Prophets and Ilm ul Ghaib (Knowledge of the Unseen)
By Aftab Ahmad, New Age Islam
12 May 2014
God sent down one lakh
twenty four thousand prophets for the guidance of man. All the prophets
and messengers were chosen people of God. God sent prophets to every
community and nation. There is no community or nation in the world to
which a prophet was not sent. This truth has been presented in the
Quran on many occasions.
“And for every nation is a messenger.”(Yunus: 47)
“And for every people is a guide.”(Al-Rad: 7)
“And there was no nation but that there had passed within it a warner.”(Fatir: 24)
All the prophets
tried to prevent his community or nation from idol worship and shirk and
other social and moral vices. As a result, their community opposed them
because they were not ready to shun the religion of their forefathers.
Another reason for their opposition to the message of the prophets was
that they were also human beings like them and were part of the same
society. When they claimed that they were prophets sent down by God and
that they were ordained to tell people not to worship false gods, they
would be surprised as to how one who ate like men and wandered about in
the market place be a prophet. They wondered if they were prophets sent
by God why angels did not accompany them or why their appearance was not
different from ordinary persons. The Quran says about prophets:
“Those were the ones
upon whom Allah bestowed favour from among the prophets of the
descendants of Adam and of those We carried [in the ship] with Noah, and
of the descendants of Abraham and Israel, and of those whom We guided
and chose. When the verses of the Most Merciful were recited to them,
they fell in prostration and weeping.”(Mariam:58)
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