Mufti Menk – Who Were The Messengers
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The speaker discusses the messengers chosen by Allah for his message to the Muslims. They note that Islam has always favored sinful people over loved ones, and that Adam and Eve were not supposed to lead the communities. The speaker also talks about the lessons learned from the master's promise to forgive and mercy people, and how Islam has provided guidance for people to attain forgiveness after sinning.
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Today, I would like to go through some
of these, only for us to look at
what exactly happened. Number 1, who were these
messengers?
They were chosen by Allah. As Muslims, we
believe they were always the best of the
time.
Allah would never choose sinful people to lead
the communities.
Allah would never choose those who were not
loved by him
the most in order to be
carrying his message to the rest of us.
So Allah almighty
has chosen these people.
Allah.
A beautiful verse where Allah says, Allah has
selected, carefully chosen
his messengers from the angels and from the
people. So he's chosen them.
So Adam
when he actually
was created by Allah,
there is discussion as to whether he was
over and above being the first of the
species.
Was he actually
a messenger or a prophet?
If you look at it from the aspect
of him having taught his children what Allah
wanted from them, then indeed,
he did have that.
But remember right at the beginning,
there was something that happened in his life
that was
really
a great lesson for all of us. When
Allah told him not to do something, not
to eat from a particular tree, and that
being almost the only prohibition
for him, that's exactly what he ended up
doing. And from this what we learn is
as human beings, we may falter. We may
go exactly into what Allah told us not
to quickly come out of it.
So in Surah Al Araf,
verse number 23, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala speaks
about the words that were used by Adam
and his wife,
Eve or Hawa, may peace be on them
in order
to attain the forgiveness of Allah after they
had sinned.
The 2 of them said, oh, our Lord,
we have wronged ourselves.
And if you don't forgive us and have
mercy on us, we will be from among
the losers.
Allah says, we forgave him, And then Allah
appointed him on earth,
and Allah gave him children and asked him
to guide his children. And Allah promised we're
going to be sending messenger upon messenger.