Well, this is all a bit of a guddle really, as I have notes for three separate talks clipped together. I did think of trying to mash them all together, but it hardly seemed worth it - there's enough to give anyone interested a few things to think about.
ISLAMIC OUTREACH - Lesson
Belief in the Prophets /
Why Revelations? Content of Messages
First Clip
Nabi - Prophet
Bashir (bringer of good news)
Nadhir (warner)
Can be either but most are both
No people to whom a nabi has not been sent
124,000 ?
"We make no distinction between any of His Messengers"
Oneness of Prophets
Scholars consider these Named: Adam, Alyasa (Elisha), Ayyub (Job), Daud (David), Dhu-l-Khifl (Ezekiel), Hud, Ibrahim (Abraham), Idris (Enoch), Ilyas (Elias), Isa (Jesus), Ishaq (Isaac), Ismail (Ishmael), Luqman (Aesop?), Lut (Lot), Muhammad, Musa (Moses), Nuh (Noah), Salih, Shuayb (Jethro), Sulayman (Solomon), Yunus (Jonah), Uzair (Ezra), Yahya (John the Baptist), Yaqub (Jacob), Yusuf (Joseph).
Four Arab Prophets - Salih, Hud, Shuayb, Muhammad.
Rasul - Messenger, Envoy
New Religion or Category
Adam, Seth, Noah, Abraham, Ishmael, Moses, Lot, Salih, Hud, Shuayb, Jesus, Muhammad.
Not all named as such in the Qur'an
Qur'an calls some "the possessors of constancy"
Some "clear signs"
Also named and recognised by some: Azar (father of Abraham), Dhu'l-Qarnayn (Alexander?), Harun (Aaron), Maryam (Mary), Zacharias (father of John the Baptist).
Revelation
not personal inspiration
a requirement to pass on message to others
Second Clip
Recap God's use of Prophets
Inability of man to See & Distinguish
Prophets special people
see God as God and Satan as Satan
Charged to get Message across
Finality of Muhammad's message
The Seal of the Prophets
Five Pillars
Complete Qur'an
Nabi without & Rasul with - New Law and Book
Prophets indivisible
but some more excellent than others
Noah, (Hud, Salih), Abraham, (Lot),
Shuaib, Moses, Jesus, Muhammad.
Message
One God
Good Tidings & Warning
Help in this world (Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus)
Humanity of Prophets
Abraham & the birds
Muhammad & "He frowned"
Not:
a poet or soothsayer
possessed by evil spirit
sorcerer
forger of verses based on old scriptures
Agent of Revelation
not 'Angel' but 'Spirit'
(highest form of angelic nature)
The 'Amr' constellation in Qur'an
Spirit of Revelation
Furqan (clearly demarcating line)
Bayyinna (decisive proof - miraculous)
Third Clip
Why Revelations? Content of Messages
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