The Logic Of Selecting Prophets: Innate Purity Vs. The Human Growth Mindset
I understand your point but i f the Qur’an and Hadith are silent on the mechanism, how should a believer approach such questions? Should we leave them unanswered, or is it acceptable to form a reasoned understanding? If you could share your personal scholarly opinion or framework on this, it would really help clarify my confusion. Secondly, Prophets are human beings with human traits, having the best character but not being infallible. What still confuses me is this: in moments of extreme hardship, Prophets were often helped directly by Allah in extraordinary ways. I understand that they carried a very heavy responsibility, but doesn’t this still look a bit unfair? If Prophets are meant to be guides and role models for humans, shouldn’t their journey reflect a more humanly relatable process? For example, Allah’s direct intervention in the case of Prophet Yunus — a whale swallowing him and then releasing him — feels very unnatural from a human experience point of view. Whales do not normally allow humans to survive inside them. Compare this with the trial of Prophet Ayyub, which feels much closer to ordinary human suffering and endurance. Similarly, when Prophets made mistakes, Allah often corrected them directly through revelation. Shouldn’t moral growth ideally occur through natural consequences — facing the results of a mistake, reflecting on it, and then changing course — the way it happens with ordinary humans? I’m not questioning Prophethood or divine wisdom, but I struggle to understand how this extraordinary divine assistance aligns with the idea of Prophets being human role models. I’d appreciate your perspective on how to reconcile this.