Muhammad a Prophet For all Humanity
7. The Revolution of the Prophet
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of as gods. Divinity was even ascribed to those
mortals who stood out among their fellows. So it
was that, after a period of about 1000 years on earth,
people saw the end of the conceptual dominance of
monotheism, and their intellect became clouded
with polytheistic thought.
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It was after the decline of other initial, monotheistic
religion that God started sending prophets to the
world. These prophets, however, never achieved
enough popularity to eradicate polytheism and
reassert the dominance of monotheism. At that time
prophets came to every part of the inhabited
world— according to one
hadith
there were 124,000
of them—but each and every one of them was
scorned and laughed at.
When an individual rejects the truth, he or she
does so for a reason; they do so because there
is something, which occupies such an
important place in their lives that they cannot
forsake it, even for the truth. The Qur’an tells
us the nature of the attachment that alienates
individuals from the true message of the
prophets:
