Prophets From A Region
First, prophethood is strongly connected to where human civilizations existed. Prophets were sent to people, not to empty lands. The Qur’an itself says that messengers were sent to communities that had settled societies, languages, moral systems, trade, power structures, and the ability to preserve and transmit a message. Early human civilization was not evenly spread across the globe. For most of human history, the densest and most continuous civilizations were in the Middle East, Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Levant, and surrounding regions. These areas were the crossroads of the ancient world — where Africa, Asia, and Europe met, where trade routes passed, and where ideas could travel. Second, the Middle East was not “chosen” because it is spiritually superior, but because it was strategically central. A message revealed there could spread outward in multiple directions. China, america, and Australia were geographically isolated for most of history. Even if a prophet had appeared there, the message would have remained local and disconnected from the rest of humanity. Islam, however, was intended to become a global message, so its final articulation emerged in a place that connected continents, cultures, and empires. Third, the Qur’an is very clear that not all prophets are known to us. It explicitly states that many messengers were sent whose stories were not recorded or preserved. So the absence of named prophets from certain regions does not mean God ignored those people. It means their histories were either lost, oral, or never entered the written traditions that survived. Civilization determines record-keeping; revelation does not guarantee historical preservation. Fourth, human development itself was uneven. Regions like the Americas and Australia were populated much later and developed large civilizations far later than the Middle East or South Asia. Prophetic guidance appears when societies reach a stage where moral law, accountability, and social responsibility become meaningful. A prophet is not sent to teach people how to hunt or survive nature — but to correct injustice, power abuse, and moral decay in complex societies. Finally, Islam shifts the focus away from geography altogether. With the Qur’an, prophethood ends and the message becomes portable — carried by people, not by place. After that point, guidance spreads through human effort, translation, migration, and moral example. That is why Islam does not require a prophet in every later civilization; it requires human responsibility to convey the message. So it wasn’t about “Earth’s center” in a cosmic sense.It was about where humanity was socially, historically, and communicatively ready for guidance that could reach the world.