Qur'anic Prophets (Essay Sample)

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Qur’anic Prophets
Islam refers to prophets as individuals who were conferred upon by God, special missions to guide people towards the right path of fulfilling God’s will. Islam requires that Muslims believed in the existence of prophets, who were given an obligation to believe in God. Islamic prophets preached the existence and presence of one God, avoidance of sin and idolatry, the worshipping of one God, the belief in the Judgment day or day of resurrection and life after death. Prophets in Islam are referred to as messengers in the sense they were sent by God at different times of Islamic history to diverse groups of people to preach different messages in accordance with the teachings of Islam. Prophets were individuals, who were chosen by God to deliver His message through their prophetic revelations. Belief in the prophets translates to the belief that they were sent by God to guide their lives in the present and in their afterlife, whose authenticity was aided by the miracles they performed. The significance of earlier prophets who came before Muhammad in Islam can be construed to represent an authenticity platform for the religion or a basis for the religion upon which the doctrine from the Quran can be established.
The Qur’anic understanding of prophets before Muhammad was that they formed part of the whole in the sense that they represented Islam at different times in the religion’s history with reference to different groups of people. Islam believes that Prophet Muhammad was the last messenger sent by God to deliver the Quran to his people, which was a culmination of all the previous prophets’ teachings. The message about the oneness of God in Islam fits in with the early prophets before Muhammad by virtue of the fact that the Quran states that earlier prophets were spreading the same message that the last prophet came to re-affirm and cement.
“Lo! We inspire thee (Muhammad) as We inspired Noah and the prophets after him, as We inspired Abraham and Ishmael and Isaac and Jacob and the tribes, and Jesus and Job and Jonah and Aaron and Solomon, and as we imparted unto David the Psalms” (Qur’an 4:165-165).
Verse 164 of the Qur’an states that Allah or God spoke directly to Musa (Moses) together with other messengers like Joseph, Zachariah, Elias, Elisha, Idris (Enoch), Dhul-Khifl (Ezekiel), and Dhun Nun (Jonah).
According to the Qur’an, all scriptures and/or teachings attributed to the early prophets before Muhammad are incorporated into its doctrinal context in accordance with Muhammad’s teachings.
“The messenger (Muhammad) believeth in that which hath been revealed unto him from his Lord and (so do) the believers. Each one beli...