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 command to obey the messenger refers to specific instructions Muhammad issued as a leader during his lifetime, not after his death.1, 2
A righteous life includes repenting, upholding the whole Quran and nothing but it, obeying the messenger which is now the Quran, daily prayers, Ramadan fasting, Zakat, and Hajj if affordable.1
We feed our souls by observing the contact prayers as pointed out by the messenger, which is the Quran.1, 2
Consistently naming Muhammad as God's messenger while neglecting the other messengers amounts to denying them, and the Quran in 2:285 commands giving no distinction to any messenger.1
The Quranic command to obey the messenger can easily be misused as an excuse for ideas taken out of context, ignoring limits of time and circumstance.1
Anyone who disobeys God and His messenger deserves the retribution of Hell forever, and such disobedience brings humiliation, defeat, misery, and shame in this life and the Hereafter.1, 2
Anyone who opposes the messenger after guidance has been shown and follows a path other than the believers is directed the way he chose and ends up in Hell.1
If Muslims rid their minds of inherited traditions and innovations and return to God and His messenger, they would see that the Ummah's present decline results directly from disobeying the Prophet.1
Satan misled Muslims by disguising disobedience of the Prophet as great love for him, because love that exceeds its limits turns into its opposite, hatred.1
God ordered Muhammad to consult the believers, so obedience to a living messenger is open to consultation and discussion, yet the final decision once made should be followed.1, 2, 3
The Quran is a permanent messenger.1
Prophet Muhammad followed the Quran alone, and those who want to follow him and restore Islam must likewise follow the Quran alone.1, 2, 3
Muhammad's example was to deliver and follow the Quran, so we follow his example and obey the messenger by following the Quran.1, 2
Believers should stay united with those headed the same way, obey God and His messenger, and not dispute among themselves, lest they fail and scatter their strength.1, 2, 3
Those who love God should follow His messenger, and then God will love them and forgive their sins.1
Those who love God should follow the messenger, and then God will love them and forgive their sins, but God does not love the disbelievers.1
Satan has duped millions of Muslims into disobeying God and His messenger, and those who disobey God and His messenger incur Hell forever.1, 2
By God's criterion in 9:24, anyone who does not love God's messenger more than his own family is not a believer, and Rashad Khalifa is God's proven messenger.1
Obeying God and the messengers is an obligation, not because of who the messengers are but because they bring trustworthy information from God.1, 2, 3
Believers must obey God and His messenger and not dispute among themselves, lest they fail and become weak, and they must persevere because God is with the steadfast.1
God sends messengers to clarify and purify the message, and to reach Paradise we must listen to, learn from, and obey them.1, 2
While a messenger lives among us we obey and follow him, and after his death we follow his message and the practices he taught, and the Quran is itself a messenger of God.1, 2
All Muslims are invited to come to God and His Prophet Muhammad and to obey God and His Prophet.1
In 2:285 the true believers say we hear and we obey right after the command to give no distinction to any messenger, which shows how gross it is to disobey by distinguishing one.1, 2
Every human being pledged before creation to believe in and fully cooperate with the messenger of 3:81, and those who fail to believe are rejectors of the Quran.1, 2
Obeying the messenger means upholding the message and carrying out the orders he was sent with, since the messenger is an instrument God used for His message.1
Believers who reverence God and speak only correct words have their works fixed and sins forgiven, and those obeying God and His messenger triumph.1
Whenever invited to God and His messenger to judge their affairs, true believers say we hear and we obey, unlike those who say we hear when they do not hear.1, 2
The hadith compilations were made 200 to 250 years after the Prophet died, they are the compilers' responsibility, and the Prophet's duty as messenger was to deliver the Quran.1
Whoever opposes the messenger after guidance is made clear and follows other than the believers' way is left to his choice and committed to Hell.1
God commanded believers to obey the message His messengers were given within the scope of the revealed word, and to make no distinction among His messengers.1, 2
Following the messenger brings God's love and forgiveness, so we should neither assume we have God's love nor fear that we can never receive it.1, 2
All Muslims are invited to come to God and His Prophet Muhammad and to obey them.1
Believers make no distinction among God's messengers, but Muslims disobey by exalting Muhammad above all other messengers and neglecting the rest.1
The Prophet was commanded to follow only what was revealed to him and said so himself, so he followed the Quran alone.1, 2
Writing hadith during the revelation violated the Prophet's order to write nothing but the Quran, and there is no evidence he ever cancelled that order.1, 2, 3
God's command to obey the messenger means obeying God and following only the Quran, not following the Hadith.1
God pledges tremendous support and blessings to those who honor the pre-world covenant by believing and supporting His messengers.1
A believer writing from Nigeria holds that it is the believers' duty to assist the messenger, through whom God will make Islam recognized as the true religion.1, 2
Those who reverence God while believing in His messengers receive double the reward, and part of reverencing God is following His messengers.1, 2
Following the Quran alone requires studying it carefully, and accepting an honorable messenger's instructions on the rites, especially when we can verify them, is fully Quranic.1, 2
Obeying God's messenger brings guidance, and the messenger is to be obeyed and trusted.1, 2
Observing the Contact Prayers, giving Zakat, and obeying the messenger lead to God's mercy.1
Believers who reverence God and speak only correct words have their works fixed and sins forgiven, and those who obey God and His messenger triumph.1