Is Belief In Muhammad ﷺ Necessary?
What is our goal ?? to reach at highest level of Taqwa!! right? Why would u need a divine Scripture to have highest level of Taqwa?? didn’t u read story of Luqman عليه السلام Quran is only here to solve the disputes among the people (see Quran 2:213)… and here u have many people all around world who don’t even care about this divine scripture.. even they do know they can’t produce something like it objectively . “so yeah Prophets have zero contribution in person’s heart to increase their taqwa” “You [Prophet] cannot guide everyone you love to the truth; it is God who guides whoever He will(according to his law): He knows best those who will follow guidance.” -Quran 28:56 and yeah i have question!!….. was prophet ﷺ sent by God to make people accept himself as Messenger of God? or people believed that indeed he is messenger of God because of Quran and his Seerah & sunnah and He introduced himself as Messenger?! here i have a hadith if u think above previous hadith had another context. THIS hadith have normal context like prophet is in day to day life in early prophethood period . read ‘Amr b. ‘Abasa Sulami reported: I adopted a friendly attitude (towards the Meccans and thus managed) to enter Mecca and go to him (the Holy Prophet) and I said to him: Who are you? He said: I am a Prophet (of Allah). I again said: Who is a Prophet? He said: (I am a Prophet in the sense that) I have been sent by Allah. I said: What is that which you have been sent with? He said: I have been sent to join ties of relationship (with kindness and affection), to break the Idols, and to proclaim the oneness of Allah (in a manner that) nothing is to be associated with Him. I said: Who is with you in this (in these beliefs and practices)? He said: A free man and a slave. He (the narrator) said: Abu Bakr and Bilal were there with him among those who had embraced Islam by that time. – Sahih al-Muslim : 832 1. so yeah i would like to repeat the question… was prophet ﷺ sent by God to make people accept himself as Messenger of God?? or people believed that indeed he is messenger of God because of Quran and his Seerah & sunnah and He introduced himself as Messenger?! 2. and if it’s true that prophet ﷺ was not sent by God to make people accept hiimself as Messenger of God, then why do today’s Islamic scholars make it obligatory to have believe in prophet Muhammad ﷺ as a minimum criteria to be recognized as Muslim?? Salam.