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Abraham had 8 sons. His
eldest was Ishmael, whom he had with Hajar, who was the progenitor of Prophet
Muhammad, the Prophet of Islam. The next son was Isaac, whom he had with
Sarah, and was the progenitor of Jacob, later renamed The Covenant of God is
promised on 3 separate occasions to Abraham, Isaac, and to Jacob (the father
of the12 tribes of Gen
12:1-3: ‘Now the LORD had said
unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy
father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee: And I will make of thee a
great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt
be a blessing: And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that
curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. As for you, you and your
offspring to come throughout the ages shall keep my covenant. Such shall
be the covenant between Me and you and your offspring to follow which you
shall keep: every male among you shall be circumcised. You shall
circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, and that shall be the sign of the
covenant between Me and you. And throughout the
generations, every male among you shall be circumcised at the age of eight
days. As for the home born slave and the one bought from an outsider
who is not of your offspring, they must be circumcised, home born, and
purchased alike. Thus
shall My covenant be marked in your flesh as an everlasting covenant.
And if any male who is uncircumcised fails to circumcise the flesh of his
foreskin, that person shall be cut off
from his kin; he has broken My covenant... And God said unto Abraham,
As for Sarai thy wife, thou shall not call her name Sarai, but Sarah [shall]
her name [be]. And I will bless her, and give thee a son also of her: yea, I
will bless her, and she shall be [a mother] of nations; kings of people shall
be of her. Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his
heart, Shall [a child] be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and
shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear? And Abraham said unto God, O that
Ishmael might live before thee! And God said, Sarah your wife shall bear you
a son, and you shall name him Isaac; and I will maintain My covenant with him
as an everlasting covenant for his offspring to come. As
for Ishmael, I have heeded you. I hereby bless him. I will make
him fertile and exceedingly numerous. He shall be the father of twelve
chieftains, and I will make of him a great nation. But My covenant I will maintain with Isaac, whom
Sarah shall bear to you at this season next year." Gen
18:18-19, “Seeing that Abraham
shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth
shall be blessed in him? For I know him, that he will command his children and
his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do
justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath
spoken of him.” Gen
21:9-13: ‘And Sarah saw the son
of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had born unto Abraham, mocking. Wherefore she
said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son: for the son of this
bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, [even] with Isaac. And the thing was
very grievous in Abraham's sight because of his son. And God said unto
Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because
of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her
voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called. And also of the son of the
bondwoman will I make a nation, because he [is] thy seed.” Meaning that through the descendants of
Isaac will the nations know the religion of Abraham, that being the religion
of the Hebrews, as Abraham was originally called. And then Allah says in
Genesis 22:18: "All the nations of the earth shall bless themselves by
your descendants, because you have obeyed my command." (That of Abraham
going to sacrifice his son.) Gen
26:2-5: “And the LORD appeared
unto [Isaac], and said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall
tell thee of: Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless
thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I
will perform the oath which I swore unto Abraham thy father; And I will make
thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all
these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be
blessed; Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my
commandments, my statutes, and my laws.” And then Prophet Isaac
blesses his son, Jacob, with this blessing: Gen
27:28-29: “Therefore God give
thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn
and wine: Let people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee: be lord over
thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee: cursed [be] every
one that curseth thee, and blessed [be] he that blesseth thee.” Gen
28:12-15: “And [Jacob] dreamed,
and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven:
and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it. And, behold, the
LORD stood above it, and said, I [am] the LORD God of Abraham thy father, and
the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to
thy seed; And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt
spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the
south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be
blessed. And, behold, I [am] with thee, and will keep thee in all [places]
whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not
leave thee, until I have done [that] which I have spoken to thee of.” Gen
35:9-12: “And God appeared unto
Jacob again, when he came out of Padan Exd
19:3-6, “And Moses went up unto God, and the LORD
called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house
of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel; Ye have seen what I did unto the
Egyptians, and [how] I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself.
Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye
shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth [is]
mine: And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These
[are] the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Exd
34:6-11: “And the LORD passed
by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious (אֵל
רַחוּם
וְחַנּוּן),
longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, Keeping mercy for
thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no
means clear [the guilty]; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the
children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth
[generation]. And Moses made haste, and
bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped. And he said, If now I have
found grace in thy sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray thee, go among us; for
it [is] a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us
for thine inheritance. And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels,
such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation: and all
the people among which thou [art] shall see the work of the LORD: for it [is]
a terrible thing that I will do with thee. Observe thou that which I command
thee this day: behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite,
and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.” Lev
20:22-26, “Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and
all my judgments, and do them: that the land, whither I bring you to dwell
therein, will not vomit you out. And ye shall not walk in the manners of the
nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and
therefore I abhorred them. But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their
land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land that floweth with milk
and honey: I [am] the LORD your God, which have separated you from [other]
people. Ye shall therefore put difference between clean beasts and unclean,
and between unclean fowls and clean: and ye shall not make your souls
abominable by beast, or by fowl, or by any manner of living thing that
creepeth on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean. And ye
shall be holy unto me: for I the LORD [am] holy, and have severed you from
[other] people, that ye should be mine.” Deu
7:5-9: “But thus shall ye deal
with them (idolators); ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their
images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire. For
thou [art] an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen
thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that [are] upon the
face of the earth. The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you,
because ye were more in number than any people; for ye [were] the fewest of
all people: But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath
which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a
mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of
Pharaoh king of Egypt. Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he [is] God, the
faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and
keep his commandments to a thousand generations;” Deu
14:2-3, “For thou [art] an holy people unto the LORD
thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself,
above all the nations that [are] upon the earth. Thou shalt not eat any
abominable thing.” Deu
26:15-19, “Look down from thy holy habitation, from
heaven, and bless thy people As to the issue of Ishmael
being an illegitimate son: First of all Abraham married Hagar, as it says in
the TORAH Genesis 16:3, "After Abram had lived in The issue is not legitimacy
but a promise that God makes to Abraham: In Genesis 17:19-21, "Sarah your
wife shall bear you a son, and you shall name him Isaac; and I will maintain
My covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his offspring to come. As
for Ishmael, I have heeded you. I hereby bless him. I will make him fertile
and exceedingly numerous. He shall be the father of twelve chieftains, and I
will make of him a great nation. But My covenant I will maintain with Isaac,
whom Sarah shall bear to you at this season next year." The covenant was
then reaffirmed with Isaac and Jacob, not with Ishmael. Second, illegitimate
children are those who are born of fornication, adultery, or conceived during
menstruation (all sinful acts!). Children of Concubines/Slave Women are not
illegitimate! If they were then 4 out of the 12 sons (tribes) of Jacob would
be illegitimate and thusly not be able to inherit the The twelve sons of Jacob
are: (Genesis 29:31-30:24; 35:16-26): ·
Sons of Leah: Reuben, Simeon, Qur’an 5:20-21; : “Remember
Moses said to his people: "O my people! Call in remembrance the favor of
Allah unto you, when He produced prophets among you, made you kings, and gave
you what He had not given to any other among the peoples. "O my people!
Enter the holy land which Allah hath assigned unto you, and turn not back
ignominiously, for then will ye be overthrown, to your own ruin." The other point to be
mentioned is that in the Oral "Rabbinic" Tradition, it says that
when the Torah states that when someone dies and was "gathered to his
people", it means that they go straight to |
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