A prophet is a person whom Allah,
the Almighty appoints from among His creation to convey His
message to people; therefore, he eats food and walks in the
markets and marries women but this man must be merited with
particular specifications, high and lofty perfections and
elevated manners which can distinguish him from the rest of
people.
This is what we usually term as:
"infallibility" in order to be the center of trust, respect and
regard of those who gather around him to the extent that if he
submits to prophet-hood and starts foretelling and preaching
about His Lord, it will then be incumbent upon them to obey him
and believe in what he preaches them for what they have known of
him about his honesty, truthfulness and good manners.
This is the real state of being of
our Prophet Muhammad (P.B.U.H.). It is he who has been known in
public as: the rightful and the honest person who is endowed with
high morals and praise-worthy traits and is well-known by the
far-off and the near-by dignitaries of Macca and its roundabouts.
How not?! Allah has pre-ordained him to play that
tremendous and serious role in the life of this nation and that
is as already mentioned: Prophet-hood.
The noble and sublime attributes
which are enjoyed by any prophet have not been acquired nor they
come through practicing a special sport but they have been of
Allah's bounty and divine endowments offered by His Almighty to
His well-chosen number of people because the one who conveys of
Allah-must be integrated, non-forgetful, infallible and
incredulous and all that will be listed as pre-requisites of
preaching people in the name of Allah, the Merciful, the
Compassionate so that no defect or blemish nor any wrong in
conveying the information may occur while conveying information
from Allah to whom be ascribed all glory and perfection to His
creation.
The Prophets'
Characteristics
The prophet is privileged with
some characteristics which distinguish him from other people who
lack possession of those qualities. Among them are the
following:
1. Divine Inspiration: This merit is specified
for prophets only which is a commoner route for the communication
of the prophet with the Unknown World.
2. Infallibility: It necessitates that the
prophet should be infallible against committing any crimes
whether big or trifle ahead of which is: Lying. The one who is
untrue cannot convey the message of heaven in truth and with
strictness to people.
3. Perfection: The prophet must be endowed with
psychological and mental perfection and infallibility against
wrongdoing is among them as well as casual flaw and forgetfulness
because they are of the necessities of
preaching.
4. Marvellousness: Prophets enjoy the ability of
showing marvels to convince people that within every prophet a
gigantic ability exceeding the human energy to facilitate to the
people the state of confession in his extra abilities and making
them believe in him.
5. Guardianship: It is of two
kinds:
A) Formative Mandate: It means the
ability to subject the existing assets and things and the right
of employing them on behalf of the owner of the guardianship
without affecting the principle of Monotheism which confirms that
everything returns to Allah, the Almighty, to whom be ascribed
all glory and perfection.
In the holy Quran came that if
there had been a formative mandate with one of the creation, it
will surely be through Allah's permission so that some suspicion
of polytheism should not pierce into the minds of the people.
Allah, the Almighty, said: " through the tongue of Jesus
(P.B.U.H.)
"And will make him (Jesus) a
Messenger to the Children of Israel (saying): "I have come with a
sign from your Lord, that I design for you out of clay, a figure
like that of a bird and breathe into it, and it becomes a bird by
Allah's Leave and I heal him who was born blind and the leper and
I bring the dead to life by Allah's Leave." (Aal Umran:
49).
B) The Legislative
Mandate:
means that the prophets alone can
possess the right of legislation i.e. the ability of deriving the
correct and legal right of legislation which corresponds with the
divine judgments of Allah, the Almighty, and that the owner of
this mandate has also the right of establishing good and
forbidding evil and the others must wholeheartedly obey him
without any dispute.
Below you find the names of the
prophets whose divine Books are mentioned in the holy
Quran:
1. The
Prophet Noah whose book is the Plates.
2. The
Prophet Abraham whose book is the Scripture.
3. The
Prophet David whose book is the Zabor.
4. The
Prophet Moses whose book is the Torah.
5. The
Prophet Jesus whose book is the Gospel.
6. The
Prophet Muhammad whose book is the Quran.
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