Islam As It Is
Prophethood
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outstanding human being but to be the true Prophet
of God.
What is even more important is that the Prophet’s
success laid the ground work for the permanent
preservation of the religion he brought. The
triumph of his progress made it possible for his
followers to found an empire extending over a vast
area, and this in itself ensured the perpetuity of the
Prophet’s religion. It is truly remarkable that
fourteen hundred years have elapsed since the
coming of the Prophet without his religion having
been altered in the slightest way. It has been
preserved in all its purity, exactly in the form in
which the Prophet presented it to the world. In the
past, the need for a new Prophet had always arisen
because God’s religion, suffering from the vagaries
of time had been frequently distorted from its
original form. In ancient times, the nations who had
been entrusted with the guardianship of the Divine
Scriptures repeatedly betrayed that trust, allowing
the Book of God to be laid waste. New Prophets,
therefore, had to come to the world time and time
again in order to revivify the true spirit of religion
and to re-introduce its teachings in their true form
