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million or so in the world and the Arabs are over two hundred
and fifty million.
m.
Yes, most definitely! You know I never thought of that.
M.
Read further on the first-born’s rights in:
Deuteronomy 21:15-17
: “
If a man has two wives, one beloved,
and another hated, and they have born him children, both the
beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers that was
hated: Then it shall be, when he maketh his sons to inherit that
which he hath, that he may not make the son of the beloved
firstborn before the son of the hated, which is indeed the
firstborn: But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the
firstborn, by giving him a double portion of all that he hath:
for he is the beginning of the strength; the right of the
firstborn is his.”
Islam does not deny God’s blessings on Isaac
and his descendants, but the son of promise is Ishmael from who
later arose Muhammed (pbuh) as the Seal of all Prophets.
m
. But Christians and Jews claim that Ishmael was an
illegitimate son.
M.
That is what they say, but not what the Bible states. How
could a great Prophet like Abraham have an illegal wife and a
son out of wedlock! Read
Genesis 16:3
and see:
“… and (Sarah) gave her (Hagar) to her husband Abram to be
his wife
.” Only if a woman is married can she be a wife. As it
states clearly, “to be his wife” so the marriage was legal in the
real sense. So how could their offspring be illegal then? Is a
marriage between two foreigners, a Chaldean and an Egyptian,
not more legal than a marriage between a man with a daughter
of his father from a different mother? It is stated in
Genesis 20:12
: