Quest for the Divine | A Tale of the Imam: Ibrahim [AS] | What the Quran Means

Quest for the Divine | A Tale of the Imam: Ibrahim [AS] | What the Quran Means
Greetings ladies and gentlemen; and welcome to today’s video. As mentioned in the previous video, we are inshAllah going to be taking a look at a prophet who went on a quest for the Divine. But before we get started, welcome everybody to this series of videos, where we attempt to discover and understand Allah through the Quran by contemplating on some of the descriptions that have been given in the Quran regarding the nature of Allah. Please make sure that you have watched the previous 3 videos on this subject. Anyway, without further ado, let us get started with the video. So, as you have already seen from the thumbnail, the prophet that we are going to be talking about in this video is Ibrahim (or Abraham), alayhi salaam; the Imam of mankind, and the khalil of Allah.
In this video, we are going to be taking our lessons from verses 74 to 83 of chapter 6; wherein Allah narrates Ibrahim’s search for the divine by simply contemplating on the creation of Allah. Now, Abraham is a prophet that needs no introduction, as he is our father in faith; and three of the world’s religions trace some of their core beliefs to him as the pioneer role model for monotheism. Therefore, as such, we will not be providing a detailed summary of his life or prophethood; but we will be limiting the scope of the video to the verses previously mentioned. The verses narrate the journey as follows:
(74) Call to mind [O Muhammad], when Abraham said to his father, Azar: “Does thou take idols and statues as gods? Surely, I see thee and thy people in an absolute fallacy.”
In this verse, Allah calls our attention to a period in Abraham’s life, prior to him receiving guidance from the Lord. In the verse, we observe the curiosity of Abraham at the practices of his father, Azar. Here, Abraham asked his father: “Do you take idols as gods?” This, to Abraham, was an obvious fallacy which his father, and in extension his people, were committing. We can learn from this verse, that even when seeking Allah, we go through periods of reflection on our surroundings. Here, Abraham was clearly wondering how could these idols be considered “gods.”