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idols cannot talk.' He said, 'Do you then worship, instead of Allah,
what cannot help or harm you in any way? Shame on you and what
you worship besides Allah! Will you not use your intellect?' (Surat al-
Anbiya', 58-67)
He said, 'Do you worship something you have carved when Allah
created both you and what you do?' (Surat as-Saffat, 95-96)
The Prophet Ibrahim (as) and Nimrod
What about the one who argued with Ibrahim about his Lord, on the
basis that Allah had given him sovereignty? Ibrahim said, 'My Lord is He
Who gives life and causes to die.' He said, 'I too give life and cause to die.'
Ibrahim said, 'Allah makes the sun come from the East. Make it come
from the West.' And the one who was a disbeliever was dumbfounded.
Allah does not guide wrongdoing people. (Surat al-Baqara, 258)
His People Try to Burn the Prophet Ibrahim (as)
They said, 'Burn him and support your gods if you are resolved to
do something.' (Surat al-Anbiya', 68)
They said, 'Build a pyre for him and fling him into the blaze!' (Surat
as-Saffat, 97)
We said, 'Fire, be coolness and peace for Ibrahim!' They desired to
trap him but We made them the losers. (Surat al-Anbiya', 69-70)
They tried to outwit him but We made them the lowest. (Surat as-
Saffat, 98)
The Prophet Ibrahim (as) and the Prophet Isma'il (as)
We delivered both him and Lut to the land which We had blessed for
all beings. (Surat al-Anbiya', 71)
When he had separated himself from them, and what they wor-
shipped besides Allah, We gave him Ishaq and Ya'qub, making each of
them a Prophet. (Surah Maryam, 49)
He said, 'I am going towards my Lord; He will be my guide. My
Lord, bestow on me a right-acting child!' and We gave him the good
news of a forbearing boy. When he was of an age to work with him,
he said, 'My son, I saw in a dream that I must sacrifice you. What do
you think about this?' He said, 'Do as you are ordered, father. Allah