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    Marc Chagall’s painting of the Prophet Isaiah is very dramatic. In the center, the painting depicts the moment when a seraph purifies Isaiah’s lips with live coal. In the Bible, Isaiah focuses on his “unclean lips” from speaking sins in the past and how those sins would make it impossible to speak the word of Yahweh. To make it so that he could receive the gift of utterance, the seraph purified his lips (Armstrong 42). This gave Isaiah the ability to purely convey the words he will be asked to…

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    Prophet Muhammad (S) was the best of the messengers because his message is still being installed centuries after his deaths. Prophet Muhammad spread Islam peacefully; he showed the non-Muslims the characteristics of a believer, he was patient with the converts and was responsible. A profusion of people thinks that Prophet Muhammad (S) spread Islam violently because he was racist, and commanding his followers to do a bunch of stuff. Faith is interlinked with with the individual’s conviction.…

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    Prophets accelerate the glory of god in many of the books located in the Bible, they are a main focus whether old or new testament, they hold value to overall themes and create a vessel for god to shine through. There are many prophets in the Bible and each one of their tasks are giving by god. With the ultimate purpose of protecting them from the evils of the world and leading to salvation. Many Prophets follow every word giving to them by God while others run away from their destiny causing…

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    for a woman named Khadijah, who soon proposed marriage. They had many children that continued on the bloodline. Muhammad stayed a merchant but also cared for spiritual matters. He went to pray in a cave in 610 C.E, where he received a call to be a prophet. The Arabs called this Allah. Muhammad said that he was paid a visit from the angel Gabriel who told him to ¨recite¨ and that he was the messenger of God. Khadijah, his wife, told him that God chose him. She became the first convert to Islam,…

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    The Prophet Muhammad founded the religion of Islam. Muslims believe the Koran to be the words of God revealed to the prophet. Muhammad was born about AD 570 in the city of Mecca, an important trading center in western Arabia. He was a member of the Hashim clan of the powerful Quraysh tribe. Because Muhammad’s father, Abd Allah, died before he was born and his mother, Amina, when he was 6 years old, he was placed in the care of his grandfatherAbd al-Muttalib and, after 578, his uncle Abu Talib,…

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    where he learned to be a trader he later worked for Khadijah who he later married. He told his followers that he went into a cave where he met an angel named Gabriel where he told him that he was the messenger of god or Allah. After which he became a prophet. People wrote down his words in the Qur’an. Muhammad taught people to believe in one god. Some members of his clan became muslims but most rejected him. powerful…

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    author in his book, History of the Prophets and Kings, talks about the revelation that was given to Prophet Muhammad. Some of these accounts are believed to have come directly from the prophet yet they are contradictory. This historian is reluctant to give the full details of the revelations that were given to Muhammad. Instead, he is concerned about the themes, symbols and the lessons that he believes are important to the people. He is a fervent believer of prophet-hood but gives only what he…

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    Prophet Muhammad was born in 570 CE in the city of Mecca of the Arabian Peninsula. It is part of today Saudi Arabia. The name Muhammad means highly praised. His father died weeks before his birth during a journey. He became an orphan. The ancient Arabas believed desert is purer environment to grow. Muhammad learned the difficulty to live in the dessert. He was send to land of Bani Asad. And no one wanted to adopt Muhammad because he is an orphan. Only one family eventually accepted him and their…

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    According to bible.ca, the prophet Muhammad committed act of terrorism by a direct order of killing the Jews and quoted “kill any Jew that comes under your power". One of his followers killed a merchant Jew under his direction due to conflict of religious beliefs. According to bible.ca, during the early years of his revelation, the prophet was a more peaceful human being. After he stumbled from all the persecutions, he finally acquired…

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    Prophets In The Prophet

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    In the Old Testament, God uses prophets as His mediators. They serve as a middle man between God and man. As God’s story unfolds in the Old Testament, we see great prophets emerge during times of great injustice. Among these great prophets is Elijah, an Israelite and worshiper of God under during the reign of Ahab and his murderous, idolatrous wife Jezebel. Ahab himself let his uncertainty and fear drive his passivity, which, even more so, gave way to Jezebel’s evil desires. As Ahab & Jezebel…

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