Read the Eid-ul-Adha Sermon below:
The Story of Abraham/Abram/Ibrahim/ Brahma
Ibrahim, the Patriarch
and Friend of Allah, saw in a vision that he was offering his only son Isma’il
as a sacrifice to the Lord. He said to the boy: “O son of mine, I have seen
in a dream that I was slaughtering you; So, tell me what you think of it.’
The boy replied: “O Father, do as you have been commanded; you will find
me, if Allah please, of those who are steadfast.”
Ibrahim made the
necessary preparations. When all was ready and he was about to proceed to the fulfilment
of what he thought he had been commanded to do, he received the revelation that
he had indeed fulfilled his dream. (As-Swaffat 37: 104-108).
The true meaning of the dream was not that he should sacrifice his son in the manner in which he had seen himself doing in the dream, but that both he and his son should be ready to make a great sacrifice to win the pleasure of God. This great sacrifice was that the boy and his mother should be settled in a distant, barren valley, so that the boy should be made an instrument for the purpose of establishing the true worship of God in and around the Sacred House. (Ibrahim 14: 38).