[New readers should start reading from the 1st post]
The link between Creator and creation from the Creators side is His Divine attribute of Speech. The link between Creator and creation from creations side is those who made to hear Divine Speech.
Due to the fact that God is far too vast for humans to comprehend and for our facilities to be exposed to directly, God made amongst us certain humans who are given the gift of hearing Divine Speech and higher understanding. The method by which those special humans hear Divine Speech is called revelation because of the way Divine Speech connects with creation (which will be discussed in more detail in a later post).
These special humans are of two kinds:
1- Prophets
2- Messengers
Prophets far out number Messengers is number, throughout history there have been hundreds of Prophets. Both the Prophet and the Messenger receive revelation from God, however the Prophet is not necessarily commanded to teach this revelation to others while the Messenger is.
Messengers are a higher degree than Prophets since they are given a Divine "book" that they spread and teach to others. However, both Prophets and Messengers share the exact same attributes in what they are as humans.
The attributes that we must believe in about Prophets in order to fully believe and adhere to religion are 9 attributes
These 9 Attributes for Prophets can be split into 3 different categories
1- Necessary Attributes, which are 4.
2- Possible Attributes, which are 1.
3- Impossible Attributes, which are 4.
When we get to a proper understanding of what those Prophets are about, the same way we came to a proper understanding of what God is, we can then start to get a clearer picture of what it is these Prophets came with and told the rest of creation.
The Attributes we need to believe in regarding Prophets will be mentioned in the next post, God willing.
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