Abraham and tthe sttar worshiipers

Abraham and tthe sttar worshiipers

Then again Prophet Abraham migrated towards Palestine (Baytul Muqaddas), from Egypt after
growing rich and possessing enough livestock and wealth. On his way to Palestine and Jerusalem, Abraham happened to see a group of star worshipers who were praising stars
instead of Almighty God. These people were called the Magi. Abraham, getting aware of their great mistake, decided to show them God’s way and save their lives. To achieve his goal. Abraham pretended to have the same religion as theirs. At night when everything had gone under a veil of darkness, Abraham said: “My God is this star.” But soon afterwards, the star set and disappeared from the views. Abraham said: “I don’t like the God who sets down.”
After a while, the moon appeared from a corner in the horizon. Abraham, while the star worshipers were listening to him, looked at the moon and said: “This is my God. This one is bigger than that star.” By the end of the night the moon set too. Prophet Abraham said: If my God doesn’t guide me, I’ll surely be misled. The next morning Prophet Abraham pointed to the sun rising from the east. He stared at Sun’s glory and brightness and said: “This should be my God. This one is bigger and brighter than all the stars.” And finally, at the time when the sun, like the moon and all the stars set and disappeared in the horizon he pretended to be very much discouraged and showed great displeasure from idolatry, he said: “I disgust these ever-changing things. I shall praise the God who is the creator of the earth and heavens. I only worship Him and I shall reject all these dualists in this way.” Abraham justified the way of God and draws their attention towards the real deity. But those misled men in stead of accepting Abraham’s words, opened up a dispute with him. Prophet Abraham Said: “Are you arguing about the God who has guided us and showed the right path to His creatures.” The star worshipers, releasing that they could not have any influence on Abraham, and had failed to make him charge his idea regarding God, so they started to threaten and warn him against the stars’ anger. For Abraham, these threatening were only ridiculous because he was fully aware that there was
no power in the world more effective than that of God and stars were only powerless things under the command of the creator of the earth and heavens. Then Prophet Abraham continued his journey towards Palestine. When he arrived at the coast of the Dead Sea, he left Prophet Lut at the land of Sodom to summon its people to believe in God and to do good. As for Abraham, he went to the city of al-Khalil in Palestine and lived in that city for many years.