Abraham is a definite historic personality and unique in history as with him began the continuity of God's revelatory process. All the last three extant revealed religions i.e. Judaism, Christianity and Islam - claim him as the progenitor and are proud of the fact.
The West has ignored the Quran as a source of history and for the early pre-Christ priod has relied solely on the Bible. The inexactitude and discontinuity of narrated accounts in the Bible texts is now openly acknowledged and admitted all around.
I have used both the Biblical and the Quranic sources to give a complete picture in the biographical sketch of the Semitic patriarch and I believe this is the first attempt of its kind.
Abraham's life in his native city of Ur in Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) has been reconstructed from the exacavations of the site by Sir Leonard Woolley. The deciphering of the clay tablets of Babylonian and Sumerian times has enabled me to piece together the civilization of Ur and agriculture and commerce in the time of Abraham.
The Bible is silent on reasons of Abraham's departure from Ur. The Quran gives them in full and that material has been utilised. The Book is a plea to accept the one point programme proposed in the Qu'ran centuries ago that the followers of the three revealed religions worshop the one God that their progenitor - Abraham - worshiped.
The Appendix briefly gives the 4,000 years old history of the Jews, high-lighting the fact that they got protection for their person and religion only under the Muslims down the centuries and their own interest in the long run is to sheath the sword and shake the hand, which the Arabs under the King Fahd of Saudi Arabia are prepared to profer.
Let another Daniel in their midst once again read the writing on the wall.
ME, NE, ME, NE, TE, KEL
God hath numbered thy Kingdom and finished it. Thou art weighed inthe balance and found wanting.
The Bible: The Book of Daniels - Chap. VI.
For the first time I have ventured to suggest that the first Sufi, even in the pre-Islamic past was Abraham and another tradition of his - dressed in pure white while circumambulating around the Kaba - was incorporated in the Muslim ritual of Haj and lasts to this day.
M.A. History and Political Science. Educated at St. John's College, Agra and St. Catherine's College Cambridge (England)
Member of the I.C.S. Later C.S.P. Secretary of the Govt. of India, New Delhi in Communications. Secretary to the Govt. of Pakistan in Ministries of Industries, Fuel, Power and natural Resources and Communications. Member of the last united Inida Legislative Assembly. Member of Transport and Communications Commission, ECOSOC, United Nations (1950-55), representing Asia. Founding Chairman of the National Shipping Corporation, Oil and Gas Development Corporation, Monopoly Control Authority, Telephone Industries of Pakistan and many others.
Secretary General, R.C.D. the Regional Economic Development Organisation of Turkey, Iran, Pakistan (1968-71)
His work for internaional peace, harmony and economic co-operation earned him recognition outside. Besides the highest decorations of Hilal-i-Quaid-i-Azam, Sitara-i-Pakistan and Sitara-i-Quaid-i-Azam from his own country, he got OBE from U.K. for his work in Govt, of India.
Internnationally, West Germany gave him one of their highest awards, the Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit and so did Iran, Nishan-i-Humayun (Class I)
Author of "Voyage through History", published November 1984-- a two volume History and Autobiography Saga portraying three scores of this century (1911-1971), as vignettes of the sweeping global drama.
Interested in Art, Literature, Archaeology and Antiques, Abasin Arts Centre at Peshawar and the Urdu Academy and the Quarterly Journal "AL-ZUBAIR" at Bhawalpur were founded by him when commissioner there.
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