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Originally Posted by Muslim Woman  Salaam/peace; Quote: | Grace Seeker :After reading your links, I fail to see the connection between Ishmael and the Prophet having right over the Holy land
| In short : Jewish & Christians holy books tell them that First born son has right over dad’s property ( will get double portion than his younger bro ).
It does not matter if the husband loves this son’s mom or not. So , will u pl. tell me why many ( if not most ) Jewish & Christians think Prophet Ismail (p) had no right over there ? |
The Christian understanding (ask Rav if this is also the Jewish understanding) is that in this case God promised to Abraham that he would blessing him, not just with a son (Ishmael, his son through Hagar is no less Abraham's son than Isaac), but that he would bless him with a son through Sarah. Ishmael is not Sarah's son and so cannot inherit what was promised to Abraham's son that God was going to give him through Sarah.
Ishmael may be entitled to the right of the first born, but this cannot negate what God promised to Sarah's son.
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Are u saying that Muslims own more land there than the Jewish people ? I always read/ learnt even from the non-Muslim sources that Zionists are grabbing land there from Muslims.
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I read the Zionists are doing this too. What I was saying is not that Zionists are treating Palestinians equitably. (Aren't Palestinians descendants of the Phoenicians, not Arabs anyway?) But I was saying that the descendants of Ishmael (aren't these the Arab people) possess land in Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Yemen, Egypt, Jordan, the Emirates, Kuwait, Lybia, and elsewhere. This is a much greater total landmass than the descendants of Isaac possess in Israel. (And as we value it in today's economy, the wealth of Arab lands is far greater than the wealth of Jewish lands as well.)