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The city of Makkah was uninhabited

when ibrahim alayhi salam left his son isma'il whom he had after many years and his wife Hajar

and obeyed the instruction of Allah

he was asked by Allah to do something why did he obey the instruction of Allah that's what I

want to talk about in this particular segment why would he obey this instruction coming from Allah

of something that did not make sense to him and it's not the only time he did it in his life

at some point Allah Almighty instructed him to sacrifice his own son

there might be a discrepancy among the faiths as to who exactly that son was Islam clearly states

it was isma'il some of the other religions say no it was Ishaq or Isaac

but chronologically it was impossible because there was only Isma'il he was the child he was the

first child so if you look at it from a chronological perspective there was only that particular

child however that's not the debate this evening what it is is the question why would ibrahim

peace be on him want to obey or obey without questioning something that did not make sense to him

at the time imagine someone were to tell you leave your family here and go there is an incident

in the life of Isma'il later on that is mentioned in some of the narrations that's been spoken about

often and sometimes people abuse that today and say well we should do the same what was that

incident one day later on years later when ibrahim alayhi salam visited makkah and he went to his

son's house and he knocked the door and this lady comes out and she opened the door and she was

complaining about everything about her husband who was not there and so this man looks at this

woman and says well tell him that such and such a person describing him came and said you need to

change you need to change and the word used is atabat al-Bab you know the the matter at your door or

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