Islam is the religion of Allah with which He sent all his Prophets and Messengers
even if the religion differed like Christianity, Judaism and others. Islam means
submission and complete humility of the heart and limbs to Allah Almighty. This is
achieved by following His orders, avoiding what He has prohibited and ruling by His
laws and being satisfied with it. And therefore, all of this is from love for Allah and
why not?! He is the Lord, the Creator who Created from nothing, the bestower of all
blessings, the One who has no associate in His Lordship and therefore He deserves
to be singled out in worship and worshiped alone, with complete submission and
humility to Him Glorified and Exalted.
From Allah’s mercy upon us, He sent to us Prophets and Messengers, helped by Him,
which is shown in the truth of their call and message in order to clarify and show us
the truth, which is from the same angle that the people of falsehood seek to attack.
Therefore, it is from Allah’s wisdom that He sent the Prophets one after another,
helped by Him with miracles to call people and guide them to Allah and warning
them from straying from the straight path to the paths of those who are corrupt
using their intellect incorrectly and being lead and following their whims and
desires.
Therefore, one must believe in Allah’s Prophets and Messengers once the truth of
their message is clearand in accordance with the natural disposition and the purity
of ones instinct and the sound mind supported by the miracle which Allah chose for
all of them in accordance with His wisdom and will.
And it is not permissible for anyone to belie the message of any of the Prophets even
if he believed in all of the Prophets before and after him.
The religion of the Prophets is one, and they only came with one religion, which is
Islam even if the legislation, which they came with to their nations, differed in
accordance with Allah’s wisdom and will.
But if Allah one after the other at some point in time did not send Prophets, the
example of this is that of Prophet Moses and Prophet Jesus may Allah’s blessings be
upon them. Allah sent Prophet Moses with the Torah, then after a long time, He sent
Prophet Jesus with the Bible. During this long period between the message of Moses
and the message of Jesus, the people followed the message of Moses as Prophet
Jesus’ message had not come yet. Then the message of Prophet Jesus was sent in
accordance with Allah’s will, His wisdom and His knowledge, so it is obligatory upon
everyone to follow the message Prophet Jesus came with and it is not permissible
for anybody to reject what Prophet Jesus came with claiming to follow the message
of Prophet Moses.
If the rules brought by the legislation of Jesus were to differ with the previous
legislation of Moses then it is considered as an abrogation for the previous rule and
so it is binding for all those who follow Prophet Jesus until another law is revealed.