Ishaq was promised to a couple everyone would have called too old: an aged woman who had never had a child and a husband with white hair. "Are you astonished at the decree of Allah?" His birth is the answer for every family that has been told it is too late.
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An old man with white hair, a wife who could not have children, and a prayer in the middle of the night.
Old, white-haired, with a wife who had never had children, Zakariya still asked, quietly, in the night: "Do not leave me alone, and You are the best of inheritors." He reminded himself that he had never been disappointed in prayer before. And Allah answered him.
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