Believe in prophets:
Belief in certain prophets who God chose to relay His message to humans is a required article of Islamic
faith.
God conveys His message and relates His will through human prophets. They form a link between the
earthly beings and the heavens, in the sense that God has picked them to deliver His message to human
beings. There are no other channels to receive divine communications. It is the system of
communication between the Creator and the created.
To have faith in the prophets (or messengers) is to firmly believe that God chose morally upright men to
bear His message and pass it to humanity. Blessed were those who followed them, and wretched were
those who refused to obey. They faithfully delivered the message, without hiding, altering, or corrupting
it. Rejecting a prophet is rejecting the One who sent him, and disobeying a prophet is disobeying the
One who commanded to obey him
Muslims believe in those prophets mentioned by name in Islamic sources, such as Adam, Noah,
Abraham, Isaac, Ishmael, David, Solomon, Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad, may the mercy and blessings
of God be upon him, to name a few. A general belief is held in those not mentioned by name, as God
says: “And, indeed We have sent prophets before you (O Muhammad), of some of them We have
related to you their story, and of some We have not related to you their story...” (Quran 40:78) Muslims
firmly believe the final prophet was the Prophet of Islam, Muhammad, and there will be no prophet or
messenger after him.
Believe in all prophets from Adam to the Holy Prophet Muhammad is one of the articles of faith and for
this reason the ‘Iman-i-Mufassal’ states:
“I believe in God, in his angels, in his prophets, in the last day and in the fact that everything good or bad
is decided to God Almighty and in the life after death”
Islam teaches that God has sent many prophets throughout history; 25 of them are mentioned by name
in the Qur’an, going right back to the creation of the world. Islam teaches that, over the centuries, the
messages from these prophets have either been lost or become corrupted, so there was a need for a
final revelation. Muhammad is known as the Seal of the Prophets, because his revelation of the Qur’an
was God’s final and absolute word. Muslim tradition says that, in total, there have been around 124,000
prophets. In Islam the major prophets (apart from Muhammad) are: Adam, Ibrahim, Musa, Dawud, and
Isa.
God sent to every nation a prophet, mostly from amongst them, to call them to worship God alone and
to shun false gods.