If the researcher whose aim is
seeking the truth has passed over his first step and believed in
the existence of a Lord who is managing the whole of this
universe, will bind him to have faith in the existence of
prophets who would undertake the task of conveying the message of
that Lord Whom He didn't recognize by the naked eye nor by the
senses; otherwise no one would have managed to find an access to
acquire knowledge by himself about the Lord and this is what we
have already known.
There is no definite knowledge to
restrict the time when our forefather Adam descended to earth but
there are some estimations which indicated that such an event
took place some ten thousand years ago approximately. What
concerns us of this history is that the period which lies between
the descending of Adam (P.B.U.H.) to earth and up to now the
earth has not been empty of prophets, trustees and proofs upon
His creation.
Apostleship, prophet-hood and
messages are descended subsequently along the ages and
generations so that the number of the prophets mounted to one
hundred twenty-four thousand prophets who were sent to people by
truth from God and their speech is but the speech of Allah and
their obedience is but obedience of Allah and they never utter a
word of their own except from Allah to whom be ascribed all
perfection and glory by means of His inspiration:
"He speaks not out of passion; it
is but inspiration which comes to him (to convey to people) at
the head of these prophets are five only and they are called (Ulu
Al-Azm) which means: the "people of might" namely: Noah, Abraham,
Moses, Jesus and Muhammad (P.B.U.T.) and Muhammad stand in the
van as being their master and the best among them and that he
came by truth and verified the legality of their being as true
Messengers of Allah.
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