Are Muslims Illigitimate chidlren and should we hate them?

Are the Muslims illegitimate Children and should we hate them? By Rabbi Simon Altaf

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Genesis 16:3 Then Sarai, Abram's wife took Hagar her maid the Mitzri (Egyptian), and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan.

This is an instance of a woman such as Sarah giving over her maid to Abraham the form of patriarchal marriage through whom Ishmael was born. In the modern world this may be called surrogacy but this was not just surrogacy but Hagar was Abraham’s third wife which is another common occurrence in the East. Eastern cultures mostly are polygamous even today. The Hebrews ability to have many children came about as a result of polygamy.

Scripture tells us that Abraham had dwelt ten years trying to reveal to us that it was almost ten years since the last time YHWH had spoken to Abraham and said to him that He would give him a son.

Sarah obviously did not think this would happen through her as Ten years had gone by and any human being might think that it is time to move on and surely this was in Sarah’s mind when she let Abraham had the son through Hagar since Sarah has accepted her fate of being a barren woman. Being barren is still considered a curse in the east because other women around you taunt you.

Genesis 16:9 So the Malakh hwhy said to her, Return to your mistress, and submit [1] yourself under her hand.

When Hagar had gotten pregnant she became a bit haughty and started taunting her sister wife Sarah because she was barren and then when Sarah retaliated Hagar fled while the Angel of YHWH (this angel is Yahushua) told her to go back and submit to Sarah.

Genesis 16:11 And the Malakh hwhy said to her, Behold, you are with child, and you shall bear a son, you shall call his name Yah’shma’el (Ishma’el);[2] because hwhy has heard your affliction.

It was YHWH that gave her the name for her son Ishmael which means “YHWH has heard and in the ancient a strong multitude.” From here we can see that the whole process from Sarah giving over Hagar to Abraham to the birth of the child is all legal and proper according to Torah. Nothing untoward had happened other than that the oestrogen of the two women came in the way of family; however Ishmael was the legitimate son of Abraham by every right and far from a human perspective had rights of inheritance.

The Torah rule is that a first born son must belong to the principle wife in order to gain the double inheritance. In this case the principle wife was Sarah while Hagar was an additional wife but also listed as a concubine. However the ruling territory belonged to Sarah in the North so only her son could rule unless special provision was made to allow another ruler but we know this did not happen. In the Horoite culture from which Abraham came they had rules of North/South divide and placing wives in these regions so that they could control two territories. They would never place wives in East/West axis as that was considered to be the areas for God.

Genesis 17:12 "He who is eight days old among you shall be circumcised, every male child in your generations, he who is born in your house or bought with money from any foreigner who is not your descendant.

The instructions were clear that YHWH had given Abraham the Abrahamic Covenant and commanded him to circumcise all the children starting at eighth days old. This circumcision was “forever.” Muslims still carry out the circumcision faithfully of their children. At that point in time Abraham was 99 years old and his son Ishmael was 13 years old thus he was circumcised at that age. While Christians to this day argue over whether to circumcise or not but the Muslims do not question the covenant and circumcise their children as taught in the first year usually in the first month.

Genesis 17:14 “And the uncircumcised male child, who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that person shall be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant.''

Christians are predominantly taught not to circumcise their children by their clergy yet it was an everlasting commandment and part of the covenant they cite for themselves. This was not for salvation but for righteousness sake. Yahushua was also circumcised on the 8^th day of His birth (Luke 2:21). Christian Pastors are wrong and ill advised who advise others not to circumcise. One should ask a Christian Pastor how long is everlasting? Those today who are not circumcised effetely cannot claim the Abrahamic-covenant and neither can claim the promises given to Abraham’s people. Citing out of context passages from Rabbi Paulos won’t help people win the argument it only shows how ignorant many are in regards to Torah law.

Genesis 17:15-16 Then Elohim said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name. (16) "And I will bless her and also give you a son by her; then I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of peoples shall be from her.''

Now YHWH reiterates the promise He had made to Abraham almost twenty five years ago that He would give him a son. He changes the name of Sarai to Sarah and it was not that YHWH rejected Ishmael in anyway but YHWH was showing Abraham a new thing that the covenant had to be worked through the son of Sarah who was the principle wife while Hagar was the additional wife so would be next in line of rights and inheritance. Note Abraham already had a wife called Keturah in the South and he had six sons from her (Gen 25:1-2) who were the ruling class in the south. Abraham’s people were Horoite ruling priests and they took two wives at minimum one in the North and one in the south. Abraham had four documented wives and other concubines with a total of nine sons one being Isaac. Isaac is singled out for prophethood.

The Abrahamic Covenant was to come through Isaac however the ruling class in the South were Keturah’s sons who became the rulers for over 1000 years in the Arabian Peninsula.

Abraham’s ruling wife in the North was Sarah and in the south was Keturah the daughter of Joktan. Joktan by the way was the first pure Arab so Arabs are actually older than so called Semitic Jews of today majority of which are actually converts from eastern Europe and in fact Arabs did not just descend from Ishmael but also from Joktan the son of Shem. Many Arabs have pure bloodlines while many Caucasian Jews today whether those who acknowledge or not can be traced back to Russia where they were converted from the Caucasus and then spread out to Europe and ended up in Israel today. The blood line Jews exist also but in the Middle-East and Africa predominantly with communities in Spain and Portugal. Those Jews today who speak Yiddish can be ruled out completely as the sons of Abraham since they are not. The Yiddish dialect came from Eastern Europe and has nothing whatsoever to do with the Biblical Hebrew culture. They can claim to be Israelites and join the Abrahamic-Faith covenant just as any non-Hebrew can enter the covenant and become an Israelite so did they but they cannot claim inheritance which solely belongs to Isaac’s sons. Note Isaac was from the line of Shem while the majority of Eastern Jewry today is from the line of Japheth.

Genesis 17:19 Then Elohim said: "No, Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac; I will establish My covenant with him for an everlasting covenant and with his descendants after him.

YHWH begins to narrow down the covenant working with Isaac so there is no misunderstanding although Ishmael is blessed by YHWH but the covenant and all subsequent prophetic dealings regarding Israel would come through Isaac. Note Ishmael’s mother was actually Egyptian so he was a mixture of both Arab and Egyptian blood considering His father was a son of Shem.

In order to meet the double portion inheritance Ishmael would have to be both firstborn and the son of the principle wife but we know that he was not the son of Sarah and that he was not the firstborn either. People in the middle-East do not have children when they are one hundred years old. Our people have always had children in the earlier twenties while Abraham also had children through Keturah (Note Keturah is not Hagar confused by European rabbis).

YHWH even showed us that He switched the blessings and covenants from the older to the younger. Abraham’s first born son was actually Jokshan mentioned in the book of Genesis 25:2 who was born to Keturah while Ishmael was not numbered as a first born. However his ruling wife Sarah the princess did not have a son so he was to become ruler of the Abraham’s Northern territory. Jokshan was Keturah’s first born son but labelled as number two in the order under Torah however in Afro/Asian cultures wife’s gave the name of their father or grandfather to the firstborn son as we see with Keturah in genesis 25:-1-2. Genesis 25:1 is misinterpreted by suggesting Abraham married her after Hagar, in fact she was his wife prior to the marriage to Hagar.

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Genesis 25:1 And Henceforth Abraham continued with his wife, and her name was Keturah.

Point one – Ishmael was born through Hagar who was Abraham’s likely third wife however Abraham had wife number one which was Sarah who was barren but his second wife was likely Keturah who had six sons prior to Isaac being born but they could not rule in the Northern territory (Israel is North in the African continent where Abraham’s people ruled) as that area belonged to Sarah. Note all six sons of Keturah ruled the Arabian Peninsula even to this day. Many city names in Yemen today still reflect the names of Joktan the son of Shem.

Sarah’s son Isaac was the promised son which is also stated in the Qur’an that Muslims hold as their sacred book (Sura 11:69-73).

Sura 11.69-73 And certainly Our messengers came to Ibrahim with good news. They said: Peace. Peace, said he, and he made no delay in bringing a roasted calf. 70 But when he saw that their hands were not extended towards it, he deemed them strange and conceived fear of them. . They said: Fear not, surely we are sent to Lut's people. 71 And his wife was standing (by), so she laughed, then We gave her the good news of Ishaq and after Ishaq of (a son's son) Yaqoub. 11.72 She said: O wonder! shall I bear a son when I am an extremely old woman and this my husband an extremely old man? Most surely this is a wonderful thing. 73 They said: Do you wonder at Allah's bidding? The mercy of Allah and His blessings are on you, O people of the house, surely He is Praised, Glorious.

The commandment in the Torah stated that a husband cannot favour a son from the second wife over the first even though Isaac had not been born yet but YHWH made this precept very clear early on with Abraham by personally performing a switch and later Moses wrote the precept which was well understood about Torah even by the Patriarchs.

Exodus 21:10 "If he takes another wife, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her marriage rights.

Wife number one that is Sarah. So her children will always get preference over the second or third wife and their children even if they are loved less. Biblical polygamy was practiced predominantly and very much part of Torah law even to this day in the Eastern nations including many Muslims follow the same patterns.

Deuteronomy 21:15-16 15 If a man has two wives,[3] one beloved, and another loved-less,[4] and they have born him children, both the beloved and the loved-less; and if the bechor (firstborn) son was on the one that was loved-less: 16 Then it shall be, when he makes his sons to inherit that which he has, that he may not make the son of the beloved bechor (firstborn) before the son of the loved-less,[5] which is indeed the bechor (firstborn):

Here YHWH is clear that even in a plural wife situation that if the man loves one of the wives and does not love the other he still must give preference to the bekhor (first born) son of the unloved. Yahuweh wanted to regulate the marriages so that women will not be left in an un-advantaged situation or their children neglected and without a father. Today women are quick to run to the divorce courts but in the Middle-Eastern culture and even Muslims and Sephardic Jews still have more than one wife and divorce is unheard of in these lands and communities. Popular divorce western style is only found among the westernised Muslims and Jews.

So coming back to the story of Ishmael he was not unfavoured in any way but he was not given the Covenant or it could not continue through his line so if the Muslims prophet Muhammad being the son of Ishmael through his progeny then it will be apparent why Muhammad cannot be the prophet for YHWH but he certainly became the prophet for Allah considering Allah and YHWH are two entirely distinct deities.

Genesis 17:20 "And as for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. He shall beget twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.

Ishmael was to beget twelve sons and they were to be princes. It should be apparent that twelve sons are not going to come from one woman as polygamy was the common lifestyle of the ancient Hebrews. Ishmael had two wives and here is the evidence.

Yahsar 21:17 And he and his mother afterward went to the land of Egypt, and they dwelt there, and Hagar took a wife for her son from Egypt, and her name was Meribah.

YHWH knew that Ishmael was going to have twelve sons but it is not God that he deliberately went out seeking a divorce but man? Unfortunately the Western culture today is lopsided and thinks what they do is right while the ancient culture is binary and priesthood centred. In modern culture deviant lifestyles are accepted such as homosexuality and other such types but in Scripture these were not given any precedence and were removed from the boundaries of the Hebrews and were solely practiced by gentiles. Today those who still practice such lifestyles are gentiles and cannot claim to be in the covenants of God and will be treated as such by God.

Yahsar 21:18 And the wife of Ishmael conceived and bare four sons and two daughters, and Ishmael and his mother and his wife and children afterward went and returned to the wilderness.

So she conceived four sons and two daughters. In my calculated opinion the mean average for one wife in the Bible is about five children. Some Hebrew families had many children, Jacob having twelve sons (Gen 35:22) through four wives was not an uncommon occurrence.

It was Abraham who ordered his son through using an idiom such as nail of the tent to mean to take another wife since Ishmael’s first wife was not only beating up her children but also cursing her children and her husband and this thing displeased Abraham greatly. A wife who does not know how to maintain the home and children needs to go back and retrain and that is exactly what Abraham told Ishmael to send her back to her father for training. Many contend this was a divorce however our evidence show us to the contrary that ancient Hebrews did not practice divorce but did send the wives back to the father as it also happened with Moses (Exo 18:2), hence why YHWH hated divorce (Mal 2:16) when later Israelites violated the rights of women.

The provision given for divorce in Deut 24:1 by Moses as it was indicated by Yahushua that this was not always so.

Matthew 19:7-8 They say to him, why did Musa (Moses) then command to give a certificate of Get, and to put her away? 8 He said to them, Musa (Moses) because of the hardness of your hearts allowed you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.

The women are really the nail of the tent (home) and if that nail becomes blunt then the holy One of Israel help those who have to deal with such nails because it can start to wreak havoc on a family, no wonder the Bible says this in the book of proverbs.

Proverbs 19:13 A foolish son is the ruin of his father, and the contentions of a wife are a continual dripping.

Ah I hear those ladies in the West who wear the pants (trousers in England) trying to correct me. I reply when a woman starts to wear pants a man’s attire then she has spiritually usurped the authority of God and it’s only a matter to time before she will tell other men where to go. Such women will have no blessings in this world or the next. They can now tell us where to go but there will come a day when YHWH will tell them where to go and then they will realise their mistakes.

Let me remind the ladies who are wives to submit to your husbands (Eph 5:22 be like Sarah, Rebeccah, Rachel and Leah) just as Yahushua commanded. The modernist women need usurping authorities in the home trying to become little gods. And the husbands are to love their wives unconditionally, give them respect even if they are haughty but pray for them and do not jump to the law courts for divorce, this is unholy and not the way of YHWH. The women who have put down their righteous husbands and humiliated them they too will get their justice.

Let’s get back to Ishmael. Did YHWH know that Ishmael would take another wife? Of course and fully approved it since Ishmael’s dad had four wives and Ishmael did not have a problem calling mummy to three other women.

The second wife of Ishmael was a very good woman and obedient and she respected and honoured Abraham her father in law even without knowing who he was when he visited her. Abraham in turn blessed his son Ishmael in the name of YHWH. Abraham was the one who approved for his son to have the second wife not condemning his son unlike today many Christians condemn fellow brothers who are in difficult marital situations and calling them names if they wanted to avoid divorce to save their marriage and take on another wife and perhaps separate for a time for healing in the first marriage.

Jashar 21:41 And Abraham said to her, I will not stop for I am in haste to continue my journey, but give me a little water to drink, for I have thirst; and the woman hastened and ran into the tent and she brought out water and bread to Abraham, which she placed before him and she urged him to eat, and he ate and drank and his heart was comforted and he blessed his son Ishmael.

Would a father bless his son if he was into false worship? There is no way of that happening since Ishmael obeyed and loved YHWH just as Abraham loved YHWH.

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Jashar 21:48 And Ishmael knew that it was his father, and that his wife had honored him, and YHWH blessed Ishmael.

This is written proof that YHWH blessed him for the sake of his second wife who was sincere and faithful while the first wife was getting retrained. We do not hear of what happened to her but it is likely she would have returned to Ishmael and Ishmael would have visited her after she was fixed up.

Quite an honour I might say for one that many people claim was unrighteous. Ishmael was indeed righteous albeit with his humanity issues which I must say we all also have and the Bible leaves us with the end of Ishmael showing us nothing negative about his belief system. I would suggest to you that Ishmael died believing in YHWH just like his dad Abraham so he too would have gone to be joined unto his fathers and we will see him in the resurrection to come when the Messiah returns.

Genesis 25:9 And his sons Y’tzhak and Yah’shma’el (Ishma’el) buried him in the cave of Machpelah,[6] which is before Mamre, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite,

In fact the last reference to Ishmael’s sojourn in Israel shows us that he went to bury his dad and mourn his death.

It would be very wrong for anyone to hate or show indifference to the Muslim people because there are some wonderful Muslim people out there. I know some Christians who go around saying the Muslims should be annihilated or removed from the land of Israel. This thing is obscene and should be avoided as the Muslims have all the rights to live in the land of Israel as long as they submit to Israel’s laws in line with international law.

They are children of Ishmael and the forefather Joktan the son of Shem. In the end the Bible paints a very interesting picture of the struggle of Abraham’s two sons, Isaac with the line of Israel the twelve Patriarchs (Israel’s sons) and Ishmael with the twelve princes so the final battle is already drawn and the battle is over a piece of real estate today known as Israel. The battle is spiritual but is being manifested in the physical.

Essentially as I have said in my book World War III – Unmasking the End Times Beast the conclusion is already evident, twelve sons of light (Israel) versus the twelve sons of darkness (Because of Islam). Now how many of Ishmael’s sons come to realisation of the light of Yahushua and be saved is something we do not need to question but we need to pursue as righteous servants of the most High to reach as many as possible that we can be the salt and the light of the earth to them so that the Son (Yahushua) may be manifested in their lives and many of them find eternal life. Amein.

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[1] The second wife must submit under the first wife. YHWH shows Hagar she is wrong to run away.

[2] YHWH loved Ishma’el and gave him his name meaning ‘The Voice of YHWH, the Mighty One.’

[3] Clear case for polygamy allowed by YHWH.

[4] Most bible translations use the word ‘hate’ which is incorrect in its Hebrew usage. The word in Hebrew means to love less not to hate as we understand the English language.

[5] See Appendix HB14. AF Bible.

[6] Hebron