We all spend Eid Ul Azha eating meat and remembering the story of Abraham and how when Allah jee called onto him to sacrifice his most prized possession he did not hesitate one minute to sacrifice his son. I was thinking about that story a lot; specially recently when my own child was in the hospital fighting for her life. I thought about how can a parent be so ready to sacrifice his child for Allah and than I thought maybe Abraham knew something which I did not know, so that got me to thinking what was it that he knew that I do not know?
First of all Abraham loved Allah jee a lot and in return Allah jee loved him a lot. As humans we never hurt the ones we love so how can the creator of the worlds be willing to hurt some one he held dear to himself. Allah jee gave Abraham his son, if he had wanted he could have very well not given him a son at all to begin with so why did he ask him to sacrifice his son once he had been born. I think because he wanted to test Abraham;to see if Abraham knew how much Allah jee loved him because only than would he have been willing to sacrifice his son. Abraham knew that Allah jee would never hurt him, he would never do anything to harm his son because he knew that act would hurt Abraham, so in essence I think he knew all along that nothing was going to happen to his child because Allah loved him.
yeah and i think also because Ibrahin A.S knew that Allah knows all and HIS obedience is an absolute must even if it meant sacrificing his son! and Allah rewarded Ibrahim A.S for this firm belief.
ReplyDeletealso did u know that before getting ready to sacrifies his son, Hazrat Ibrahim sacrificed a few things (i dont remember what they were..some animals i thing) but each time after the sacrifice , he would have the same dream again... so after a couple of times he realized that the sacrifice has to be something that he cherishes the most in the whole wide world and that was his son for him...
we need to learn so much from these historical event...