![]() Abraham, who used to go to the temple with his father when he was a child, greatly despised all that wood and stone. How, then could people believe that such statues could harm or benefit them?Ībraham 's people had a big temple full of idols, in the middle of which was a niche accommodating the biggest gods which was of different kinds, qualities and shapes. He noticed that these idols did not eat, drink or talk and they could not even turn themselves right side up if someone turned them upside down. He could not understand how a sane person could make a statue and then worship what he had made. Since his childhood his heart had been full of hatred for these idols. This made Abraham laugh, he was only seven years old at that time. His father answered: "It is Mardukh, the god of gods, son! These big ears show his deep knowledge." He ordered his son not to play with it again.Ībraham asked: "What is this statue, father? It has big ears, bigger than ours." ![]() One day his father saw him riding the statue of Mardukh and he became furious. Being a child he played with such statues sitting on their backs as people sit on the backs of donkeys and mules. Abraham was astonished and he spontaneously rejected the idea. His father replied that he made statues of gods. One day, he asked him about what it was he made. Allah the Almighty stated: "Indeed We bestowed aforetime on Abraham his (portion of) guidance, and We were well acquainted with him (as to his Belief in the Oneness of Allah, etc.)." Al-Qur'an 21:51ĭuring his early childhood Abraham realized that his father made strange statues. Allah enlightened his heart and mind gave him wisdom from childhood. ![]() He was endowed with spiritual understanding from an early age. In brief, he stood against all kinds of polytheism. Into that family Abraham was born, destined to stand against his own family, against the entire system of his community. Other traditions said that his father was alive and was named Azr. Some traditions claimed that Abraham's father died before his birth and he was raised by an uncle whom Abraham called father. The head of the family was not even an ordinary idolater, but was one who totally rejected Allah and who used to make the idols with his own hands. At that time some people worshipped idols of stone and wood others worshipped the planets, stars, sun and moon still others worshipped their kings and rulers.Ībraham was born into that atmosphere, into a typical family of that ancient time. They also said that Abraham was the middle child and that Haran died in the lifetime of his father in the land where he was born, the land of the Chaldeans ( al-kaldanin), also known as Babylonia. They said that when Tarikh was seventy five years old, he had Abraham, Nahor and Haran. Some of the People of the Book stated that his name was Abraham ibn Tarikh ibn Nahur ibn Sarough ibn Raghuh ibn Phaligh ibn Ahr ibn Shalih ibn Arfghshand ibn Sam ibn Noah.
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