Allah’s relation with His messengers is one of the most significant topics of Holy Quran and Islamic faith.

Holy Quran says: “Man is Allah’s vicegerent on earth”. Allah clearly commanded right at the outset
that if man acts in accordance with His injunctions, he will achieve peace and tranquility
in this world; eternal bliss and joy in the next world. However, if man indulges in
defiance and arrogance, his fate will be eternal sorrow and affliction in the hereafter.
·Allah sent His messengers to keep reminding man of the virtuous path and to resist the Satan’s
attempts of de-tracking the man from Allah and Islam.

Allah sent messengers from time to time to deliver His eternal message to them. All these
Messengers of Allah numbering about 1,24,000 were absolutely truthful, free of
any sins, possessed the highest order of intelligence, mental ability and alertness. They
delivered Allah’s message as it was, without any omission, concealment or alteration. All the Apostles of
Allah were totally ordinary mortals who lived a normal life i.e. they married, had children and, like
others, struggled to earn their living. Allah’s message was delivered by the apostles in the language
which the people of their civilization spoke. There was hardly any Prophet who was not scoffed at,
insulted, humiliated and tortured by the people. Even some of them were killed by pagans in earlier
times.

As Muslims, we have been commanded by Allah to believe in all of His Messengers, to

respect them and not to make any distinction amongst them. The Holy Quran says: “We make no
distinction…. Between one and another of His Messengers.” Allah has always helped His apostles and
punished and destroyed the wicked nonbelievers. The Holy Quran says: “So the earthquake seized them
(Samud), and they lay (dead), prostrate in their home.” Allah’s message to human since the inception of
this world has been the same i.e. they must accept that Allah is the Sole Creator, Sustainer and
Cherisher of this universe, He is One and Unique and that He alone is the Sovereign Lord of the Universe,
without any partners to share in His power and authority.

The first Prophet was Hazrat Adam and the last one is Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH). In
between comes Hazrat Ibrahim from whom emanated a long line of Prophets through his
two sons, Hazrat Ismail and Hazrat Ishaq. From Hazrat Ishaq came Hazrat Yaqoob,
Hazrat Yusuf, Hazrat Musa, Hazrat Daud, Hazrat Sulaiman, Hazrat Isa, while Hazrat
Ismail was the great great grandfather of Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH). Previously the
message of the Prophets was confined to particular people, area or time span while the
message of the Holy Prophet (PBUH) is universal, eternal, and perfect in all aspects and
for all of mankind till the Day of Judgment. It is also stipulated in this last message that after the Holy
Prophet (PBUH), no other prophet would now be sent at any time under any circumstances, for
whatever Allah wanted to convey to mankind in final shape, has already been communicated through
him: ”But he is the Messenger of Allah and the Seal of the Prophets.” All previous messages were
corrupted one way or the other while the last message from Allah i.e. the Holy Quran stands intact till
today, exactly the way it was revealed to the Holy Prophet (PBUH) more than fourteen centuries back in
Arabia.