Was David/Hazrat Daud (a.s) Nabi Or A Rasul?
There were three stages in Allah’s scheme of Prophethood : 1 ) Separate Rasul in every nation. 2 ) Whole Bani-Israel were given rank of ‘ Shahdah ‘ which sort of gave rank of rasalat to the whole nation where whole nation was required to do itmam-e-hujjat on the rest of the nations. And among them, two Rasuls were sent to do itmam-e-hujjat on them, when needed, once at the start with Moses (sws) and once at the end with Jesus (sws). In between there were many prophets (nabi). 3 ) The rank of ‘ Shahdah ‘ was given to Bani-Ismael with last Rasul Prophet Muhammad (sws) Establishing Sahahdah on Bani-Ismael and Bani-Ismael establishing Shahdah on the rest of the world. Please refer to the following Article for further details : Discussion 58725 • Reply 58783 Please also refer to the following detailed lectures to understand this concept in further depth: Discussion 4625 • Reply 17715 Summarized Video : Discussion 4625 • Reply 22688 Difference between Nabi and Rasul : Discussion 37972 • Reply 37976