On Ismail

Submitted by Devasahayam (United States), May 20, 2008 at 18:56

You write "as you have mentioned that all his brothers were against him, for your information he had only one brother isaac(the ancestor of jesus(pbuh)) both of them were prophets.and both were the leaders of their people."

Keturah (whom Abraham married after seeing Isaac's marriage) had SIX sons by him, of whom one was Midian--an ancestor of Moses' wife Zipporah.

Gen 25:1-5 "Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name was Keturah. And she bare him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah. And Jokshan begat Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim. And the sons of Midian; Ephah, and Epher, and Hanoch, and Abidah, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah."

And I never stated myself to be a Hindu, except by the archaic classification of Delhi Sultanate which included all natives of Sub-continent!

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