Senin, 19 Juli 2010

The Prophets and Holybooks

Prophets

What is Prophet? Prophet in Islam is Messenger. Allah send a prophet in every nations. Prophet received revelation from himself, while messenger for himself and his community. There are about 124.000 prophets and 25 of them are messengers (5 of them is ulul azmi). There is no female prophet.

In Islam altough has a lot of prophets but only one as a Muslim should believe, the name is Muhammad Prophet. As you know prophets is common human being, Muhammad too. As the last prophet in Islam but Muhammad is the one to make all other prophets mission is perfect.

Holybooks

-Shuhuf (Ibrahim/Abraham) 2000 SM
-Taurat (Musa/Moses) 1200 SM
-Zabur ( Daud/David) 1000 SM
-Injil (Isa/Yesus) 4M-30M
-Al Quran (Muhammad) 570-632 M

Each holbooks has similarities about divined religions, Revealed in Semitic languages, Oneness of God, Hav the same historical traditions, and the last is Have many similar techniques.

On Islam, Al Quran has characteristic Al Quran is revealed for all human beings, covers on all aspects and Allah will preserve the originality of Al Quran. The Qur'an is roughly the length of the Christian New Testament. It is divided into 114 chapters (sura) of varying length. The first chapter, known as 'The Opening' (al-Fatiha), is very short. It resembles a prayer and comprises seven verses (aya), including the opening invocation. It is the most recited chapter from the Al Quran, as Muslim recited it several times a day as part of their ritual prayer. The second chapter, called 'The Cow' (al-Baqara), is the longest in the Al Quranand comprises 286 verses. This chapter that follow generally become shorter and shorter up to the last. 'The People' (al-Anas) which is one of the shortest in the Al Quran.


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