Apostleship ( i.e. Risalat/) God alone and none else could have granted His creatures,knowledge and guidance. With the creation of man started the divinely commissioned apostleship ( in Arabic the Risalat) for the guidance of mankind. Every unit of the human race in every part of the globe,had a Warner and a Guide,i.e. , an apostle from God and even that in the language of the people. :- And for every people (want sent) an apostle; and when came their apostle, the matter between them was decided with equity and they shall not (in the least) be done (any) injustice. (Quran : 10:47) And indeed raised We in every nation an apostle (of Ours) (preaching) that Worship ye God (only) and shun ye (the worship of every kind of ) idol, so of them were some whom God guided, and of them were others on whom error was confirmed; Therefore, travel ye in the earth, then see what hath been the end of the belies. (Quran : 16:36) A guide from God should necessarily be infallible, i.e. sinless by nature and all the apostles of God were naturally so. Otherwise the one who is himself a fallible, i.e. amenable to sinning cannot reasonably preach sinlessness to the others. Though the names of all these apostles of God, are not given in the Holy Quran the number of these apostles is reported to be a lakh and twenty-four thousand, and this number may mean the hugeness or the innumerable nature of the number of the guides that were given to humanity since its advent on earth. The first of them was Adam and the last, the Holy Prophet Muhammad (saw), with whom concluded the apostleship and after whom neither any other apostle came nor would ever come until the end of the world. A Muslim has to essentially believe in the finality of the apostleship of Muhammad (saw), the Last Apostle of God. This is another proof positive of Islams being the universal religion of man that unlike any other religious order of the world, Islam, demands faith in the infallibility and the truthfulness of all the prophets preceding the Holy Prophet Muhammad (saw), and in their really being the Messengers from God, who had been sent for the guidance of the human units in the different parts of the world.
Posted on: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 15:57:54 +0000
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