{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/pro/intro.htm","path":"isl/pro/intro.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pro/intro.htm","text":"And prays on the most righteous of His creation, Muhammad and his Household\nand his mates the honourable and guided\n(It is)\nAbout what concerns a bunch of prophets, and viceroys, in some of their\nown matters\n(Know)\nthat our believe in prophets, and their viceroys and the Angels (PUT),\nthey are infallible and purified from any impurities and they don't guilt\neither a big one or a small one, and never refuse the commandments of God\nand do whatever they are commanded with, and whoever refuse the idea of\ntheir infallibility in any situation then he did miss them.\nAnd our believe in them is that they are described with completeness\nof wisdom and honour and patience and bravery and so on and never described\nwith less aspects in any of their matters.\nThen, the prophets and viceroys and the purified Imams and the like\nbefore them (PUT), it is doubtless that their times are busy with God and\ntheir hearts are full of Him and their minds are connected to the heavens\nworld and always watching for God, for he said (The prophet PUH): worship\nGod as you see Him, so if you don't see Him, He sees you. So, they are\nalways watching, attending toward Him, the Exalted, with their total.\nWhatever is apparent in their prays (psalms) and their speeches and\ntheir books and the other of their sayings about falling in sin it is just\nto behave humbly for God and it includes the maximum thankfulness for Him,\nthe Exalted. It is mentioned about our prophet (PUH) that he used to exhaust\nhimself in worshipping, so one of his wives asked him: didn't God forgive\nyou for whatever was made and whatever will be from your sins? So he said\nto her: Yes, but shouldn't I be a thankful slave? Until The Holy called\nhim by His call \"Ta. Ha. We have not revealed unto thee (Muhammad) this\nQur'an that thou shouldst be distressed\"(Ta Ha:1-2) meaning not to exhaust\nyourself and spend the maximum of your power in worshipping.\nIn it also there is a teaching for people and directing them towards\nHim, the Exalted, and to take people away from pride and preventing the\nworshipping and praying, and to be humble for Him, the Exalted. How shall\nwe consider whatever comes from them (the prophets PUT) from deeds and\nsayings what is apparent to be a sin that is indeed a sin towards God,\nthe Exalted? God forbid! And they are more honourable and faithful than\nthat level to be blamed for a sin.\nAren't they the commanders by God over the creatures and His loyals\nfor His laws and His religion and the callers to obey Him, and God put\nthem for this purpose, so they are the tongue of God that speaks to His\nslaves and Its translator to His creation. So, how come they do a sin and\nhow come they become like normal people and not destinctive from them,\nand they are the ones who take care of His commandments to His creation,\nand is it rightful by logic for them to be loyals for God over His creation\nand someone would say to them \"Enjoin ye righteousness upon mankind while\nye yourselves forget\"(Al-Baqarah: 44) Are they mentioned with sin?\nIt is the reason to let people go away from them. Doesn't the sinner\nget thrown by stones if he tried to forbid people of the sins he did himself,\nor gets his head in the sand and told to him: discipline yourself and your\npeople before you try to discipline others? So, how come they can be loyals\nto God and they are polluted with sins and people should have gone away\nfrom them and deny their deeds?\nDon't people understand the claim of sins to the saints of God (apostles\nof God, faithful people), don't they stop? Was God unable to Make infallible\npeople and destinctive from others to take care of His laws? No, and God\nforbid! But He did not Send any messenger and Made a viceroy after him\nexcept he was purified and infallible and without any sins and mistakes\nor impurity.\nSo, how do we consider anything done by them as a guilt and it is a\nsin and that their humilating for themselves for God and sanctifying Him\nis because that they are like all creatures and their Lord did not Make\nthem special or Care much about them. Look with your heart to some of the\nslaves in this life whenever they refuse the commands of their masters\nand their masters heard about that, won't they be blamed by people and\ndeserved for punishment as they think. So what do you think of the Lord\nof lords and the King of kings that nothing can be hidden from Him from\nhis kingdom on earth or in heavens, and for this he pointed out (PUH) [maybe\n'Ali ben Abi T\u00e2lib is meant here] : the good deeds of the faithful\nare the sins of the close relative (?).\nSome said: it might be said that doing something undesirable and leaving\nthe desirable deed and do some of the allowed things might look like in\nthe eyes of the infallible persons like prophets and saints (viceroys)\nthat they are sins so they sanctify God (asking for forgiveness) and if\nthey did it again they become more sad for it and have great sadness in\ntheir holy souls. Look with the eye of your heart to the psalms (prays)\nof the Prince of Believers (PUH) and the psalms (prays) of Al-Imam Al-Sajj\u00e2d\nZain Al-'\u00e2bideen[i.e. 'Ali ben Al-Husain ben 'Ali ben Abi T\u00e2lib\nPUH] in Al-Saheefah Al-Sajj\u00e2diyah [it is a name of a book that contains\nprays and psalms of the Imam] and his psalm that mentioned by Abi Hamzah\nAl-\u00deom\u00e2ly and to his boredom in his prays and the hard sadness\nover him and the great sorrow of him for what he did beside his Lord and\nothers than him from his fathers and children and how great is their humilation\nand their perishableness in the Self of God for they had the deep view\ninto His might and His power and pride and they know very well how great\nHe is and how gracious He is. So, for this, most of their deeds in their\nworshipping and prayers were for someone that was sure of the torture and\npunishment. As if he commited every crime and done the great sins.\nFrom this concept was the mistake of our father Adam (PUH) where the\nfobid of eating from the tree inside paradise was only for honourable purposes\nand not a strict forbid as for a sin. As it is mentioned and approved in\nbooks made for this subject (the infallibility of prophets) by 'Alam Al-Huda\nAl-Sayid Al-Mortadh\u00e2 and others, check out. And God forbid that prophets\nand the messengers and the saints (viceroys) and the Arch-Angels may commit\nany sin and they are the ones that were assigned by God to take care of\nHis religion and the callers and the ones that take care of His slaves\nand His rulers over His creations.\nThen if we did accept that they do sins and guilt so then we don't\nmind them to do the great sins for which punishments must be applied without\nany difference. So who will do the punishment of them? Only the one that\ntakes care of religion would do the punishment, so would he do it over\nhimself? Or someone else would do it over him by an order from him? (Answer\nme may God have mercy upon you, isn't that one who claims this shy of God\nfor this?). Or maybe the one who claims this have some sickness in his\nsoul to let other wear this dress [meaning infallibility] and let others\ntake their places instead (places of prophets), Those who do wrong will\ncome to know by what a (great) reverse they will be overturned! And your\nLord is not in the least unjust for the slaves.\nThen do not forget that all the prophets and saints (viceroys) had\nbeen oppressed and hurt and no one answered their calls except few from\ntheir nations (Few of My bondmen are thankful) (Saba': 13)\nThen what does it mean God's saying \"Lo! We verily do help Our messengers,\nand those who believe, in the life of the world and on the day when the\nwitnesses arise\"(Al-Mu'min, Gh\u00e2fir: 51)? Al-Im\u00e2m Al-S\u00e2diq\n(PUH) was asked about the meaning of this holy phrase and he answered:\nthis is, and I swear by God, in the day of coming back, didn't you know\nthat lot of the prophets of God did not get a victory in life and the viceroys\nafter them got killed and never helped in life, but they will gain victory\nin the day of coming back before the doomsday. And the witnesses are the\nIm\u00e2ms (PUT).\nThe tidings coming from the Holy Household for this subject are a lot\nand in brief it points out that the return of the prophets to the life\nafter death and before the doomsday is something essential and no way out\nof it to get revenge from their enemies that wronged them and hurt them\nand fought them and didn't believe in them and set wars against them and\ntook their rights from them: but when that is going to happen? It would\nbe at the day when the witnesses arise and they are the purified Im\u00e2ms\nfrom the Household of Muhammad (PUH) and that is when the \"awaited\" appears,\nthe ruler of the current time that we are in and he is the Im\u00e2m that\nhis name is the same as the messenger of God (PUH) and his surname is the\nsame as well and he is the son of Al-Hasan ben 'Ali ben Muhammad ben 'Ali\nben Musa ben Ja'far ben Muhammad ben 'Ali ben Al-Husain ben 'Ali ben Abi\nT\u00e2lib (PUT) (the one born in year 256 Hejira) in S\u00e2marra' in\nIraq.\nAl-Sayid Al-Jaz\u00e2'iri said in his tales:\nThe meaning of the messengers in the holy phrase \"Lo! We verily do\nhelp Our messengers\" is the prophets. The apparent from this Holy Speech\nand whatever comes in its meaning is a sign that all the prophets will\ncome back to life in the small doomsday and God will give them victory\nby power and Angels over their enemies and the enemies of the Household\nof Muhammad (PUH), and God will give life again to their nations that hurt\nthem and the bad ones from Umayyads [Bani Umayya or the Children of Umayya,\nwho had a kingdom in Syria and the surroundings, they were usually marked\nwith aggressive nature and even killed the grandson of the prophet, but\nstill some people deny this although it is a well known fact in history!]\nand whoever accepted their deeds from their children and others. Also God\nwill give life to whoever had a pure faith from the nations to let them\nwin the rewards of victory and fights and live in the kingdom of Muhammad's\nHousehold (PUH). [here comes a holy phrase but I couldn't locate it in\nQuran, maybe the writer didn't memorize it so well!]\nThen all the prophets since Adam (PUH) until their end and the master\nof messengers Muhammad the Chosen (PUH), and they count for one hundred\nthousands and twenty four thousands prophets and one hundred and twenty\nfour thousands viceroys, for every prophet has a viceroy and their masters\nare five upon which life went around and they are the owners of laws and\nwhoever came with repeated laws they were copied from the previous and\nthey are Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus and Muhammad and they are the \"prophets\nof constancy\", may peace be upon them all. This is what was pointed out\nby tidings and what was said by our scholars and as said by Al-Sayed Al-Jaz\u00e2'iri\nand whatever points the opposite of that it would be carried by self trial\nfor interpretation. About the messengers, as mentioned by the prophet (PUH)\nand the sure paths that they were (three hundreds and thirteen) messengers..etc\nand it is probable also that the books are one hundred and four books,\nand twenty one books were revealed on Adam (PUH).\nIt is mentioned also that it was revealed on Seth the gift of God (PUH),\nby God, fifty books and on Enoch (PUH) thirty books, and on Abraham twenty\nbooks, and Revealed (God) Torah, Bible, Psalms and Quran and this speech\nbeen repeated many times so no doubt about its contents. And they were\ncalled the \"ones of constancy\", and they are the five masters but because\nthey were sent to the east and west and to people and Djinns and this meaning\nis mentioned in lot of tidings and mentioned by lot of Muslims scholars,\nby Ibn 'Abb\u00e2s and Qot\u00e2dah.\nAnd they say that they were called \"ones of constancy\" because they\nwere the first to believe in God in the world of atoms and believed in\nevery prophet that would come before or after them and decided to have\npatience inspite of calling them liars and being hurt. And said also that\nthey were called like that because they were ones of laws and regulations\nso that every prophet that came after Noah (PUH) was on his (Noah's) laws\nand path and a follower to his books until the time of Abraham (PUH) and\nthen until the time of Moses the son of Amram (PUH) then until the time\nof Jesus the son of Mary (PUH) and then until the time of Muhammad (PUH).\nThen the difference between the messenger and the prophet is that the\nmessenger is the one that gets inspiration from God the Exalted by a message\nor a book or allowances and non-allowances and so on, and so he is a messenger\nfrom God to the ones who are sent to from His slaves and creation. The\nmessenger could be non-human but it may be an Angel like Gabriel and Azrael\nand others (PUT). Or it may be a bird like the hoopoe of Solomon the son\nof David (PUH) and so on either from God or from the creature as it appears.\nAnd the prophet is the one that God inspires and Guides him and whatever\nGod wants from him flows in his heart without any doubt or imagination\nand he listens to the sound of Angels in his dreams but he can't see them,\nand the messenger also can dream about Angels and listens to them and also\nsee them as we see each other. But the viceroy that is appointed from God\nto take care of matters after the messenger can hear the Angels but can't\nsee them. It is mentioned in Al-Saheeh [seems a book name] from Al-Ahwal\nsaid: I heard Zor\u00e2rah ben A'yon asking Ab\u00e2 Ja'far Al-B\u00e2qir\n(PUH) so he said to him: tell me about the messenger and the prophet and\nthe speaker. So he said in his answer: the messenger is the one that Gabriel\n(PUH) come to him so he can talk to him and see, and the prophet is the\none that see in his dreams as it was for Abraham (PUH) and as the prophet\nof God (Muhammad PUH) did see the reasons of prophecy before getting inspired\nuntil Gabriel (PUH) did come to him from God with the message and and when\nMuhammad (PUH) got the prophecy and the message from God, Gabriel (PUH)\nused to come to him and talk to him about it, and the speaker is the one\nthat speaks and listens but do not see in his dreams nor in his awakeness.\nWhat is understood from the trusted speeches that one person can have\nthe prophecy and the message and the imamship [imam = viceroy] like our\nprophet Muhammad (PUH) and Abraham (PUH) and others than them, and Abraham\nwas a prophet and not a viceroy until God said to him \"Lo! I have appointed\nthee a leader for mankind. (Abraham) said: And of my offspring (will there\nbe leaders) ? He said: My covenant includeth not wrong-doers\" (Al-Baqarah:\n124) and it is that who ever is wrong and worshipping idols will not get\nthe covenant of God so won't be a leader (imam) taking care of matters\nand a viceroy for the messenger for his nation and whoever the messenger\nwas sent to, and so he won't be appointed by God for this purpose to save\nthe religion and the laws after the messenger is lost, so he won't be good\nfor imamship (caliphate) after him (the messenger) and doing the things\nafter him except these who are purified from a pure descendants. Because\nimamship is the general leadership over all the creations from human beings\nand Djinns and it is not to be except from God, the Exalted, and by His\ncommandments, and He supported the imam with miracles and virtues and he\nmust be the most intellegent among people and the most brave and the most\nfaithful one and the most eloquent the knows the most about everything\nand about everything that the creation needs from living purposes and have\nthe knowledge of every tongue and language and can speak it better than\nits natives even. There are other stuff concerning the imamship that the\nhuman brain can't take nor bear but only the special of them, so imamship\nis better than prophecy and more honourable and higher with no doubt.\nThen our book that is between your hands, is to obtain some of the\nconditions of prophets and messengers that were mentioned in Quran by names\nor by some of their characteristics, and Quran may point to someone by\nhis character only and the Muhammedan laws (tales) mention him by name\nand person. We may mention a lot of them that Quran did not mention but\nthe tales come to mention them where Quran did not mention of prophets\nexcept few of them that do not exceed forty almost. Then the dependance\nin obtaining their conditions was on the Muhammedan tales that were reached\nby the trusted persons who interpreted it and by the tidings from the Household\nof Muhammad (PUT) that were taken from the trusted books and persons, with\na notification of what was taken from the Torah and the Bible.\nLot of people wrote about this subject but it is a great sorrow that\nI did not see any of such writings that would satisfy, but it was the opposite.\nLot of them mixed things together and lost the truth and deformed the beauty\nof such thing and so made others be away from catching some of its seas.\nAnd no one of its subjects' matters would be without a collection of the\nthin and the fat and edited with weird stuff and picked from it several\nstraws or written with ill hand, so it looks with an ill eye and ill heart\ninclined away from the path of truth.\nSo there were no subject that keeps up its own matters or collects\nits own requirements. But this one between your hands (and thanks be to\nGod, for Him be the pretty praises) we were lucky to get it organized and\ncheck all of its contents to its certain limits except few which, for necessity,\nhad to be planted other than its position, and God is the Guider to the\npath of truth.","title":"The Prophets, Their Lives and Their Stories: Introduction...","type":"page"}