13) Prophets

The four Necessary Attributes we need to believe about Prophets are as follows

1) Truthfulness. They are immaculately truthful and has always been truthful and honest his whole life.
2) Sincerity. Prophets are immensely sincere and devout their entire life.
3) Spread Truth. The speak the truth and spreads the message when/if told to.
4) Powerful minds. Prophets have a very strong intellect, they are extremely smart.

We believe that Prophets have those four attributes and that it is inconceivable for them to be anything that isn't the above.

The 2 attributes that are "Possible" for Prophets are
All human attributes such as: eating, drinking, sleep, marriage, sickness (so long as the sickness is not something that makes people flee from them, such a sickness is impossible for Prophets), etc

The 4 attributes that are Impossible for Prophets are

1) Lying. It is impossible for a Prophet to lie, a prophet simply cannot do it.
2) Treachery. It is impossible for a Prophet to be treacherous.
3) Silent. It is impossible for a Prophet to be silent when he is ordered not to speak (ie Impossible not to spread the message)
4) Stupidity. It is impossible for a Prophet to be stupid or have weak intellect.


If there any of the above are missing in person's understanding and belief in Prophets it would affect their practice of religion, since the link between creation and Creator's Speech are the Prophets. And we can only gain deeper understanding about the Divine through learning what He has revealed. If we believe that the person receiving the message can commit major mistakes or lacks certain attributes then there shall always remain uncertainty as to what God really said. That defeats the entire purpose behind God sharing with creation His Divine Speech. The medium that transmits God's Speech needs to be completely pure and immaculate.

12) The Link

[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.