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…..Islam dates back to the edge of Adam and its message has been conveyed to man by God's Prophets and Messengers
including Abrahim, Moses, Jesus and Muhammad. Islam's message has been restored and enforced in the last stage of the
religious evolution by God's last Prophet and Messenger Muhammad.
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Articles on Islam
Prophet Muhammad's Last Sermon
…..O People, no prophet or apostle will come after me and no new faith will be born. Reason well, therefore, O People,
and understand my words which I convey to you. I leave behind me two things, the Qur'an and my example, the Sunnah and
if you follow these you will never go astray.
All those who listen to me shall pass on my words to others and those to others again; and may the last ones understand my
words better than those who listen to me direcly. Be my witness oh Allah that I have conveyed your message to
your people."
MESSENGERS:
4:155 (They have incurred divine displeasure): in that they broke their Covenant: that they rejected
the Signs of Allah; that they slew the Messengers in defiance of right; that they said "Our
hearts are the wrappings (which preserve Allah's Word; we need no more)"; nay Allah hath set
the seal on their hearts for their blasphemy and little is it they believe. 659660661
661 Cf. ii. 88, and n. 92, where the full meaning is explained. Note the crescendo (heightening effect) in the argument.
Their iniquities were: (1) that they broke their Covenant: (2) that they rejected Allah's guidance as conveyed in His
signs; (3) that they killed Allah's Messengers and incurred a double guilt, viz., that of murder and that of a deliberate
defiance of Allah's law; and (4) that they imagined themselves arrogantly self-sufficient, which means a blasphemous
closing of their hearts forever against the admission of Allah's grace. Then begins another series of iniquities from a
different point of view: (1) that they rejected Faith: (2) that they made false charges against a saintly woman like Mary,
who was chosen by Allah to be the mother of Jesus; (3) that they boasted of having killed Jesus when they were
victims of their own self-hallucination: (4) that they hindered people from Allah's way: and (5) that by means of usury
and fraud they oppressed their fellow-men. (4.155)
4:163 - We have sent thee inspiration as We sent it to Noah and the Messengers after him; We
sent inspiration to Abraham Ismail Isaac Jacob and the Tribes to Jesus Job Jonah Aaron and
Solomon and to David We gave the Psalms. 668669
668 First we have a general statement: that inspiration was sent to many Messengers, and the inspiration was of the same
kind as that sent to the Prophet Muhammmad, for Allah's Message is one. Note that what is spoken of here is
Inspiration, not necessarily a Book. Every nation or group of people had a messenger: x. 47. Some of these
messengers have been mentioned by name in the Qur-an, and some not: iv. 164. (4.163)
669 Cf. ii. 136 and iii. 84. The list here given is in three groups. (1) The first group, Abraham's family, is the same as in ii.
136, (where see the note) and in iii. 84. (2) Then we have the prophets Jesus, Job and Jonah, who symbolise
patience and perseverance. (3) Then we have Aaron the priest and Solomon the King, both great figures, but each
subordinate to another primary figure, viz., Moses (mentioned in the next verse) and David (mentioned at the end of
this verse). David's distinction was the Psalms, some of which are still extant. Though their present form is different
from the original and they do undoubtedly include Pslams not written by David, the collection contains much
devotional poetry of a high order. (4.163)
4:164 - And messengers We have mentioned unto thee before and messengers We have not
mentioned unto thee; and Allah spake directly unto Moses;
4:165 - Messengers of good cheer and off warning, in order that mankind might have no argument
against Allah after the messengers. Allah was ever Mighty, Wise.
5:70 - We made a covenant of old with the Children of Israel and We sent unto them messengers.
As often as a messenger came unto them with that which their souls desired not (they became
rebellious). Some (of them) they denied and some they slew.
7:35 - O Children of Adam! If messengers of your own come unto you who narrate unto you My
revelations, then whosoever refraineth from evil and amendeth there shall no fear come upon
them neither shall they grieve.
11:69 - There came Our Messengers to Abraham with glad tidings. They said "Peace!" He
answered "Peace!" and hastened to entertain them with a roasted calf. 1565
1565 According to the sequence of Sura vii, the next reference should be to the story of Lut, and that story commences at
xi. 77 below, but it is introduced by a brief reference to an episode in the life of his uncle Abraham, from whose seed
sprang the peoples to whom Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad Al-Mustafa were sent with the major Revelations.
Abraham had by this time passed through the fire of persecutions in the Mesopotamian valleys: he had left behind him
the ancestral idolatry of Ur of the Chaldees; he had been tried and he had triumphed over the persecution of Nimrud:
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