Revelation and Prophethood presentation for UNGS 2030

1. AFIFAH NABILAH BINTI MOHAMAD SAFEI
BAI JING
LAN ZHENGYAN
NOR AINI BINTI SAPANI
YOMNA KHALED ELDEMERY

2.  Wahy(‘Revelation’) :Khafa(secrecy) and
Su’rah( quickness)
 Channels: Inspiration, from behind a veil and
by sending an angel, however it has never
been incarnation.
 Prophetic experience: to teach and guide the
ordinary people to get them close to Allah
 Prophecy is the highest position any human
being can reach in the Islamic worldview of
status

3.  Six essential characteristic of Prophethood:
Truthfulness, Trustworthiness,
Communication of God’s Command,
Intelligence, Infallibility and Lack of any
Mental or Physical Defect
 In Islam, the messengers of Allah are trained
to be models for integrity, dignity and
decorum; one who is charged to bring the
news of and from the Ghayb (unseen), the
content of which may relate to the past,
present or future.

4.  The phenomenon of miracles is the central to
the concept of prophethood which refers to
the proved of the truthfulness of the person
who said he was a prophet.
 The miracle is a clear and manifest proof of
the relationship of the prophet with the
source of revelation where the Quran
describes the miracles of many of the
prophets.
 The final miracle is the immortal miracle (al-
Quran) which is different from others book
that brought by early prophets

5.  What human reason can generally
discover/solve.
 The function of revelation is to confirm rational
dictates where the revelation and reason cannot
contradict to each other.
 What human reason can discover/solve but
may not.
 revelation came to guide humans and show them
the right course of action through the example of
prophets’ behavior.
 What falls beyond the human rational ambit
 the revelation is needed to inform and provide
the ultimate answers.

6.  To inform about the nature of God, His
attributes, His acts of creation and the shape of
things to come at the end of the days.
 To convey to human beings divine knowledge,
free of all forms of illusion and errors.
 rescue human being from shameful forms of
worship
 to guide people to the right path as well as
to bring them happiness, salvation, goodness
and prosperity.

7.  Adam (AS) was the first man on Earth, and
also the first Prophet of God (SWT).
 His descendants either followed his path, the
right path (Islam), or swayed from their
father’s teachings.
 Why did some of Adam (AS)’s descendants sway
from their father’s teachings? They did so because
they either forgot or were overwhelmed with
superstitions, myths, and all types of false notions.
 God (SWT) raised prophets within every
nation to remind the people that there is no
God but Allah (SWT) and to teach them the
right religion, Islam.

8.  Not All prophets are mentioned in the holy
Qura’an.
 Not all prophets are equal as mentioned in the
Qura’an: “We have made some messengers
more excellent than others” (2:253).
 Despite the prophets’ relative differences in
their lives, yet their messages were the same
in their fundamentals. For example:
 Prophet Lut (AS) combated the perverse acts of
sodomy of his nation.
 Prophet Shu’ayb (AS) fought the economic and social
corruption on the people of Madyan.
 Prophet Musa (AS) fought the socio-political corruption
and infanticide of Fira’wn and his minions.

9.  He is the last prophet and messenger of God.
 The revelation of the Qura’an began to come
to him on a lonely and meditative night in the
cave of Hira’ on Jabal Al-Nur (The Mount of
Light) in Mekkah.
 The revelation to Prophet Muhammad
continued for about 23 years.

10. With the closure of the office of
prophethood, divine revelation to
mankind came to an end.
 Why did the divine revelation to mankind come
to an end with the closure of the office of
prophethood?
 because to be a messenger of the divine revelation
(rasul), one has to be a prophet first, as the divine
revelation is not communicable to any ordinary man.
 Some people claimed that prophethood and
continuous revelation are lasting until the
last day as Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian
(1835-1908) and Ayah Pin (b.1940). This claim
is heretical, untenable and offcourse.

11.  The perfection of Islam and the completion
of prophethood and revelation is untenable
to argue.
 The continuous existence of the Qura’an in
its original form, besides the authentic
prophetic hadith, assures continuous divine
providence to humanity as Prophet
Muhammad (PBUH) is reported to have said
“There are two things by which—if your
adhere to both of them—you will never go
astray: the book of God and the Sunnah of
His prophet”

12.  Prophets were appointed only to fulfill a special need.
Abul A’la Mawdudi (1903-1979) identifies four conditions
under which the prophets have been sent to the world.
 Firstly, there was need for a prophet to be sent unto a
certain nation to which no prophet had been sent before
and no message brought by the prophet of another nation
could have reached those people. None of the needs
mentioned above remains to be fulfilled after the advent
of Prophet Muhammad.
 Secondly, there was a need to appoint a prophet because
the message of an earlier prophet had been forgotten by
the people, or the teachings of the former prophets had
been corrupted and hence it had become impossible to
follow the message brought by that prophet.

13.  Thirdly, the people had not received the
complete mandate of Allah (S.W.T)
through a former prophet; hence
succeeding prophets were sent to fulfill
the task of completing the religion of
Allah (S.W.T).
 Fourthly, there was need for a second
prophet to share the responsibility of
office with the first prophet.
To conclude, revelation in Islam is a
blessing and mercy to humankind. Its
content is not irrational.