Books & Messengers of Allah


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MESSENGERS OF ALLAH

Risalah is the channel of communication between Allah and mankind. Allah, in His infinite mercy, has provided man with guidance to follow the right course and so make this world a happy and peaceful place to live in. There will be a great reward in the life after death for those who follow this guidance.

Since the beginning of the Creation, Allah has sent His guidance for mankind through His selected people. These chosen people are called prophets or messengers. They asked the people of their time to obey and worship Allah alone. They taught, guided and trained the people to follow the way of Allah.

Prophets and messengers were human beings. We should never refer to them as the sons of Allah. Allah is One and He has no partner or son. As Muslims, we must believe in all the prophets and messengers (2:285). Allah's guidance to mankind, which began with Adam (pbuh), was completed with Muhammad (pbuh). The Qur'an mentions only twenty-five of the most prominent prophets by name.

Qur'anic name	Biblical name
Adam	Adam
Idris	Enoch
Nuh	Noah
Hud	-----
Salih	Salih
Ibrahim	Abraham
Isma'il	Ishmael
Ishaq	Isaac
Lut	Lot
Ya'qub	Jacob
Yusuf	Joseph
Shu'aib	-----
Ayyub	Job
Musa	Moses
Harun	Aaron
Dhu'l-kifl	Ezekiel
Dawud	David
Sulaiman	Solomon
Ilias	Elias
Al-Yasa'	Elisha
Yunus	Jonah
Zakariyya	Zechariah
Yahya	John
'Isa	Jesus
Muhammad	-----

BOOKS OF ALLAH

Allah's greatest favor to mankind is His guidance contained in the books of revelation. The pure, perfect and most useful knowledge comes only from Allah, the Wisest and the Greatest (2:146-147, 4:163, 53:1-6).

A Muslim believes in all the revealed books which are mentioned in the Qur'an. They are : the Tawrat (Torah) of Musa (Moses), the Zabur (Psalms) of Dawud (David), the Injil (Gospel) of Isa (Jesus) and the Qur'an revealed to Muhammad (peace be upon him). The Qur'an also mentions Suhuf-i-Ibrahim (Scrolls of Abraham).

Of the divine books, only the Qur'an exists in it's original form, unchanged and unmixed. The Qur'an contains Allah's guidance for mankind in it's original language, unchanged and undistorted. It restates for mankind the unambiguous message of Allah, which the followers of earlier Prophets have lost. The message of the Qur'an is valid for all times and conditions.

-- from : Islam : Beliefs and Teachings, 4th edition, by Ghulam Sarwar.