Adha, a period of "communal enjoyment" for Muslims worldwide, has officially arrived. Here's what we've learned about the ...

Abraham’s near sacrifice of Isaac on Mount Moriah prefigures the ... Esau into the field to catch him some fresh wild game and prepare his favorite meal for him, after which the strengthened ...

The sacrificed son was Ismael. The evidence for that is first, that Allah, the Almighty promised Abraham (PPBUH) and his wife that he could give them a son whose name was Isaac and that, that son ...

Was God’s command for Abraham ... sacrifice his son. Instead, one could argue, he was even harming the future collective, as God promised him progeny, a future ‘universal’ “concealed in ...

God could never have expected Abraham to kill Isaac. Others infer that God never asked Abraham to sacrifice his son literally, because God only considers kosher animals fit for offerings ...

he has chosen for his subject Abraham's supreme trial of faith and the rescue of Isaac from being offered by his father as a sacrifice. The text selected is Genesis, xxil., 7: "Behold the fire and ...

No, he tried to get the wicked off the hook with them. In the sacrifice of Isaac, Abraham called G^d’s bluff. His game of chicken paid off. He trusted enough in G^d to take the risk. And his ...