Dr. Rashad Khalifa
All messengers delivered the same message, that you shall not worship except God, so disobeying them is disbelief or idol worship.1
Neither Jesus nor Muhammad wants to be idolized; the sole function of every messenger was to preach the worship of God alone.1
Prophets before Abraham were given no religious practices, as only belief in God alone was required for salvation in that primitive society.1
Dr. Rashad Khalifa
Every messenger was supported by miracles from God, and the Quran teaches that the miracle given to the prophet Muhammad is the Quran itself.1, 2, 3
The mathematical evidence proves the authenticity and perfect preservation of the Quran and also confirms the miracles of earlier messengers such as Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, and Jesus.1, 2
A Nabi, or prophet, is a messenger who delivers a new scripture, while a Rasoul is a messenger who confirms existing scripture; every prophet is a messenger, but not every messenger is a prophet.1
A true messenger of God advocates worship of God alone and abolition of idol worship, never asks for a wage, and is given incontrovertible proof; anyone failing these is a false claimant.1, 2
During his Hajj, before sunrise on December 21, 1971, Rashad Khalifa's soul was taken to a place in the universe and introduced to all the prophets as God's Messenger of the Covenant.1, 2
Every messenger of God must present proof and is supported by incontrovertible divine signs, such as Moses' staff, Jesus' healing, Saleh's camel, Abraham surviving the fire, and Muhammad's Quran.1, 2
God supports His true messenger with invisible soldiers and His treasury and guarantees him and the believers victory, so his truthfulness prevails while a fake messenger is eventually exposed.1, 2, 3
It is illogical that God would give a prophet a scripture to keep for himself, and Aaron, called a prophet, did receive the scripture together with Moses.1, 2
People have always tended to reject a living contemporary messenger; Joseph was declared the last messenger, yet many messengers came after him.1
Sending messengers to provide final solutions and new information is a mercy from God, and believers must accept their teachings without the slightest hesitation.1, 2
The Quran prophesies that the Messenger of the Covenant comes after all the prophets and all of God's scriptures, and the prophets pledged to believe in and support him.1, 2
The souls of the dead prophets and believers are alive in the Garden of Eden where Adam and Eve lived, though they cannot come back to our world.1, 2
The Gospels quote Jesus saying that he was sent by God, could do nothing of himself, and spoke only what God commanded him to say.1, 2, 3, 4
The Quran teaches that Jesus was a human messenger of God whose sole mission was to deliver God's message, that he never possessed any power, and that he is now dead.1
God alone knows the future and permits no one to unveil it, except that He reveals future and past events through the messengers He chooses.1
It is mathematically coded into the Quran that Abraham, Muhammad, and Rashad are the three messengers of Islam, which is Submission.1
God alone knows the future and reveals specific news of past and future only to a messenger He chooses, to ensure the messengers deliver their Lord's messages.1, 2, 3
It is not up to the messenger what happens to the disbelievers; God may redeem them or punish them, and He forgives and punishes whomever He wills.1, 2
When delivering God's messages, messengers do not speak on their own initiative, as the Bible also documents, and Jesus likewise taught that obeying him meant obeying God.1, 2, 3
Messengers remind people of God's laws and mention no other name besides God, and when a community rebels against them, retribution comes to it quickly.1, 2, 3
Muhammad was a fallible human being, and God made the messengers imperfect so that people would not worship them.1, 2, 3, 4
The messenger leads those who already believe and lead a righteous life out of darkness into the light, but he cannot do anything for those who do not believe.1, 2, 3, 4
The warning of 39:65 applies to every messenger: committing idol worship nullifies all one's works.1, 2, 3
People who refused to follow humans like themselves erred, because messengers are not followed; God's instructions are followed, and the messenger himself must follow them.1, 2, 3
A man who has lived among his people for years and is known not to be crazy, yet claims to be God's messenger, is either truly God's messenger or a very bad person, with nothing in between.1, 2, 3, 4
God appoints messengers after the age of forty, consistently, except for Jesus, for special reasons.1, 2, 3
The first generation that accepts a messenger while being persecuted for worshiping God alone becomes the elite of the elite forever, and being born at this time is no coincidence.1, 2, 3, 4
The prophets fulfilled the covenant by recognizing, acknowledging, supporting, and believing in the Messenger of the Covenant.1, 2
The Quran deliberately states that Jesus, Mary, and all the messengers ate food and walked in the markets, which shows the stupidity of idolizing them.1, 2, 3, 4
The message of every messenger is that there is no god except the one God.1
God has decreed that He and His messengers will always win.1
Obeying the messenger means obeying God in the information that comes from God, not personal obedience to the messenger.1, 2, 3
God appointed enemies for every prophet who invent fancy words to deceive, and those who do not believe in the Hereafter are attracted to these fabrications called hadith and sunna.1, 2, 3
God sent Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad to preach the worship of God alone, not the glorification of themselves or anyone else.1, 2, 3, 4
The Quran repeatedly says the prophets have no power to benefit or harm because people tend to idolize their leaders, so Christians idolize Jesus and Muslims idolize Muhammad.1, 2, 3