From: hra2@Lehigh.EDU (Hibatur Rahman Ahmad)
Newsgroups: soc.religion.islam
Subject: FOR PEOPLE WHO THINK (Part 5)
Date: 26 Aug 92 20:03:45 GMT


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The following article is taken from a booklet title "The Light of Revelation
-A Glimpse of The Meanings of The Final Divine Revelation To Humankind- The
Quran" published by Islamic Outreach-ABIM 3402 Jalan Ampang Hilir 2, 55000
Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA.  Tel: 6-03-457-4608  There is NO COPYRIGHT for this
booklet.  Any organisation or individual wishing to reproduce the booklet may
do so freely.  An acknowledgement would be appreciated.
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FOR PEOPLE WHO THINK (Part 5)

                    God's Prophets (Peace be upon all of them)

We sent a foretime Our Apostles with Clear Signs
and sent down with them the Book and the Balance,
of Right and Wrong,
that men may stand forth in justice.....
                                                    (Hadid 57: 25)

Verily We have sent thee in truth,
as a bearear of glad tidings,
and a Warner:
And there never was a people,
Without a Warner having lived among them.
                                                    (Fathir 36: 24)

Say ye: We believe in God,
and the revelation given to us
and to Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob and the tribes,
and that given to Moses and Jesus,
and that given to all Prophets from their Lord,
we make no difference between one and another of them
and we bow to God in Islam.
                                                    (Baqarah 2: 136)

It is He who has sent His Apostle with Guidance
and the Religion of Truth,
That he may proclaim it over all religion
Even though the Pagans may detest it.
                                                    (Saff 61: 9)

Say thou (Muhammad): "I am but a man like you.
It is inspired in me that your God is One God.
So stand true to Him and ask for His forgiveness."
And woe to those who join gods with God.
                                                    (Ha-Mim 41: 6)

Muhammad is not the father of any of your men,
but he is the Apostle of God, and the seal of the Prophets:
And God has full knowledge of all things.
                                                    (Ahzab 33: 40)

Anyone who obeys the Messenger has obeyed God...
                                                    (Nisaa 4: 80)

Say, (O Muhammad to mankind): If ye love God, follow me;
God will love you and forgive you your sins.
God is Forgiving, Merciful.
                                                    (Ali-Imran 3: 31)

    The message of all the prophets since the beginning of mankind was
submission to one God.  God gave his Message through more 124,000 Prophets sent
to all races and nations in this world.  However this message was distorted by
later generations.  At the time of the advent of Prophet Muhammad (p.b.u.h)
the entire world was steeped in darkness.  Beliefs in idolworship and in
multiplicity of other pagan rites had destroyed the then known civilazation.
Humanity was immersed in the worst from of tyranny and moral degradations.
Rulers and prophets became gods, female children were buried alive, slavery
was rampant, the masses indulged in immoralities - humanity was in despair
with no way out.

    In the midst of this degradation, Prophet Muhammad (p.b.u.h) was sent by
God to redeem humanity, to revive and reassert the divine truth.  Today 1000
million souls or one fifth of humanity have submitted to the one True God.
Are you one of them?

TO BE CONTINUED (God Willing)

***KNOW that Islam is a universal religion as a way of life.  It governs every
aspect of human life, from individual's behaviour to living in community, from
social and economic principles to political system, from government justice to
international relation, and above all, from relation between human being to
human being up to relation between human being and his creator, the One and
Only One God.

***KNOW that the term traditionalist, conservative, extrimist, fundamentalist,
radicals or similar labels DO NOT originate from Islam.  In Islam it is either
to be a Believer or a Non-Believer, either to be a True Believer or a Hypocrite,
either to practise Islam as a whole or leave it all.

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