..:: THE OBEDIENT FATHER AND THE OBEDIENT SON ::..

"It is not their meat nor their blood, that reaches Allaah: it is your piety that reaches Him.." - (The Qur'an, Chapter 22: Verse 37)

"And, when he (his son) was old enough to walk with him, he said: 'O my son! I have seen in a dream that I am slaughtering you (offering you in sacrifice to Allâh). So look what you think!' He said: 'O my father! Do that which you are commanded, In shâ' Allâh (if Allâh wills), you shall find me of As-Sâbirûn (the patient).'

Then, when they had both submitted themselves (to the Will of Allâh), and he had laid him prostrate on his forehead (or on the side of his forehead for slaughtering);

We called out to him: "O Ibrâhîm (Abraham)!

You have fulfilled the dream!" Verily, thus do We reward the Muhsinûn (good-doers. See 2:112).

Verily, that indeed was the manifest trial.

And We ransomed him with a great sacrifice (i.e. a ram);

And We left for him (a goodly remembrance) among the later generations.

Salâm (peace) be upon Ibrâhîm (Abraham)!

Thus indeed do We reward the Muhsinûn (good-doers)."


[Al Quran; Chp 37 Verses 102 to 110]