The Prophets in Islam

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Each prophet brought the same basic ideas of Islam which is the submission to God, his words and his orders. They brought the belief in a single God and the avoidance of idolatry and sin. Each came to preach Islam and told of the coming of the final law-bearing prophet and messenger of God: Muhammad. Each prophet directed a message to a different group and each prophet taught minor variations in sharia (or the practice of religion) to a different target audience. These variations constitute applications of Islam: mainstream Muslims do not consider them discrete versions of Islam. Islamic tradition holds that God sent messengers to every nation. Muslims believe that God sent Muhammad in the end to "seal" and to convey the divine message to the whole world (To sum up and finalize the word of God), whereas he sent the other messengers (rasul) to convey their messages to a specific group of people or to an individual nation. Muslims regard Adam as the first prophet and Muhammad as the last prophet; (from the traditional interpretation of Muhammad's title Seal of the Prophets). Islam regards Jesus as a rasul (and sometimes as a nabi) because he received wahy (revelation) from God, through which God revealed the Injil (Gospel) to him. They, like the Christians, believe in the return of Christ, and have great respect for Christ and his mother Maryam. He is called Eesa (Isa), son of Maryam. They do not believe, however, that he was the son of God or that he was God. Islamic theology recognises as many as 124,000 prophets. Five of them (sometimes known as Ulul Azmi or the Imams literally: "leaders" of the Rasuls) receive the highest reverence for their perseverance and unusually strong commitment to God in the face of great suffering, namely: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Nuh Ibrahim Musa Isa Muhammad

Prophets of Allah in the Qur'an :

Adam Idris Nuh Hud Shaleh Ibrahim Luth Ismail Ishaq Yaqub Yusuf Ayyub Sy Musa Harun Zulkifli Daud Sulaiman Ilyas Ilyasa Yunus Zakaria Yahya Isa Muhammad

Distinguishing between prophets and messengers

In short, Islam regards every messenger as a prophet as well, but not every prophet as a messenger. The Qur'an, like the quoted passage from the New Testament, may rank a messenger higher than a prophet. For example, whenever both titles appear together, "messenger" comes first. Crucially, a messenger delivers a new religious law (Sharia) revealed by God, whereas a prophet continues an old one. God sends both prophets and messengers as givers of good news and as admonishers of their people. In the case of messengers, however, it appears that a close relationship exists between them and their people (ummah). A messenger will become the witness that God will take from that community on the Day of Judgment (see the following Sura; Yunus 10:48; An-Nahl 16:38; Al- n n 23 46; G 40 5; n-Nisa 4:45; Al-Qasas 28:75). According to the Qur'an, God sent Muhammad to all of humanity and to the Djinn. Muslims distinguish between celestial and human messengers. In the Qur'anic world, God has made the angels messengers but not prophets. The human messengers, however, also function as prophets though not every prophet serves as a messenger. Angels always carry "orders" to the human prophets or messengers on what to say, what to do, and so forth. While human messengers deliver some messages about new orders to the people, prophets only reinforce previous orders by earlier messengers or prophets, but since the angels carry orders to prophets to do their duty, then all angels of revelations count as messengers.

The status of prophets

The Qur'anic verse 4:69 lists various virtuous groups of human beings, among whom prophets (including messengers) occupy the highest rank. Verse 4:69 reads: All who obey Allah and the messenger are in the company of those on whom is the Grace of Allah,- of the prophets (who teach), the sincere (lovers of Truth), the witnesses (who testify), and the Righteous (who do good): Ah! what a beautiful fellowship!

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