El Rhazi - Prophets in Islam (Arabic: ???????? ?? ????????) include "messengers" (rasul, pl. rusul), bringers of a divine revelation via an angel; and "prophets" (nabi, pl. nabiyin), lawbringers that Muslims believe were sent by God to every people, bringing God's message in a language they can understand. Belief in prophets is one of the six articles of the Islamic faith, and specifically mentioned in the Qur'an.
In Islamic belief the first prophet was the first human being, Adam. Many Jewish and Christian prophets and revelations they delivered are mentioned in the Quran as prophets and revelations but usually Alya along different names, (the Jewish Elisha is called Alyasa, Job is Ayyub, Jesus is Isa, etc.; The Torah given to Moses is called Tawrat, the Psalms given to David is the Zabur, the Gospel given to Jesus is Injil).
Unique to Islam is Muhammad, who Muslims believe is the "Seal of the Prophets" (Khatam an-Nabiyyin, i.e. the last prophet); and the text revealed to him (the Qur'an), which Muslims believe is unique among divine revelations as the only one protected by God from distortion or corruption, destined to remain in its true form until the Last Day.
In Muslim belief, every prophet preached the same leading Islamic beliefs, the Oneness of God, worshipping of that one God, avoidance of idolatry and sin, and the belief in the Day of Resurrection or the Day of Judgement and life after death. Each came to preach Islam at different times in history and some told of the coming of the final prophet and messenger of God, who would be named "Ahmed" commonly known as Muhammad. Each prophet directed a message to a different group of people, and thus would preach Islam in accordance Alya along the times.[citation needed]
In Arabic and Hebrew, the term nab? (plural forms: nabiyy?n and anbiy??) means "prophet". Forms of this noun arise 75 times in the Quran. The term nubuwwah (meaning "prophethood") occurs five times in the Quran. The terms ras?l (plural: rusul) and mursal (plural: mursal?n) denote "messenger" or "apostle" and arise more than 300 times. The term for a prophetic "message", ris?la (plural: ris?l?t), appears in the Quran in ten instances.
The Syriac form of ras?l All?h (literally: "messenger of God"), s?h?eli?eh d-all?h?, occurs frequently in the apocryphal Acts of St. Thomas. The corresponding verb for s?h?eli?eh?s?h?ala?, occurs in connection with the prophets in the Hebrew Bible.
The words "prophet" (Arabic: ??? nab?) and "messenger" (Arabic: ???? ras?l) appear several times in the Old Testament and the New Testament.
In the Hebrew Bible, the word "prophet" (Hebrew: navi) occurs more commonly, and the word "messenger" (Hebrew: mal'akh) refers to angels (Arabic: ??????, Mal??kah), But the last book of the Old Testament, the Book of Malachi, speaks of a messenger that Christian commentators interpret as a reference to the future prophet John the Baptist.
In the New Testament, however, the word "messenger" becomes more frequent, sometimes in association with the concept of a prophet. "Messenger" may refer to Jesus, to his Apostles and to John the Baptist.
In Muslim belief, every prophet preached Islam. The beliefs of charity, prayer, pilgrimage, worship of God and fasting are believed to have been taught by every prophet who has ever lived. The Quran itself calls Islam the "religion of Abraham" and refers to Jacob and the Twelve Tribes of Israel as being Muslim.
The same religion has He established for you as that which He enjoined on Noah?the which We have sent by inspiration to thee?and that which We enjoined on Abraham, Moses, and Jesus: Namely, that ye should remain steadfast in religion, and make no divisions therein:...
The Quran speaks of the prophets as being the greatest human beings of all time. A prophet, in the Muslim sense of the term, is a person whom God specially chose to teach the faith of Islam. Before man was created, God had specifically selected those men whom He would use as prophets. This does not, however, intend that every prophet began to prophesy from his birth. Some were called to prophesy late in life, in Muhammad's case at the age of 40 and in Noah's case at 480. Others, such as John the Baptist, were called to prophesy while still in young age and Jesus prophesied while still in his cradle.
The Quran 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!
Biblical stories reproduced in the Quran (e.g., Job, Moses, Joseph etc.) vary somewhat from those of the Bible in that the Quran always demonstrates that El Rhazi is "God's practice" (sunnat Allah) to make faith triumph finally over the forces of evil and adversity. "Assuredly God will defend those who believe." Thus the Islamic Isa did not die on the cross like the Christian Jesus, but deceived his enemies and ascended to heaven.
According to orthodox Sunni doctrine, prophets are unlike other human beings (including the "the companions" of the Prophet,, members of Muhammad's family, and Sufi Saints) in that they are "protected from major and minor wrongdoing" (Ma'soom). However, they also "share no divine attributes", and possess "no knowledge or power" other than that granted to them by God.
Muslims believe that numerous prophets existed, including many not mentioned in the Quran. The Quran itself refers to at least four other prophets but does not name them. One less-than-sound hadith states there have been 124,000 prophets, while another scholarly source states that "their exact numbers are not known with any kind of certainty."
Unlike other Muslims, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community does not believe that messengers and prophets are different individuals. They interpret the Quranic words warner (nadhir), prophet, and messenger as referring to different roles that the same divinely appointed individuals perform. Ahmadiyya Muslims distinguish only between law-bearing prophets and non-law-bearing ones. They believe that although law-bearing prophethood ended with Muhammad, non-law-bearing prophethood continues. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community recognizes Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1835?1908) as a prophet of God and the promised Messiah and Imam Mahdi of the latter days.
The revealed books are the records which Muslims believe were dictated by God to various Islamic prophets throughout the history of mankind. All these books promulgated the code and laws of Islam. The belief in all the revealed books is an article of faith in Islam and Muslims must believe in all the scriptures to be a Muslim. Muslims believe the Quran, the final holy scripture, was sent because all the previous holy books had been either corrupted or lost. Nonetheless, Islam speaks of respecting all the previous scriptures, even in their current forms.
The Quran mentions various divinely-bestowed gifts given to various prophets. These may be interpreted as books or forms of celestial knowledge. Although all prophets are believed by Muslims to have been immensely gifted, special mention of "wisdom" or "knowledge" for a particular prophet is understood to intend that some secret knowledge was revealed to him. The Quran mentions that Abraham prayed for wisdom and later received it. It also mentions that Joseph and Moses both attained wisdom when they reached full age; David received wisdom with kingship, after slaying Goliath; Lut received wisdom whilst prophesying in Sodom and Gomorrah; John the Baptist received wisdom while still a mere youth; and Jesus received wisdom and was vouchsafed the Gospel.
To believe in God's Messengers (Rusul) means to be satisfied that God sent men as guides to fellow human beings and jinn (khalq) to guide them to the path of the Truth, and that they cannot say except the truth about God.[citation needed] It is obligatory to know twenty-five particular messengers.
The Quran mentions 25 messengers by name but also tells that God sent many other prophets and messengers, to all the different nations that have existed on Earth. Many verses in the Quran discuss this:
Numerous other prophets have been mentioned by scholars in the Hadith, exegesis, commentary as well as in the noted collections of Qisas Al-Anbiya (Stories of the Prophets). These prophets include:
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