In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
Who is better guided in his religion than one
who submits totally to God,
leads a righteous life, according to the creed of Abraham: monotheism?
God has chosen Abraham as a beloved friend. [4:125]
Who would forsake the religion of Abraham, except
one who
fools his own soul? We have chosen him in this world,
and in the Hereafter he will be with the righteous [2:130]
You shall strive for the cause of GOD as you should
strive for His cause.
He has chosen you and has placed no hardship on you
in practicing your religion -
the religion of your father Abraham.
He is the one who named you "Submitters" originally. [22:78]
The Quran repeatedly informs us that Submission is the religion of Abraham. Abraham received a practical "scripture," namely, all the duties and practices of Submission - the Contact Prayers (Salat), the obligatory charity (Zakat), the fasting in the month of Ramadan, and the Hajj pilgrimage. Prophet Muhammad was a follower of Abraham's religion (16:123), and delivered the Final Testament, the Quran. One of the prevalent myths is that Muhammad was the founder of Islam or Submission.
Abraham's exemplary submission to God is demonstrated by his famous willingness to sacrifice his only son, Ismail, when he thought that that was God's command. As it turns out, such a command was in fact from Satan. God never ordered Abraham to sacrifice his son. God is the Most Merciful. God never violates His own law (7:28). Any person who believes that the Most Merciful ordered Abraham to kill his son cannot possibly make it to God's Heaven. Such evil thought about God is grossly blasphemous. Nowhere in the Quran do we see that God ordered Abraham to kill his son. On the contrary, God intervened to save Abraham and Ismail from Satan's plot (37:107), and He told Abraham: "You believed the dream" (37:105). Undoubtedly, it was a dream inspired by Satan. God's irrevocable law is: "God never advocates sin" (7:28).
All religious duties of Submission were given to prophet Abraham; and were transferred to us generation to generation. When the Quran was revealed, all religious duties were already established through Abraham. The Quran corrects religious practices corrupted at the time of prophet Muhammad as well as the present time.
We made them imams who guided in accordance with
our commandments, and we taught them how to work righteousness,
and how to observe the Contact Prayers (Salat)
and the obligatory charity (Zakat). To us, they were devoted worshipers.
[21:73]
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