| The Messengers And The Messages |
| Umar Sulaiman al-Ashqar |
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- THE MESSENGERS AND THE MESSAGES – Book Sample
§ CONTENTS of THE MESSENGERS AND THE MESSAGES book
§ PARTONE THE MESSENGERS AND PROPHETS
· CHAPTER ONE
- DEFINITIONS
- Definition of a Nabi (Prophet)
- Definition of a Rasool (Messenger)
- The difference between a Messenger and a Prophet
- Belief in the Prophets and Messengers is one of the basic principles of faith
- The connection between belief in Allah and belief in
- the Messengers and their message
- The Prophets and Messengers form a large group
- Among the Prophets and Messengers are those whose
- stories Allah has not told us
- The Prophets and Messengers who are mentioned
- in the Qur’an
- Four from among the Arabs
- The sons of Ya’qoob
- Prophets whom we know of from the Sunnah
- Sheeth
- Yoosha’ ibn Noon (Joshua the son of Nun)
- Righteous people who may or may not have been Prophets
- Dhu’I-Qarnayn
- Tubba’
- it is better not to make any definite statement concerning Dhu’l-Qarnayn and Tubba’
- AI-Khidhir
- Disbelieving in one Messenger is like disbelieving in ali
- the Messengers
- No-one can be said to be a Prophet without evidence
· CHAPTER TWO THE NEED OF MANKIND FOR THE MESSENGERS AND THEIR MESSAGES
- Introduction
- A valuable comment from Ibn al-Qayyim
- Ibn Taymiyah explains the need for the Messengers
- and the Message
- Comparison between the need of the body for knowledge of medicine and the need of the body and soul for
- knowledge of the Messengers
- Is it possible for reason to do without Revelation?
- The falseness of the Brahmins’ view
- Limits of reason ‘s role
- The position of reason in relation to the revelation
· CHAPTER THREE THE TASKS AND MISSIONS OF THE MESSENGERS
- – Conveying the Message Clearly
- – Calling People to Allah
- Examples which make the Messengers’ role clear
- – Bringing Glad Tidings and Wamings
- – Reforming and Purifying people’s Souls
- – Correcting Deviant ideas and Spurious beliefs
- – Establishing Proof
- – Directing the Affairs of the Ummalı
· CHAPTER FOUR REVELATION – AL-WAHY
- Prophethood is a divine gift
- The way in which Allah communicated with His
- Prophets and Messengers
- Different forms of Allah’s Revelation to His Messengers
- There are three such forms:
- The dreams of the Prophets
- How the angel came to the Messenger
- Portents of Revelation
- The effect of the angel on the Messenger
· CHAPTER FIVE THE ATTRIBUTES OF THE MESSENGERS
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Being human
- Man is qualified to convey the message
- Why were the Messengers not angels?
- Implications of the humanity of the Prophets and Messengers
- The Prophets were exposed to trials The Prophets engage in human work
- They do not have any divine or angelic qualities Humarı perfection
- Physical perfection l l
- Their outward appearances differed
- Perfect manners and attitude
- The best of people in lineage
- The Prophets were free men, far removed from slavery
- Talents and abilities
- Achieving true enslavement to Allah
- Masculinity
- The reason why the Messengers were men
- Prophethood of women
- Their evidence
- Refutation of their view
- Matters which are unique to the Prophets and not shared
- by other humans
· CHAPTER SIX THE INFALLIBILITY OF THE PROPHETS
- lnfallibility in bearing and conveying the message
- Matters which do not contradict infallibility
- Adam’s forgetfulness and denial
- A Prophet burned the city of the ants
- Our Prophet prayed +uhr as two rak ‘ahs
- out of forgetfulness
- They may err when trying to judge between people
- Those who deny these emotions of the Prophets and
- Messengers go against the texts
- Infallibility from sin
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The evil actions which the Jews attributed to the
- Prophets and Messengers
- The Christians attribute evil actions to the Prophets
- The view of the Muslim ummalı to the infallibility of the Prophets and their being protected from committing sin
- Infallibility and being protected against committing minor sins Evidence
- Those who say that the Prophets are infallible and
- protected against committing minor sins Two specious arguments
- Infallibility is a sign of humanity Honouring and respecting the Prophets Infallibility of people other than Prophets The “infallibility” of Al-Mu’izz al-Faa imi
- The infallibility of the Imams (religious and temporal leaders) The secret of infallibility
· CHAPTER SEVEN SIGNS OF PROPHETHOOD
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- Introduction
- Different Kinds of Signs
- – Signs and Miracles
- Definition of signs and miracles
- Kinds of signs
- Examples of the signs of the Messengers
- ) The sign of Allah’s Prophet Şaali]:ı (:ı )
- ) The miracle of the Prophet Ibraaheem (Abraham) ( )
- The signs of Allah’s Prophet Moosa (Moses) ( )
- Other signs l
- The miracles of Allah’s Prophet ‘Eesa (Jesus) ( )
- Signs of the Seal of the Prophets and Final
- Messenger ()
- The greatest sign
- A unique kind of miracle
- The Night Journey and Ascent into heaven
- (Jsraa ‘ and Mi ‘raaj)
- The splitting of the moon
- He ( ) caused food to increase
- The report of Jaabir ibn ‘Abdullah
- He caused water to increase, it flowed from between his fıngers
- His enemies were prevented from harming him
- Answers to his prayers
- The mother of Abu Hurayrah was guided by the
- prayer of the Messenger ( )
- Jareer became a horseman because of his prayer
- The hand of an arrogant person was affected by his prayer The blessing of the Messenger’s prayer reached
- the camel of Jaabir l
- Healing the sick l
- He healed a person whose leg was broken l
- He healed the eye of ‘Ali ibn Ahi Taalib ( )
- The shin of Salamalı ibn al-Akwa’
- He expelled the jinn from one who was possessed
- He told of unseen matters
- The sorrow of the tree stump
- The trees submitted to him, greeted him with salaam and spoke to him The greeting of the rock The complaint of the camel Miracles of people other than the Prophets The karaamaat of the awliyaa ‘
- The wisdom behind karaamaat being given to the awliyaa ‘
- Lights in sticks
- Blessed food
- Sufaynah and the lion
- A shout in Madeenah echoes in Syria
- Some karaamaat of the awliyaa ‘
- Righteousness is the greatest karaamah
- Miracles and devilish exploits
- – The Previous Nations were Told about the Coming of the Prophet *( )
- The Qur’an telis us that the earlier Prophets foretold the
- coming of our Prophet Muhammad ( )
- The supplication of Prophet lbraaheem (Abraham) (> )
- Prophet Moosa (Moses) foretold the coming
- of the Prophet ( )
- Other traces of this foretelling in the Bible
- ‘Eesa (Jesus) foretold the coming of the Prophet ( )
- Two likenesses of the Tawraat and Injeel
- Foretelling in the Old Testarnent
- The Messenger ( ) is mentioned by name in the Bible
- Places and events connected with the Messenger ( )
- are mentioned
- The Bible refers to one of the features of the place
- to which the Messenger (*) migrated
- The Bible refers to things that happened at the hands
- of the Prophet ()
- The rays and light which shone from his hand
- Plague went before him; pestilence followed his steps
- Yathrib was infected with fever, and hardly anyone could enter it without being affiicted
- General prophecies
- Prophecies from the Gospel
- Other prophecies from the Gospels
- From the Gospel of Luke
- Prophecies in the Gospel of Bamabas
- A view of the Gospel of Bamabas
- Prophecies in other world scriptures
- These prophecies were widely known before the Prophet ( ) came
- Description of our Messenger ( ) in the Torah
- Where is this prophecies in the Torah?
- The story of lbn al-Haybaan
- When what they knew came to them, they disbelieved in it
- ‘Abdullah ibn Salaam benefited from his knowledge
- The testimony of a Jewish boy
- The insight of a monk
- The Jewish scholars knew when the Prophet ( ) would emerge
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– A Glimpse at the Prophets
- Heraclius and Abu Sufyaan
- Their abstinence from the luxuries of this world
- – The Cali of the Messengers
- The call of our Prophet Muhammad ( )
- – The Help and Support Given by Allah to His Messengers
- A specious argument
· CHAPTER EIGHT THE VIRTUE OF THE PROPHETS AND THEJR VARYING STATUS
- The Superiority of the Prophets over Others
- There is no room for coincidence
- The belief that the lmams are supeıior to the Prophets
- The Seal of the Awliyaa’ and the Seal of the Prophets
- Precedence of some Prophets and Messengers over others
- The Messengers of strong will are the highest in
- status of the Messengers
- How are the Prophets and Messengers distinguished
- from one another?
- The virtue of the Final Messenger Muhammad ( )
- The texts which forbid making a distinction
- between the Prophets
§ PART TWO THE DIVINELY-REVEALED MESSAGES
· CHAPTER ONE BELIEF iN THE MESSAGES
- The Obligation of Believing in the Messages Belief in all the Messages
- How should we believe in the Messages?
- it is not sufficient only to believe in the Qur’an
§ CHAPTER TWO COMPARISON BETWEEN THE MESSAGES
- – Their Source and the Purpose Behind their Revelation
- – The General Message and the Specifıc Message
- – Preservation of the Messages
- Similarities and differences between the Divinely-
- Revealed Messages
- The one Religion
- How to determine Islam
- The essence of the Messengers’ call
- The previous Messages describe the reasons which
- oblige us to worship Allah
- Etemal Principles
- Matters of belief
- General principles
- Differences between the laws
- The Prophets are half-brothers
- – How Long or Short their Books were, and When They were Revealed
- The attitude of the final Message towards the previous Messages
- The final law is in no need of any other law
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