So We gave him the good news of a halîm [very goodtempered]
son. When the child reached the age to walk with
Ibrâhim ‘alaihis-salâm’, Ibrâhîm said unto him: ‘O my dear son! I
have been having dreams in which I am jugulating you. Lo, what
would you say about it?’ (The son said), ‘O my dear father, do
whatsoever you have been ordered to do! Inshâ-allah (If Allâhu
ta’âlâ wills it be so), you will find me among the patient.’ Both of
them being submissive to the decree of Allâhu ta’âlâ, Ibrâhîm had
his son lie on his forehead on the ground. [The knife would not cut
the child’s throat]. We said, ‘O Ibrâhîm! You have proved true to
the dream. So we reward those who behave well.’ This event was
an open test. We gave him a big ram [to be jugulated] instead of
his son.”
“Thereafter we gave him the good news of Is-haq (Isaac) from
among the good as a Prophet. We bestowed abundance on him
and on Is-haq. Among their descendants there are good ones as
well as those who are cruel to their nafs.”
These âyat-i-kerîmas show clearly that the would-be sacrifice
was Ismâ’îl ‘alaihis-salâm’. For, when Ibrâhîm ‘alaihis-salâm’ said,
“I shall go wherever my Rabb (Allah) commands me to go,” and
migrated, he was first blessed with Ismâ’îl ‘alaihis-salâm’. Is-haq
‘alaihis-salâm’ was bestowed on him afterwards. We do not
understand why they are trying to conceal this fact.
As it is stated in the book Mir’ât-i-Mekka: In the time of ’Umar
bin Abdul’azîz, a Jewish rabbi became a Muslim. The Khalîfa,
’Umar bin Abd-ul’azîz asked him, “Who was the child to be
sacrificed, Ismâ’îl or Is-hâq?” The new Muslim’s answer was: “O
Khalîfa! Jews know that the intended sacrifice was hadrat Ismâ’îl.
Yet because Ismâ’îl ‘alaihis-salâm’ was Muhammad’s ‘alaihissalâm’
ancestor they say that their own ancestor, Is-hâq ‘alaihissalâm’,
was the sacrifice.” And now these people, following the
course guided by Jews and Christians, deny the fact that Ismâ’îl
‘alaihis-salâm’ was the intended sacrifice.
To know which one of his sons Ibrâhîm ‘alaihis-salâm’
intended to sacrifice is not one of Islam’s principles of belief. Yet
these people, in order to attack Sunnite scholars, put forward this
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