Enlightenments from the Call of Abraham pbuh

Enlightenments from the Call of Abraham pbuh

1. Confrontation with sternness and harshness which have no lenience, thus Abraham faces his people and says, ﴾⁵² … “What are these statues to which you are devoted?” ⁵³They said, “We found our fathers to be worshippers of them.” ⁵⁴He said, “You were certainly, you and your fathers, in clear misguidance … ⁵⁷And by Allah, I will surely plan against your idols after you have turned and gone away.”﴿.^[19] Here is where the confrontation transforms, at a marvellous speed, from argument and verbal argumentation to denial by the hand and using the deadly weapon at that time, the axe: ﴾So he made them into fragments, except a large one among them, that they might return to it.﴿.^[20] And they brought Abraham, the only believer among masses of clerics of misguidance and blind followers and slaves of a tyrant, and Abraham did not surrender nor did he take the lenient position, he rather confronted them with harshness and sternness. They asked him, ﴾They said, “Have you done this to our gods, O Abraham?”﴿,^[21] so he answered them with mockery and sarcasm, ﴾He said, “Rather, the largest of them did it, so ask them if they do speak.”﴿.^[22]

Ask them, O blind people, you who tainted your nature upon which Allah created you. Ask them, you who coated yourselves with a coat different from Allah’s. Ask them, you who covered yourselves with sciences filled with argument and satanic sophistry, and claimed that they represent the religion. Ask them, you relapsed ones. So they found no answer for him except, ﴾“You have already known that these do not speak.”﴿.^[23] So this great prophet coarsely addressed this cursed and relapsed group, ﴾⁶⁶He said, “Then do you worship instead of Allah that which does not benefit you at all or harm you? ⁶⁷Fie upon you and to what you worship without Allah. Do you not reason?”﴿^[24] ﴾⁷⁵He said, “Then do you see what you have been worshipping, ⁷⁶you and your ancient fathers? ⁷⁷Indeed, they are enemies to me, except the Lord of the Worlds”﴿.^[25]

And in the end, they found no answer for Abraham pbuh, save the fire that raged in their hearts, ﴾They said, “Burn him and support your gods if you are to act.”﴿^[26] And here, the Hand of Divine Mercy reaches out to veil this believer who was angry for the sake of Allah, ﴾⁶⁹We said, “O fire, be coolness and safety upon Abraham.” ⁷⁰And they intended for him harm, but We made them the greatest losers. ⁷¹ … And We saved him … ⁷³And We made them Imams guiding by Our command … ﴿.^[27]

2. There was no protraction in the call of Abraham pbuh, rather it was a fast confrontation in which events proceeded at an amazing speed.

3. Determining the target and the strike that would be fatal to Falsehood, and colliding with Falsehood harshly and quickly without consideration of the materialistic issues or of the religious and worldly authority held by the people of Falsehood, which enables them to belittle the people. When the servant has certitude that there is no strength except in Allah, he faces millions of people on his own without caring about their number and weapon, for his number and weapon are the One, the Conqueror swt.

Summary:

The most important matter concerning the call of Abraham pbuh was the sternness and the overt and quick confrontation. Surely, this confrontation was preceded by a covert one that resulted in Lot pbuh believing in Abraham’s call.