Prophethood
Risalah means prophethood or messengership and represents the various ways Allah communicates with humanity.
Islamic belief teaches that Allah wants to help people live good lives and so he sends messages about how to do this. Many of these messages are found in the Qurʾan (Koran)The Recitation or Reading. Allah’s eternal utterance revealed to the Prophet Muhammad by the Angel Jibril as his final revelation to humankind.. Muslims believe that messages from Allah are communicated through ProphetSomeone believed to give messages from God., or nubuwwah.
- The prophets are the connection between Allah and humanity.
- There are 25 named prophets in the Qur’an, although many believe there may have been as many as 124,000.
- All of the prophets are considered to be equal:
We make no distinction between any of them(Qur’an 2:136).
- Allah chose the prophets to reveal his truth. They are responsible for the revelationWhen something that was previously hidden becomes known. In religions such as Christianity, Islam and Judaism it may be the sending down of God’s word in the form of a teaching or a person. of God’s word.
- Messages from Allah were sent to the prophets using angels (malaikahThe Arabic word for angels, used in the Qur’an.).
- These messages are recorded in the holy books.
- The prophets performed miracles, which proved they really were prophets.
We believe in Allah, and the revelation given to us, and to Abraham, Ismail, Isaac, Jacob and the tribes, and that given to Moses and Jesus, and that given to (all) prophets from their Lord: we make no difference between one and another of them: and we bow to Allah.
All of the prophets received the same message about the one God, which shows that Allah is unchanging and that Islam is the true religion. Prophet MuhammadThe Arab prophet who founded the religion of Islam. was the final prophet.
