PROPHETHOOD
Q. The Qur-an says:
WA I(N)M-MIN UM-MATIN IL-LA KHALA
FIHA NAZIR
(And there is no community but a warner
has been sent down to it.)
On another place, it says:
WA LI-KUL-LI QAUMIN HAD
(And for every people there is [sent] a
guide.)
The verses imply that some messenger or
the other has been sent by Al-lah to every people or community. If so, were any
prophets sent in India also?
Yes, the foregoing verses do affirm that Al-lah
has sent some warner or guide to every people. It is therefore quite likely
that some prophets were sent down in India also.
Q. Can it be said that the hindu deities lie
Krishna and rama were also the prophets of Al-lah?
No. They cannot be said to be His
prophets. It is because prophethood was a special favour which Al-lah bestowed
upon his chosen servants. We cannot, therefore call any one a Prophet of Al-lah
until and unless we know it from the Shariah that Al-lah invested a particular
person with such a distinction. If, in the absence of any authority from
Shariah, we presume a non-prophet to be a Prophet of Al-lah simply because it
suits our whims, we shall have to render account before Al-lah for such a wrong
belief.
Let us understand like this: suppose we,
in our misconception, begin to presume that a certain person is the viceroy of
a king or his governor general, although he is not, we shall be adjudged guilty
by the empire concerned for having wrongfully invested a person with powers
that did not belong to him and for attributing wrong things to the king and his
government.
So, from amongst the ancient people, we
can believe only those personages as prophets of Al-lah whose prophethood is
affirmed by the Shariah and who have been mentioned as such by the Holy Qur-an
or the Hadith.
As regards religious divines of hindu and
others we can only say that if they were upright in their beliefs and conduct,
if their teachings did not go against the divine teachings and if they had also
been instruments of guidance to people, there are chances that they were chosen
prophets by Al-lah, but to insist that they were true prophets of Al-lah is to
assert things that have no substance and is mere speculation.
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