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“And yet indeed she (Sarah) is my sister; she is the daughter of
my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became
my wife.”
Furthermore, the name Ishmael was chosen by Allah Himself
(
Genesis 16:11
: “And the Angel of the Lord said unto her
(Hagar), Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and
shalt call his name
Ishmael
, because the Lord hath heard thy
affliction. “
Ishmael means God Hears.”
And where in the Bible
is it written that Ishmael was an illegitimate son?
m.
Nowhere in the Bible.
M.
Correct! Long before both Ishmael and Isaac were born, Allah
made a covenant with Abraham (
Genesis 1.5:18):
“... saying, unto
thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the
great river, the Euphrates.” Was not the greater part of Arabia
lying between the Nile and the Euphrates, where later all the
descendants of
Ishmael, the Arabs
were settling?
m.
Do
you mean that no land was promised to Isaac and his
descendants?
M.
Muslims never deny that Isaac was also blessed. See
Genesis
17:8
: “And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed
(Isaac) after
thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land Canaan,
for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.”
Do
you see the difference in the words, that Abraham was
mentioned “a stranger” in Canaan but not in the land
between
the Nile and the Euphrates. As a Chaldean he was more an Arab
than a Jew.