We have transferred it to later generation" [HOLY QUR'AN...

We have transferred it to later generation" [HOLY QUR'AN, 37:105-408] The substitute -sacrifice destined to take place instead of the one offered by Abraham, has been called by god as on Open Test and a Great Sacrifice from which one naturally infers that the one to be sacrificed would be greater than ISMAEL in his position with the Lord, and such a great sacrifice could naturally be offered by the one who would be superior to Abraham in his submission to God's Will.

What Abraham was demanded to enact was only a test: 1- To make it known to mankind the degree of Abraham's love of God, and his submission to God's Will. 2- To make Abraham himself know that he was still lacking in resistance to witness the blood of his son when it had to flow in the fulfillment of the Will of the Lord. 3- To declare the ideal devotion of Abraham and his implicit submission of God, even to sacrifice his own son, when commanded by the Lord to do it.

4- To make id known to man that when it is demanded in obedience to God's command, man should sacrifice even his won son. 5- To make the children of Adam (Man) know that in obedience to their parents, they must surrender themselves as ISMAEL did. 6- To make it known to mankind that such an event is under the Divine Will and it is a Great Test which shall be enacted openly and it shall come to pass in the time to come, in the seed of Abraham.

Besides, the test, if it had to profit mankind, must be an open test, with its causes and events openly known, to earn the appreciation of its consequent effects.

Abraham enacted the slaughter in obedience to God's command, but since the nature of the command was shrouded in a dream and every one could not know that the dream of an apostle of God is a revelation of God's Will, and with the ignorance of this mystic factor, people, instead of appreciating the unique submission of Abraham to the divine will of the Lord, would have condemned Abraham for having fanatically slaughtered his son, beguiled by his own fanciful interpretation of his dream.

Thus, if Abraham had in those circumstances been allowed to slaughter ISMAEL, the value of the Great Sacrifice would have practically been wasted and its great purpose would not have been fully served.