03-18-2006, 04:25 PM
Quote:Peace....
I've seen it stated by muslims and read in quran that muslims believe in all the prophets sent by God. However I notice mention is only made of Moses, Noah, Lot, Abraham, and Jesus Christ. There are many prophets between Abraham and the comming of Jesus Christ. Are the other prophets not known, not acknowledged or not worth mentioning? I'm interesting in knowing the muslim view of say Isaiah or Malachi, or even John the forerunner of Jesus Christ.
Shamms
Some are mentioned in the hadith.... Like john the baptiste... (called yahya) joseh (yahya) their names are quoted in arabic so some of them you may not recognise...
but in any event.... the amount of prophets that came are so numerous.. that mention of them would be too much.... the purpose of the quran is not to name prophets... but much more than that... the quran contains parables from the lives of the prophets.. in order to teach a lesson... if the stories of all these prophets were to be revealed... you can see how many of these lessons can be repeated many times over and become redundant....
based on that... it is not necessary to call the names of these ppl
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