This land was set aside for all the Arab nation. In the middle of this land sets Israel Than land GOD has set aside for the Jews.
I have asked along with many others "When and How did Islam begin?" Islam is not mentioned in the Bible directly , there is an outline the Bible of the Arabic people. The Arabic people who are the Children of Abraham who lived the “eastern country”. The history of the Muslim people begins with the prophet Abraham and Ishmael, his firstborn son.
"Genesis 15:18
As we can see, this covenant was intended to be of the same generality as God's covenants with Noah (Genesis 9:8-17), and David (2 Samuel 7; 23:5). God's covenant was intended to be a covenant with those who are obedient to Him and follow his command, not a covenant that makes a certain group of people genetically superior and closer to God even from before their birth, such that they are his "chosen children," and God's prophethood and message can only come from their lineage.
When Abraham reached one hundred years of age, God blessed him with a second son, Isaac (Genesis 21:5). Isaac was born to him through his first wife, Sarah. The Bible tells us that because of Sarah's jealousy that Ishmael may inherit with her own son Isaac (Genesis 21:10), she had Abraham cast out Hagar and Ishmael and send them to the wilderness of "Paran" (genesis 21:21). We are told that she was particularly angry with what she considered to be a mockery on the part of Ishmael towards her own son Isaac. This incident is alleged to have occurred after Isaac was weaned (remember this) as narrated in Genesis 21:8.
Sarah now allegedly ordered Abraham to cast Hagar and Ishmael out, (apparently, in Abraham's tribe, children who mock their brothers and sisters are to be thrown out in the nearest desert along with their mothers) Abraham obeyed Sarah and cast the "bondwoman" and her son in the desert and was blessed by God who told him to "hearken unto her voice." Abraham gave Hagar provisions and water and put her child "Ishmael" upon her shoulder and left them in the wilderness of Beer Sheba in Southern Palestine. When they ran out of water, an angel appeared and conveyed to her the words of God: "Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand; for I will make him a great nation." God then showed her a well of water and they drank. Ishmael dwelt in the wilderness of "Paran" and begat twelve sons one of whom was called "Kedar." As mentioned in 6.4, the Arabic form of the word Paran is Faran or Pharan. It means "two who migrated." It appears that the place took it's name from Hagar and Ishmael who came there as two refugees.
We, as Muslims, have a very similar narration of the same sequence of events in the Qur'an. However, in the Qur'an, the details differ from the narration of the Old Testament. Muslims respect Abraham, Sarah, Hagar, Isaac, and Ishmael (pbut) as very decent, moral and pious people. Muslims believe that the prophet Abraham (pbuh) received a revelation from God to take Hagar and her BABY, Ishmael, to a barren desert in Northern Arabia (Paran), more specifically to the future location of Makkah, and to leave them there. When Abraham began to leave, Hagar called out to him "where are you leaving us?" After repeating the question three times she asked him "Did God command you to do this?" Abraham answered "yes." So Hagar said: "Then He will not forsake us." When Hagar and her baby ran out of water she began to fear for her baby's life and took to running back and forth between the two hills of "Al-Safa" and "Al-Marwa" in search of water. Meanwhile, God sent an angel who caused water to gush out of the earth for them. This became the water of the well of "Zamzam" which the pilgrims of Makkah drink from today. Once water was found in this place the Bedouins began to settle there and it became the city of Makkah. Centuries later, Muhammad (pbuh), the prophet of Islam, was born to the descendants of Ishmael. The rites of hastening between the two hills of "Al-Safa" and "Al-Marwa" have been preserved in the Muslim's yearly pilgrimage to Makkah even to this day." (http://www.islamawareness.net/Mib/ch6_8_1.html)
The way my thought process works on this subject, to the now present day.
1)Saying both the Bible and the Qur'an are correct in the stories written about Hagar and her child, Can one come to the conclusion that they WERE cast of the tribe as Sara wished. (yes)
2)Thinking about living in the desert, it has to be a very hard and unforgiving life.
3)Time passes and now the prophet Muhammad is born, lives , and the Qur'an is written by his scribes.
4) The prophet Muhammad dies, 18 years later the first Qur'an is published.
So we now come to present day: 1786
The newly free America send 3 men to talk to the head people over Islam. The response we get in 1786 is the same response we get in 2015 from the same people.
"Here is just a part of the March 28, 1786 letter to John Jay, the United States Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Continental Congress, signed by John Adams and Thomas Jefferson concerning their conversation with the Tripoli ambassador. (Thomas Jefferson."The Papers of Thomas Jefferson". Princeton Univ. Press. pp. 9:358.) As you read the entire letter keep asking yourself if you see any similarities between 1786 and today's challenges by what the Muslim Brotherhood and their affiliates such as CAIR, ISNA and other unindicted co-conspirators of the Holy Land Foundation terrorist funding trials are trying to force upon us? Why did the Bush and Obama Department of Justice refuse to prosecute them? Here is a part of the 1786 letter from Adams and Jefferson:
"The Ambassador answered us that it was founded on the Laws of their prophet, that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as Prisoners, and that every musselman who should be slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise." (http://www.danielpipes.org/comments/195692)
This is the same as the above writting but it has a link to a interview about this same subject. http://viral.buzz/video-history-lesson-of-our-founders-and-muslims-obama-should-watch-this/
Now I am asking this question not to offend but to learn the thought process of others. So keep all responses clean.
1) If Sara would not have ordered Abraham to cast out Hagar and the child, Would Islam be such a violent faith?ESP. since Sara could not bare children and told Abraham to sleep with Hagar to have a child.
2) Again just a question.... Is there any way some of the anger we see in Islamic extremists related to a centuries old resentment to the fact that Abraham did as Sara commanded him to do and cast out The Prophet Muhammad's direct decedents. Not only was this a shun to this side of Abraham's family but also showed a male taking orders from a female, showing in some way man and females at least equal.
Again this is only to find out the way others think besides myself. Thank you all
