A father who was not blessed with a child for many years ,reaches to older age. He prays for His future generation. Finally God hears Him and grants Him a child.
(37:100-101)
My Lord, grant me [a child] from among the righteous.So We gave him good tidings of a forbearing boy
اے پروردگار مجھے (اولاد) عطا فرما (جو) سعادت مندوں میں سے (ہو)
تو ہم نے ان کو ایک نرم دل لڑکے کی خوشخبری دی
The child grewup a little. One day father saw a dream and discuss it with His son. THe boy was very young.
(37:102)
And when he reached with him [the age of] exertion, he said, “O my son, indeed I have seen in a dream that I [must] sacrifice you, so see what you think?
جب وہ ان کے ساتھ دوڑنے (کی عمر) کو پہنچا تو ابراہیم نے کہا کہ بیٹا میں خواب میں دیکھتا ہوں کہ (گویا) تم کو ذبح کر رہا ہوں تو تم سوچو کہ تمہارا کیا خیال ہے؟
How the father would be feeling at that time. He got a son after several years of prayers and now He was being asked to sacrifice Him. The son was young. He should have been cried. But What son said?
(37:102)
O my father, do as you are commanded. You will find me, if Allah wills, of the steadfast
انہوں نے کہا کہ ابا جو آپ کو حکم ہوا ہے وہی کیجیئے خدا نے چاہا تو آپ مجھے صابروں میں پایئے گا
Both father and son got agreed to fulfill the command of Allah.
(37:103)
And when they had both submitted and he put him down upon his forehead
جب دونوں نے حکم مان لیا اور باپ نے بیٹے کو ماتھے کے بل لٹا دیا
Just Imagine! How the Father would be feeling at that time, going to sacrifice his son, going to lose Him forever. Do you have any doubt about the love between a father and son? In today’s world, a father gets agreed to steal things for sake of his kids so that his kid doesn’t suffer but the father I am discussing above was a great father and His son was a great Son. Both father and Son was agreed to fulfill what Their creator had asked Them. This was too much. Angels would also be getting surprised who said something like that upon creation of mankind when Allah informed them about His verdict.
(2:30)
when your Lord said to the angels, “Indeed, I will make upon the earth a successive authority.” They said, “Will You place upon it one who causes corruption therein and sheds blood, while we declare Your praise and sanctify You?”
اور (وہ وقت یاد کرنے کے قابل ہے) جب تمہارے پروردگار نے فرشتوں سے فرمایا کہ میں زمین میں (اپنا) نائب بنانے والا ہوں- انہوں نے کہا- کیا تُو اس میں ایسے شخص کو نائب بنانا چاہتا ہے جو خرابیاں کرے اور کشت وخون کرتا پھرے اور ہم تیری تعریف کے ساتھ تسبیح وتقدیس کرتے رہتے ہیں
What The father and son were going to do was unbelievable for everyone. Man is the creature of Allah which can’t be understood. THis is why Allah replied to His angels.
(2:30)
Indeed, I know that which you do not know.
میں وہ باتیں جانتا ہوں جو تم نہیں جانتے
Indeed! Allah knew that His Obedient servants will fulfill His wish. When Allah saw this, He just gave glad tidings to both father and son.
(37:104)
We called to him, “O Abraham, You have fulfilled the vision.”
تو ہم نے ان کو پکارا کہ اے ابراہیم تم نے خواب کو سچا کر دکھایا
Offcourse when there are such creatures of Allah then He has to say something like:
(3:105)
Indeed, We thus reward the doers of good.
ہم نیکوکاروں کو ایسا ہی بدلہ دیا کرتے ہیں
This was the story of great Prohphet Abraham(aS) and His great Son Ismail(AS). Allah blessed their family so much that future generations produced great prophets including our beloved Muhmmad(saw). Offcourse Abraham(AS) deserved this status.
Now we look at ourselves. We also claim to be follower of same Allah. We as a father not willing to give our kids for sake of Allah. I am not talking about sacrifice like Abraham did. Neither Allah asks us such thing. He just asked us to give away our soul,quit our own wish and just obey Him. We rather prefer our kids to get addmissions in good private schools, we don’t care whether we re doing somethnig for his Akhirat or not. Neither we are such sons like Ismail(as) that even if our fathers ask us to recite Quran or go Masjid, we in return say, Parh loun ga na, aap ko kiya hay(I will pray, what’s your problem?) . Neither fathers are pure nor sons. Still we look towards Allah and expect His blessings and when nothing comes out, we start cursing that Allah is not listening us. How foolish we are! Our grand ancestor Abraham(as) and His Son(as) proved angels wrong by giving such sacrifice while on other hand we are just proving angels right. At one side we are disobeying Allah while on other hand we are offending His verdict, the verdict of creation of Human race. We commit double sin, still we expect good from Allah. Ain’t we stupid?