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The Honouring of Prophets in the Bible and the Quran

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For someone to be appointed as a spokesman for a country –no matter how small

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or even a company or another person,they have to be chosen with extreme care.

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Their conduct has to express the message that is to be conveyed

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But what about those chosen by God to send a message to his Creation –the Prophets.

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The Qur’an and the Bible that we have today are very different regarding this

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Noah in the Qur’an is an honoured prophet,and one who belonged to the few prophets of strong resolve

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He spent 950 years calling on his people to worship God alone 

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and abandon paganism and idolatry

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Then God saved him and those who believed with him in a ship 

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and destroyed the unbelievers who rejected his message by drowning

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And he is a believer,one of those who do good.

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And he didn’t ask for any financial recompense from his people

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for his mission to call them to the true faith.He only wanted his reward from God and none other

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However,in the Bible we have today

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Noah drinks wine,and gets drunk and naked!

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And curses his blameless grandson,making him the slave of his uncles for a crime he did not commit

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Let me ask you a question:

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Can you choose someone like that to work for your company?Or even to be your friend?

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The Quran tells us of the Prophet Lot,peace be upon him.He was the purest of his people

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and his purity was the source of their enmity to him

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However in the Bible we have today,he became drunk on wine 

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and committed adultery with his daughters conceiving two sons,Moab and Ammon.

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As for Moses,peace be upon him,he is repeatedly mentioned in the Quran.

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The Quran speaks of his mission,his faith,his life,and his patience with his people many times.

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He was honoured in that God spoke to him directly and blessed him and his brother Aaron with the prophethood,

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saving them and their people from Pharaoh,and giving them victory over him.

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The Quran tells us that the people of Moses,peace be upon him

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harmed him and falsely accused him of things.And God declared him innocent of their accusations 

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and he had a special place with God –whatever Moses asked for,God gave him

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But the Bible we have today presents Moses and his brother Aaron as traitors 

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who betrayed God and did not praise him among the people of Israel as He ordered them to

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It says that Moses was rude to God,

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speaking to Him in a way that no human should,let alone one of the most honoured of Prophets

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However,the Quran tells us about Aaron,

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peace be upon him,and his reaction to his people when they worshipped the Calf instead of God

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and how he rebuked them for committing this heinous act and upheld the Oneness of God.

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The Bible portrays Aaron himself as the maker of the Calf 

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who the Children of Israel worshipped,denying God

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How can a Prophet create a god?

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More importantly,how can an intelligent person believe that a prophet can lead people to unbelief?

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A prophet’s mission is certainly the opposite of that?

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The Prophet of God Jacob (Israel),

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is described in the Quran along with his father,the Prophet Isaac,and his grandfather,the Prophet Abraham (peace be upon them)

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as strong in worship and visionary in faith.

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God saved them,placing remembrance of the hereafter in their hearts,

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and they worked for it all the time.

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Faith and remembrance of God was their abiding characteristic.

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God made them personally a reminder of the hereafter 

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and those who remember God remember their good deeds.

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They are the purest of people in the eyes of God and they have every good characteristic and action.

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However,in the Bible,Jacob is not only one of the worst prophets 

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(This is a strange sentence but it works when talking about the prophets in the Bible)

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but one of the worst people as well.

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He schemed against his father Isaac and cheated him,stealing the blessing from his brother Esau.

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Do you accept that someone like this is one of God’s honoured prophets?

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Finally,the Bible mentions this strange story which speaks of wrestling between Jacob and the Lord.

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Jacob was about to win.

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I will leave you to judge for yourself

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The prophets David and Solomon,peace be upon them,

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and other prophets were also not spared such shameful stories from the Bible.

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And here we ask the question again 

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Are these acts mentioned in the Bible the acts of prophets of God who are the best of people.

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As for Muslims,respecting and loving the Prophets of God 

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and belief in their immunity from corruption is an article of their faith

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In the Quran we read what God says about the blessed prophets:

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“These were the people God guided,[Prophet],follow the guidance they received.

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Say,‘I ask no reward for it from you:it is a lesson for all people.’”(Livestock:90)