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Allah, to pray to Him and to comply with His commands. He also made
clear to them that otherwise they would be punished. In brief, they
warned the disbelievers and those who engaged in wicked deeds, and they
gave glad tidings to believers that they would be rewarded.
(The Garden
and the Fire will be dealt with extensively in the following sections.)
The
last prophet Allah sent to mankind was the Prophet Muhammad, may
Allah bless him and grant him peace. The Qur'an is the last revealed
Book.
The earlier revelations from Allah have lost their authenticity, since
ignorant people and those with bad intentions have incorporated their
own words and extra pieces into them. Therefore, their originals, the true
revelations that were initially sent to the peoples, did not survive to our
day. But Allah sent us the Qur'an, the Book that is impossible to alter.
The Prophet Muhammad, may Allah bless him and
grant him peace, and later Muslims preserved the Qur'an
very well. The Qur'an is so clear that everyone can
understand it. When we read the Qur'an, we can
immediately understand that it is the Speech of
Allah. The Qur'an, which has survived completely
intact, is under Allah's protection and it is the only
revealed Book for which people will be
