THE STORY OF PROPHET ABRAHAM BY MUHAMMAD NAGA

Book Review Of THE STORY OF PROPHET ABRAHAM BY MUHAMMAD NAGA

I always wanted to know the difference between the prophets in the Bible and the Quran. The names of prophets were different in each of these holy books but their characters were described similar. When Ma’am asked us to review a book from ebrary I got a chance to select a book of my own choice and I came across this book and so I got curious to know whether Abraham or Ibrahim had the same mentions in both the Holy books. While reading the book I came across many things that were similar while some things that were new too came to my notice like the book couldn’t really answer if Abraham lived with his father or his uncle. It said maybe he lived with his uncle or with his father. The book mentions how Abraham or Ibrahim grew up with people around him worshipping false Gods or as we say idols. His father or his uncle were the one who used to actually make these false Gods and people worshipped them. Abraham however on the other end didn’t really believe in any of these things. He found these things really funny at the beginning but later on started getting angry on how foolish these people behaved. Ibrahim believed that there is only one true God who he mentioned as ‘Allah’ and he had chosen Abraham as a messenger. Abraham tried to tell this to his people many times but no one ever believed him. Later on, one day after getting really annoyed by all the nonsense that the people worshipped Abraham entered the temple of the false deity and broke the statues when the people who worshipped these false deities were busy in some festival. When the people returned to the temple, they knew who it was who had done that to their idols. When they called for Abraham and asked him if he it was him who had done this, he said yes and asked them if their was true why couldn’t he stop Abraham from breaking the statues. The people knew that Abraham made sense but didn’t want to show him their defeat due to their big egos, so they decided to put Abraham in a pit of fire as a punishment. When they did so they seen that Abraham came out of that fire as cool as ice. Allah had saved Abraham and did not let him burn. After seeing this the people were astonished. Some became his followers while some were afraid but believed in him secretly. When king Namrud heard that Abraham had safely come out of the fire, he became angry as he realized that Abraham was not ordinary and called for him. Abraham told him that it is Allah who gives life and death and not you. Abraham had finally left his people as he knew no one believed except for two one of which whose name was Sarah became him wife and the other was Lot who became a prophet. With the help of these two he travelled to different places and told them about Allah and began spreading the truth and word of God. This book helped me to understand that it is not the religion that creates division but it is the people who follow the religion that create division. All the books speak about spreading the truth but people tend to lie and that is why we sometimes fail in spreading love to one another. The books made it easy for me to understand that I must always follow the path of the truth no matter if the entire world stands against me because no matter how long it takes but the truth always come into light. It also cleared my doubt of whether the Quran and Bible are similar or not.

REVIEWER: Pearl Rozario, 40.

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