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The father of Prophets and the second of the four Messengers with Will
Allah says [These Messengers have We exalted, some of them above others] al-Baqara 2:253. Every messenger starts where the one preceded him has ended. The end of the rank of sayyidna Noah is the beginning of the rank of sayyidna Ibrahim. The proof is that the last request of sayyidna Noah was [‘My Lord, verily, my son is of my family, and surely, Thy promise is true] Houd 11:45, but Allah hasn't fulfilled it. However, the first request of sayyidna Ibrahim, when Allah said to him [I will make thee Imam (a Leader of men)] al-Baqara 2:124, was [And from among my offspring], and Allah has accepted it and said [My covenant does not embrace the transgressors]. Prophet Ibrahim [PBUH] is the son of Tarekh ibn Nakhur, and his uncle is Aazar who was an idol sculptor. Prophet Ibrahim [PBUH] was consistently searching for the truth about the Creator of the universe. He used to look up to the sky for long time. When he saw a shining star at night, he said "this is my God". When it set, he said "I don't like those that set" and stopped believing in it. When he saw the moon, he said "this is my God", but when it disappeared, he knew it was a creature too.
We need to mention here who an-Namruz is, and why he was called that name. The father of an-Namruz was called "Kan'an ibn Kush ibn Ham", who was a powerful violent king, an was fond of hunting. He married a woman who got pregnant with an-Namruz. When he saw him after delivery, he said to her 'he is a bad-luck boy. Kill him or throw him in the desert to die!'. Everyone was afraid of his power and tyranny, so she threw him in the desert among grazing cows. All cows ran away from him. Whatever came close to him ran away from him. Then, his mother threw him in the river and thought he was drowned, but the river carried him to the land safely, and Allah sent him a female tiger to feed him. When the people of the village saw him, they raised him and called him 'an-Namruz' due to the fact that he was breastfed by a female tiger [in Arabic the word Namruz is driven from the word Namr, which means tiger]. When he grew up, he became a bandit. His evil increased and the number of his followers increased as many as armies. His father, Kan'an, knew about him and prepared an army to fight him. An-Namruz also prepared an army to fight his father whom he did not know. When the two armies met, an-Namruz's army defeated his father's army, then Kan'an asked to fight an-Namruz alone and an-Namruz killed him, took his kingdom and made himself a god for all people.
As for
prophet Ibrahim
[PBUH], his uncle Aazar used to visit him frequently
and try to get closer to him to
prevent him from what he was saying.
So he used to give prophet
Ibrahim
[PBUH]
idols
to sell. Prophet Ibrahim
[PBUH]
used to drag the idols
by the
legs with ropes behind him and say
"Who likes to buy what brings harm and no
benefit?". His uncle said to him [If
thou cease not, I shall surely stone thee.
Now leave me alone for a long while]
Maryam 19:46.
There was a star back then that appeared in the sky
once
To be continued...
Edited by Ahmed Abbas Translated by Nahed Aboel-Hasan
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