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Accordingly, Abraham’s dream was not a divine commandment to sacrifice his son. Abraham had just misinterpreted the dream’s lesson, and God had “rescued his son from Abraham’s misapprehension.”41 Today, more than a billion Muslims around the world recall Abraham’s ordeal every year in the Eid al-Adha. Only very few of them are, however, aware of this alternative interpretation of the story. For just
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Mustafa Akyol (Reopening Muslim Minds: A Return to Reason, Freedom, and Tolerance)