Ayat-ul-Ghadeer - Ziaraat.com

INTRODUCTIONTHREE QUESTIONS REGARDING MISSION OF THEPROPHETSIN THE NAME OF ALLAH, THE BENEFICENT, THEMERCIFULPRAISED BE ALLAH, AND HONORABLE AND PERFECTPEACE BE UPON MOHAMMED AND HIS INFALLIBLEIMMACULATE PROGENY.There are three questions regarding missions of the prophets. These questionswere not regarded adequately by scholars.First question: Conveying the Lord’s missive is the original mission of theprophets. It is the pivot on which the prophets’ duties and deeds are grounded.This is purposed for substantiating the Lord’s claim on His servants.A prophet, then, is a conveyor of an epistle. He fears the Lord and evades His ireand torment if he squanders or violates the instructions. For this reason, theprophets were wont to call people to witness perfection of their conveyance.In addition, the prophets are not asked to coerce or compel people on admittingand accepting their missions. By the same token, they are not admitted to submitpeople to their missions.As a second rule, it is to say that coercion and compulsion is rejected in mattersrespecting the divine religion. It is obligatory to preserve people’s freedom ofbelieving or refutation. They are, likewise, free to commit themselves to thereligion or deviate.This is the very meaning of opening school of life in this world, and testing peoplein guidance or aberrance by giving them the ability of doing good and evil. Theresult shall be shown in another stage and another world. Drawing people to thereligion by force contradicts principals of this test, and principals of freedom ofoption.Second question: The prophets’ goals are dedicated to the grand issues of peopleand societies. An apostle can be resembled to a divine engineer specialized inconstruction of cultures, societies and history. From these points, the prophets’missions should be looked upon. A scholar must ask himself how people’s cultureand history should have been in case this prophet had not been messaged by theLord, and what happened due to that prophet’s conveying the mission. Thiswonderment may be addressed in another form; how should paganism be nowadaysif Abraham was not chosen by the Lord for conveying the divine mission, or if hedid not found and plant bases and principals of monotheism in human societies?And how should the situation of the Arab lands specially, and the whole worldgenerally, be if the Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) was not chosen forcarrying the divine mission and moving this latter prolongation in monotheism andcivilization?The Prophet’s mission was forming a nation and leading it to occupying anadvanced position, if not the pioneer, amongst the other nations. That formationwas the best in content and structure.