BELIEF in the PROPHETS
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Outline
Prophets and Prophethood
Divine Purposes for Sending the Prophets
Characteristics of the Prophets
The Essentials of Prophethood
How many Prophets have been sent to mankind?
Prophets Conveyed the Same Message
What is a ‘miracle’?
Why are Prophets human?
Were there any woman prophets?
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Who are Prophets and What is
Prophethood?
Prophethood is the institution of bringing message
from God to His servants
Prophets were chosen men through whom God
manifested Himself to illuminate the way of mankind
so that mankind might be guided to the truth and be
purified of sins
“God was gracious to the believers when He raised up among them a
Messenger from themselves who recites to them the verses (of His Book) and
shows them His signs [in their selves and in the universe], purifies them [of
their sins and their deviations of thought and belief], and instructs them in the
Book and the Wisdom. They were evidently in manifest misguidance before.”
[Quran, 3:164]
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Who are Prophets
A prophet has brilliant intelligence and pure
soul
Prophethood is not a position acquired through
brilliance of intelligence and purity of soul. A
Prophet is specially brought up by God.
Prophethood is the highest rank and a honor a
man can receive from God.
No ordinary man can achieve the rank of any
prophet.
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Who are Prophets
A Prophet is protected by God against
all kinds of sin, whether major or minor,
because he is created for a special
purpose.
The Prophets never speak as a result of
whims and fancies
“Nor does he speak of (his own) desire. It is no less
than revelation sent down to him.” [Quran 53:3-4]
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Important
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Risalt ki gwahi ya elan-e-Risalt ki gwahi
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Risalat
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Hazrat Abubakkar RA
Hazrat Ali RA
Announcement
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Every Muslim
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Prophets mentioned in the Qur’an
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Adam
Idris (Enoch)
Nuh (Noah)
Hud
Saleh
Ibrahim (Abraham)
Isma'il (Ishmael)
Ishaq (Isaac)
Lut (Lot)
Ya'qub (Jacob)
Yousef (Joseph)
Shu'aib
Ayyub (Job)
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Musa (Moses)
Haroon (Aaron)
Dhu'l-kifl (Ezekiel)
Dawud (David)
Sulaiman (Solomon)
Ilias (Elias)
Yunus (Jonah)
Asaaihh
Uzair
Zakariyya (Zechariah)
Yahya (John)
Isa (Jesus)
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Cont…
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Prophets have divine message. They are
MESSENGERS of GOD.
Prophets have miracles which are done by
God through them.
Prophets work for the good of mankind.
Prophets never lie.
Prophets do not ask for wages or power and
status.
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What is the Divine Purpose for
Sending the Prophets?
The Prophets were sent
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to illuminate the way of mankind
to guide people to the service of God
to teach people the meaning of creation
to teach God’s laws
to be examples
to establish the balance between this world and
the next
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to be God’s witnesses
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Some characteristics of the Prophets
The Prophets
 depended on revelation
 were sincere in every action
 were very patient in faces of adversity
 were very compassionate toward all living
beings
 called people wisely and with kindness
 called humankind to God’s Unity
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The essentials of Prophethood
The essentials of Prophet hood common to all of the
Prophets are, according to the theologians, as
follows:
Truthfulness
Trustworthiness
Convey the message
Intellect
Infallibility
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An important point!
“I am for you a trustworthy Messenger, so serve you
God, and obey you me. I ask of you no wage for
this; my wage falls only upon the Lord of the
Worlds.” [Quran 26:107–9, 125–7, 143–5, 162–4,
178–80]
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How many Prophets have been sent to
mankind?
 No region or people has been altogether deprived of Divine
enlightenment through God’s chosen servants, His prophets.
 Directly or indirectly, all people of all periods have, at some time in
their history, known or been aware of a prophet and of his teaching.
There never was a people without a Warner having lived among
them. (Quran 35:24)
And We assuredly sent among every people a Messenger. (Quran
16:36)
 The Qur’an mentions 26 out of 124,000
We did in times past send Messengers before you; of them there
are some whose stories We have related to you, and some whose
story We have not related to you. (Quran 40:78)
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Prophets Conveyed the Same
Message
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All the prophets called humankind to God's unity.
In their teachings, differences might have happened in minor
matters depending on the conditions of their peoples. However,
all these teachings are the same in essence. E.g., stealing is
evil and a sin in all; yet, the way a thief is punished might differ.
For We assuredly sent amongst every people an Messenger
(with the command), ‘Serve God and eschew evil.’ (Quran 16:36)
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Whenever people fell into darkness after a Prophet by
forgetting, changing and distorting his message, God sent
another one to enlighten them again. This continued until the
coming of the Last Prophet.
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What is a ‘miracle’?
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A miracle is an extraordinary event that God
Almighty brings about at the hands of a
Prophet to prove his Prophethood, strengthen
the believers' faith, and break the
unbelievers' obstinacy.
Examples:
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The Staff of Moses
Healing of Jesus
The Holy Qur’an
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Were Prophets human?
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If Prophets came from angels, people would
object to this saying, “We cannot be like them
so we cannot follow them.”
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The Prophets’ being human helps convey the
message easily and in a more
understandable way
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Were there any woman prophets?
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Prophets were from men.
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“And before thee also the messengers We sent
were but men, to whom We granted inspiration: if ye
realise this not, ask of those who possess the
Message.” [Qur’an 16:43]
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Characteristics of Prophethood of
Holy Prophet (PBUH)
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Last Prophet (Ahzab-40)
Caused mercy for all Universes
Complete Deen
Oswa-e-Hasna (Ahzab-21)
The Book
Allah’s Work
Mukarm-e-Akhlaq
Meeraj (Bani Israil-1, najam-7-18)
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Responsibility being Muslim
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Tahauz-e-Namoos-e-Risalat
To Act Upon Oswa-e-Hasna (perfect
Example)
Understanding , preaching and acting upon
Shraih
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