I am preaching this coming Sunday on that father/son relationship of Abraham and Isaac at my church ... test but it was compelled by a weak man who had to prove he was worthy of being God ...

Abraham also suffered later because his son Prophet Ishmael, was severely persecuted by the very tribe who had adopted him; the Jurhum, who according to al-Tabarsi tore off the skin of his face ...

Of course, had there been fire, there would be no Isaac. In both stories, the father is deprived of his two sons. But Aaron has two spare sons who can carry out the priesthood. Abraham may not ...

when Abraham had been informed that Sarah would give birth to Isaac, and that Isaac would be his spiritual heir, Abraham immediately prayed to God on his first son’s behalf: “Lu Yishmael ...