DIL R. BANU
Synopsis: The history of the Semitic Religion tells us people belonging to world’s three great monotheistic religion Judaism, Christianity and Islam have inherited their faith from Abraham. Their holy scriptures-both Bible and Quran also mentioned Abraham as the father of many nations. He was also called the friend of God because he overcame many difficult trials or tests that he faced to prove his faith, love and submission to God. Most astonishing and gruesome of those trials as it is believed by the Jews, the Christians and the Muslims equally, is to sacrifice his only son of his old age by the command of God. They also believe equally God commanded Abraham to stop when he was ready with a knife to kill his tied-up son inside a thick bush. They also believe equally he was provided with a ram and commanded to sacrifice it in place of his son. But one thing they have differed completely is about the intended son of his sacrifice. Both the Jews and the Christians claim the intended son of Abraham’s sacrifice is Isaac-his younger son through his wife Sarah while the Muslims claim he is Ishmael-his firstborn through his second wife Hagar-Sarah’s Egyptian handmaid. This book describes in detail how or why this difference or discrepancy in their claim occurred based on the statements of the Bible, the Quran and the narration of the Judeo-Christian and Islamic Tradition.Autobiography: It is the third book of Dil R. Banu. Though she is a Muslim by birth and practice and thinks herself lucky, privileged, and grateful to have Muhammad (SA) as her Prophet and Islam as her religion, she has a great passion for Comparative Religion. She has written this book for the people of all faiths, especially for the Jews and the Christians who have lots of misconceptions about Abraham and about the intended son of his sacrifice. She truly hopes and believes that an inquisitive and open-minded reader will find many missing points or links in her book to reflect and realize why this four-thousand-years old unresolved issue about the intended son of Abraham’s sacrifice should be taken seriously and be resolved once for all.
