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278 Jesus, Prophet of Islam

The prophets are brothers: they are all the same; there

is no distinction between them.

Sons of one father: they all declare one doctrine -La

ilahail'AJlah. There is no god but Allah, the One. Nothing

can be associated with Him in His Divinity.

Their mothers are different: each Prophet has been sent

to a particular people at a particular time. The Prophet

of the time has had revealed to him a Sunnah, or life­

form, a practice, a social pattern by which his commu­

nity should live. Whenever a new Prophet came to a

people, he brought a new form of this Sunnah to accord

with the new age. This is the Shari'ah or Road of the

Prophets. Thus, with the coming of our master Muham­

mad, may the peace and blessings of God be upon him,

the Divine Transaction is complete. Messengership is

sealed in the last revealed Book, the Glorious Qur'an.

Prophethood is sealed with the Shari'ah and the Sunnah

of the compassionate Prophet, Muhammad, may the

peace and blessings of God be upon him.

The science of worship, itself the means of approach to

God, is sealed in the Book (the Qur'an) and the Sunnah

of the first of the sons of Adam, peace be upon him.

The Way of Jesus, Prophet of Islam, is over. The Way of

Muhammad, Prophet of Islam, has begun.

This verse of the Qur'an, the last to be revealed, disdosed

the tremendous matter to be complete:

This day 1 haveperfected your wayoflifefor you, and

1 have completed My blessing upon you, and 1 have

chosen AL-IsLAM for you as your way of Iife,

(Qur'an 5: 3).

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