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Abraham's Relationship With His Father/Clutre And Seduction Into Islam
Compare the experience of Abraham’s relationship with his family/father and conversion to what later became Judaism to the account of Mohammed’s relationship with his father/Clutre and induction into Islam.
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Abraham was portrayed to be a person who detests the worshiping of idols in both Quran and the Judaism religion, despite the fact that his father was a great worshiper of idols.
Abraham’s father did all he could to influence his son to worship idols who could neither see or hear, but right from his tender age he has been questioning his father on his religion .He questioned his father on the religion. He had this believe in one single God, the almighty as the creator of heaven and earth.
Abraham who unsuccessfully tried to influence his father to stop idol worshiping, one day destroyed all the idols of his father “Terach” and placed the harmer with which he used in destroying the idols, on the biggest of all. His father questioned him on what happened to the images and he lied that the biggest of them smashes the rest into pieces.
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Even though there are similarities in the account of Abraham in the Hebrew bible and the Quran, differences equally exist. Whilst in the Hebrew bible, Abraham was the father of a certain community through whom a covenant was established with God in Islam on the other hand, Abraham was made a more universal ancestor who was a representative of faith for all to

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