BASIC BELIEFS OF ISLAM ۔PHROPHETS

 

Hello we have with us dr. Machado Hussein who was chief executive of the petty meat Institute here in Nottingham to talk with us about profits this is series of beliefs we're talking about God angels books messengers or prophets and then the last day and predestination so Musharraf help us understand prophets and messengers who are they well we believe that God wants to communicate he also talked to his people and the best way to communicate to people is to talk through selected and chosen sinless perfect human beings people who God specifically you know in many ways made for this purpose to embody his teachings and to be able to convey his beauty his greatness and his grandeur through these men really so they are these special people who convey and teaches about God really and you know in many ways if for us not just to speak about him but actually live lives which are models of how God wants us to live you mentioned that there are men what is the relationship between I think is an andalusian aibum Howsam or maybe only that mary was a prophetess well even it has been perhaps the only Muslim scholar who has this idea that there is a women can also be prophet but other other than that the consensus is prophets have always been men really and that is not to in any form or shape to show that women are less than men at all this is not you know so the role of the messenger prophet is to bring the revelation and to set an example or am i confusing messengers and it's here okay well we you know there is the nabhi and there is the Rasul and the distinction is very simple that the nabhi is the Prophet who receives the revelation without a book and the idea is that he would be most likely reinvigorating re presenting and reviving the teachings of a previous prophet in a we believe for example John the Baptist was one of the newbies you know who revived the teachings of the previous prophets meaning of Moses and of course Zachariah who was his father so he was a he was a prophet but the rasool is the or the messenger is the one who also receives revelation in the form of a book really so that's edition so the prophet Horus receives a book in form of a book a revelation form of a book is the rasul where is the nubbies the one who doesn't receive the book so how many prophets have there been and and you know we see names of prophets and messengers in the court on are all the messengers and prophets that we know about in the quran is that the extent of it or is there are there more how does that work well i mean if you go back to the idea of revelation and God communicating to his humanity then of course you know we would need far more profits than that I mentioned in the Quran the Quran only talks about mentions by name but the idea is that there are possibly hundreds of thousands of prophets there is one week Hadees which I see at this point to about hundred and twenty four thousand but in in a Kai the Nestle we read that we you should never fix a number because we don't know the exact number really but we believe that God sent prophets to every corner and nuke of this earth no people have been deprived of a prophet because God wanted to communicate to everybody in fact this is why I think you know some Muslim scholars actually believe that Confucius Tao Buddha and many of the Hindu gods might have actually been prophets you know whose teachings then would have been perhaps interpolated changed and and and and you know grossly changed but what we believe that you know God hasn't been sending prophets all over the world and so that would be hundreds of thousands okay thank you what is it that Muslims believe makes the Prophet Muhammad special and the final prophet well we believe that he's the special in the sense that he's the last prophet and by being the last means that hizmet he was to convey the his religion was to be the universal his revelation is to be universal for the whole globe for all humanity and and it would again its culmination of what the previous prophets have been teaching so it's the culmination it's a final stage and and in a way the maturation you can say of the divine revelations when humanity had had had reached its maturity and was actually at at a very special juncture in its history you know so and so that is where I think the Prophet comes and becomes very special that this is at a at a time when there is a big change in humanity almost becoming global whereas before that it was very tribal very parochial and now Muhammad was to be a universal a global prophet because human history had reached a point where it was now and and and and it did become global within a well within less than a century Islam had spread in the West - as far as Spain and in the East as far as China last question so I think you said the prophets are sinless but this mean that the Prophet Muhammad didn't make any mistakes or or you know how far is this go well sinless means that they do not intentionally disobey God so they would never intentionally disobey God occasional slips have happened but they are only slips and therefore they are because they're not intentional therefore they don't really matter and no God is very forgiving overlooks the mistakes but as far as the prophets are concerned they are masoom which means that they actually are protected that's the religion meaning of it they are actually protected from falling into becoming egotistical falling into the trap of the Satan falling into in losing their temper so that they are protected God protects them because of their strong character actually he has given them a perfect character Thank You Machado for helping us understand prophets and messengers thank you for being with us you NOW