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ALL THE
PROPHETS CALLED HUMANKIND TO GOD’S UNITY
The cornerstone of the
Prophetic mission was to preach Divine Unity. All the Prophets concentrated on
this basic principle, as stated in the Qur’anic verse:
O my people, serve
God: You have no god other than He. (Hud, 11.84)
God sent many Prophets
during human history. There is no people to whom a Prophet was not sent. The
agreement of all the Prophets, who came at different times and in different
places, on a single basic principle demonstrates, without doubt, that they did
not speak or act on their own, but taught the Message they received from God.
The disagreement of philosophers and thinkers - no matter how great they may be
- depending on their own intellect and findings, and the differences of opinion
frequently observed even within a philosophical or sociological school
vis-à-vis the agreement and accord among the Prophets, undeniably prove that
while the former propagate the outcome of their defective reasoning, the latter
were taught by a Single, Eternal Teacher, God. This fact is also a strong
evidence of Divine Unity, the principle on which they unanimously concentrated
their mission, as declared by the Last of them:
The most
meritorious of the words spoken by me and the Prophets before me is: There
is no god but God, He is One, having no partners.1
1. Imam Malik, Muwatta,
Hajj, 246; Hindi, Kanz al-’Ummal, 5.73.
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Last Updated on September 26, 2000
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