💠The term Rabb and Rububiyyah of Allah (azza wajal)
Part - 4 👈
❖❐ The People of Ibrahim (alaihe wa sallam) and Namrud :
❐ Next in importance are the people of Ibrahim (alaihe wa sallam), and the significance of their case is that it is commonly thought that their King, Namrud (Nimrod), did not believe in Allah (Subhanahu wa ta'ala) but claimed himself to be God instead.
❐ The fact, however, is that he did believe in Allah, and also believed Him to be the Creator and the Regulator of the affairs of the universe, and his own claim to be a rabb was only in the third, fourth, and fifth senses of the term.
❐ Another common misconception is that these people had no belief in Allah nor in his being the Ilah and the Rabb, although in fact their beliefs on these points were little different from those of the people of Nuh (alaihe wa sallam) and the Thamud.
❐ They did believe in the existence of Allah, and also knew Him as the Rabb, the Creator of the heavens and the earth, and the Supreme Ruler of the universe. Nor, for that matter, did they deny His right to man's worship. Where they were mistaken was in regarding the heavenly bodies as partners with him in rububiyyah in the first and second senses of the term and hence in associating them with Allah to that extent.
❐ As for the third, fourth, and fifth meanings of the term, here it was their kings whom they treated as the rabbs. The Holy Qur'an is so clear on these points that it is surprising how the misconceptions just mentioned originated and came to be so widely accepted. Take for example the story of Ibrahim's search for the truth as told in the Qur'an:
❖ "When night came upon him, he saw a star, and he said: This is my rabb; but when the star set, he said to himself: I do not like those who set. When he saw the shining moon he said: This is my rabb, but when the moon also set, he said: If my Rabb does not guide me, I am afraid I too will become one of those who have bone astray.
❖ Then, when he saw the sun he said: This is my rabb; this is the biggest (of them all); but when the son also set, he cried out: O my people, I disown all those whom you associate with Allah; I turn away from them all and towards Him who created the heavens and the earth, and I shall not be of those who associate others with Him."
[al-Anam 6/77-80]
❐ These ayah clearly show that the people among whom Ibrahim (alaihe wa sallam) had been born did have a conception of a Being Who had created the heavens and the earth and of His being a Rabb as distinct from the heavenly bodies.
❐ And how could it be otherwise, considering the message of Nuh (alaihe wa sallam), and that other Prophets had continued to be raised after him, in particular among related or neighbouring people, the Ad and the Thamud.
❐ One can therefore safely presume that Ibrahim (alaihe wa sallam) owed his belief in Allah as the Creator to his own people. What puzzled him, however, even at the tender age at which the above incident occurred, was the validity of the belief in the heavenly bodies as being partners in divinity and hence worthy of men's ibadaah along with Allah.
❐ It might be mentioned in this connection, that according to architectural excavations in Ur -which was Ibrahim's home- it seems that the people of that area worshiped the moon whom they called "Nannar". In the land next to theirs, it was the sun which was worshiped, and was called "Shammash".
❐ Ibrahim's country had been founded by a King called Uranmuw, a word which was arabicised into Namrud, and this word later came to be the title of the Kings in just the same way as, for example, much later, the successors or Nizam ul-Mulk, who founded the state of Hyderabad India, came to be called Nizams.
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