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THE PRAYERWhy did the great prophets declare themselves in special places?

The History of the Apostles is a part of the history of religion.

Qura’n has described the history of the apostles in various verses and names of many Surahs have been kept on the names of the apostles. The story of the great Moses son of Imran has been covered in various Surahs of the Qura’n from various angles.

Now these stories were not mentioned to pass the time but o describe the features like thoughts, moral codes and awareness of God in the divine religions and to present the living examples of history.

It can of course be said that due diligence and research is needed to unravel the stories about the great prophets, their ministry and their times. In other words this research is regarded as one of the necessities for unraveling the issues of those times. There is no doubt that we will then be able to complete that which has been described in this book and we can also deal with issue of knowledge..

A criterion has to be fixed to ascertain the parameters about the history of the apostles. We will avoid this for the moment and will present the history of the apostles in a very concise and topical form Inshallah in due time. That discussion will be profitable and pleasant.

As we have discussed earlier the basic tenets of the divine religion are the same. The difference can only be found in matters that are non-basic and in parts. Certain questions do arise “Why did the great Prophets come one after another to people with new religions and books? Why were new religions required to replace the old one when they all had the same basic rules and tenets? Why did the last prophet announce the end of this continuity or is it that humans will no longer require a new religion or a new prophet?

The answer to these doubts can be found in the details of these divine religions after due deliberations. It is true that all the prophets had declared the Oneness of God to be their main teaching and it is certain that the people of yore did not understand the issue as well as people did after thousands of years.

In other words, the details of (Tawhid) Oneness of God, deeds, worship, creativity, authority and rule are not such that they could be compatibly understood by the ancient nations. They remained satisfied by the Oneness of God’s entity only but never paid attention to the details of the other forms.

This is their situation regarding resurrection, Day of Judgment and the status of the prophets and their attributes. The same can be said about their form of worship also. There has been a serious increase in understanding and knowledge of these issues after understanding and learning about he details.

It is evident that the spread of culture has put the life of humans in further problems as the days passed and this was due to the new laws.

This is why new laws were promulgated among the people to solve their issues and there was a continuous chain of apostles to fulfill this task We can understand this by a very simple example: Let us consider the educational stages of children, teenagers and young men which begins from the kindergarten level, goes on to the middle school level and then reaches the higher level of research and specialization. All the students study mathematics in the kindergarten level, school level and then graduate and post graduate levels and their level of understanding becomes different. Then there are four initial levels of classes “Ibtadai, A’dadi, Jama’ and Doctorate”

In the five major religions sent by God we find the same differences in certain issues. In the first level Noah was responsible for the education of the people, in the second level it was Abraham and then Moses and Jesus who were all connected to any one level of teaching., Then came the final stage and the responsibility of this was entrusted to the Last Messenger.

The second question is also clarified which is related to the completion or perfection of religion and its finality.

A Clear Proof

Just as a man passes through various stages of education to reach the end or when he reaches the stage when he learns the basic and the special tenets and rules because the solution of the problems depends on these tenets which are common.

So the Last Messenger also came with the knowledge through which he could solve the problems in the future. It is therefore possible for the believers to reach a level of perfections through the study of these tenets. Qura’n is the book that has all the truth that suffices for thousands of years.

Should we understand as some ‘liberated’ people construe, that mankind has become free from the need of a prophet? Actual what it means is that he teachings and tenets brought by the Last Prophet are vast and precise and we can overcome our difficulties in the times to come through them.

You can ask why such guidance and such teachings were not bestowed on Noah. We will answer: This is because he could not teach the knowledge required for a doctorate in the initial stage. The people in those stages did not have the capacity to accept and understand such a high level of education.

We will deal this issue in details when we discussion the special category of prophethood Inshallah.

We now thank God for His grace and conclude this discussion on the general principles of apostleship.

 

THE PRAYERWhy did the great prophets declare themselves in special places?
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