07-02-2004, 08:33 AM
salaam alaykum...
dear bro. joshua (may god bless you)...
Actually, Allah did sent his messengers to all nation, but none of the teachings of these messengers are preserved, except Muhammad(pbuh). if you take it by logic, the Book given to Jesus(pbuh) which is the closest messenger to Muhammad(pbuh)'s time is not preserved in its original language itself, with lots of different versions. If some thing like that can happen to the message brought by Jesus(pbuh), we simply can understand what had happen to those messages brought by the messengers before him. plus, those messengers didn't receive the Book as David(pbuh), Moses(pbuh), Jesus(pbuh) and Muhammad(pbuh) did.
it is a matter of time the messages being distorted into something else. if Allah want to preserve the messages He revealed to every messenger, Adam(pbuh) alone is all it takes to give mankind the message of Islam.
researchers said that caveman didn't have religion because they didn't find the prooves that the caveman believe in god. but what kind of proof we're expecting from them? a book with religious teaching written in it? or a laser disc recording the religious details? their way of communication and sending information was not the same as us today, we cannot judge them by comparing to out time.
Wallahu'alam...