Muhammad a Prophet For all Humanity
1. From Adam to the Messiah
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David’s son, and succeeded to his father’s throne.
As for Joseph, he was endowed by God with the
ability to interpret dreams and the King of Egypt,
impressed by his ability, went so far as to entrust
the affairs of state to him. But the King still
remained head of state and he and his subjects
continued to adhere to their pagan religion.
This hostile treatment meted out to the prophets
throughout the ages, deprived people of true
guidance and, what was even more serious, made
the preservation of the scriptures and teachings of
the prophets impossible. Only a prophet’s followers
can preserve his teachings after him; but the
prophets either had no followers, or so few as to be
unable to counter the challenges of their society to
the preservation of the Holy Scriptures.
The knowledge of God is eternal. He sees the future
just as He does the past. He was aware, before the
sending of the prophets, that this would be the fate
of the human race. So He had decreed that He
would remedy this situation at the end of the
prophetic era by sending His own special envoy to
the world: a prophet whose task would be not only
