☪️Islamic Creed ('Aqidah)
The need for messengers
الحاجة إلى الرسل
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About this work
كتاب «الحاجة إلى الرسل» يتناول في إطار العقيدة الإسلامية مسألة ضرورة إرسال الرسل للإنسان كوسيلة لتزويده بالعلم الإلهي وتوجيه عبادته وحياته. يشرح مفهوم النبوة كمنحة إلهية ويستعرض صفات الرسل من الصدق إلى العصمة، ثم يبيّن وظائفهم في البلاغ، الدعوة، التبشير، تقويم الفكر وتدبير شؤون الأمة. يركز النص على أن الإنسان، رغم قدرته المعرفية والاجتماعية، يبقى في حاجة إلى مصدر عليم لتصحيح فهمه وتنسيق علاقاته وفق الشريعة.
Translation
The book “The Need for Messengers” addresses within the framework of the Islamic faith the issue of the necessity of sending messengers to man as a means of providing him with divine knowledge and guiding his worship and life. He explains the concept of prophecy as a divine gift and reviews the characteristics of the messengers from honesty to infallibility, then explains their functions in communicating, calling, evangelizing, correcting thought, and managing the affairs of the nation. The text emphasizes that a person, despite his cognitive and social ability, still needs a knowledgeable source to correct his understanding and coordinate his relationships according to Sharia.
Topics covered
- Why are messengers needed?
- Prophecy is a divine gift
- The humanity of the apostles
- Why were the apostles human?
- Required by the humanity of the messengers
- Selection of messengers
- Characteristics of the messengers
- First, honesty
- Secondly, honesty
- Third, acumen
- Fourth, infallibility
- Functions of apostles
- Firstly, the stated statement
- Secondly, inviting people to the true religion by explaining what they are obligated to do
- Third, evangelism and warning
- Fourth: Correcting deviant thought and false beliefs
- Fifth: Managing the affairs of the nation in general and its policy
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