The king of Babylon, Namrud, heard of Ibrahim’s a.s. safe exit
from the fire and became very angry. He feared
the status of godhead he had proclaimed for himself was noe under threat. Namrud summoned Ibrahim a.s. to the palace
and held a dialogue with him. Namrud was
indeed a great and powerful king. Ibrahim
a.s. was not overawed by Namrud’s status.
He calmly and confidently articulated the basic concepts of Tawheed to
the King of Babylon.
Namrud subsequently ordered two men from prison who were already
sentenced to death to be brought to him.
He ordered one of them to be killed and the other freed. He boasted arrogantly that he controls life
and death. Namrud did not confront
Ibrahim a.s. further nor did he punish him.
He just ordered Ibrahim a.s. to leave his palace. Ibrahim a.s. left and migrated to the land of
Palestine. He settles around the Haran
area.
Ibrahim a.s. then lived in Haran and became part of its
community. He married Sarah. In Haran, the people worshipped idols and the
stars. They practiced their worship at
night when the stars appeared. Ibrahim a.s.
began to argue in jest about the falseness of the stars, the moon, the sun or
any heavenly bodies as an object of worship.
The stars, the moon and the sun have a beginning and an end. None of these created objects are permanent.
When nobody believed him, Ibrahim a.s. decided to migrate to
Egypt.
News of his arrival with the most beautiful woman on earth
(Sarah) reached the ruler of Egypt. He desired
her and sent his soldiers to bring this woman.
He gave instruction to kill the man accompanying her if he was the
husband. Allah s.w.t. informed Ibrahim
a.s. of the impending danger. So when
the soldiers came towards them and asked Ibrahim a.s. who the woman was, he
replied that she was his sister.
The tyrant king then called Sarah and he tried to grab her. She prayed to Allah s.w.t. knowing that the
king was dissolute and wanted to take her.
As the king stretched his hands for her, his hands became stiff. He started to cry, unable to move his
hands. The king pleaded with Sarah to
help him and he promised not to harm her.
Sarah asked Allah s.w.t. to cure the tyrant. He was immediately cured. He then tried to grab her a second time, but
his hands became stiff again. He again
pleaded with Sarah giving the same assurance. Sarah asked Allah s.w.t. again to cure
him. But he attacked her again for the
third time and his hands became stiff yet again. He pleaded again and this time assuring Sarah
that he will set her free. Sarah prayed
to Allah s.w.t. for the third time. Sarah
was freed and the king was generous to her with gifts of gold and jewelry. The tyrant king also gave Sarah a maid
servant named Hajar.
Ibrahim a.s. decided that Egypt was not a safe place for them
and returned to Palestine. When Ibrahim a.s.
settled in Palestine, Prophet Lut a.s. joined him. He ordered Lu a.s. to move and preach to a
group of people in the area of Sodom, also named Al-Mu’tafikah. Ibrahim a.s. stayed in Palestine with wife
Sarah and maidservant Hajar. He earned a
living as a merchant and was very successful accumulating wealth.
STORIES
OF THE PROPHETS IN AL-QURAN
(Lessons that we can
extract, lessons that we can apply)
(Teaser extraction
from the book)
To be continued…
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