The concept of prophethood is found in the three great monotheistic religions of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. In Islam, however, it has a special status and significance.

According to Islam, Allah created man to worship Him and to lead a virtuous life based on His teachings and guidance. But how can man know and fulfill his role and the purpose of his existence if he does not receive clear and practical instructions of what Allah wants him to do? The existence of prophethood, by which Allah sent a prophet to every nation to reveal His message in terms that the people could understand, has answered this question most effectively.

The scholarship of the Orientalists in regards to the alleged Jewish and Christian sources of the Qur’ân can be at best described as confusing. Their claims that the Qur’ân is borrowed from the Bible stems from the fact that some of the stories in the Qur’ân resemble those found in the Bible, thus the former [...]

Fourteen centuries ago, God sent down the Quran as a guide to all humanity.

At the time the Arab society was in a state of complete degeneration, chaos and ignorance. They were a barbarous people who worshipped idols of their own making, believed warfare and bloodshed to be virtuous and were even capable of killing their own children. They had little interest in intellectual matters, let alone a scientific outlook to the natural world.

An eminent British philosopher-a key champion of atheism for more than fifty years-announced late last year that he has come to believe that there really is a God, on account of the intelligent design of the universe and life forms. Antony Flew, who became an atheist at 15, debated at Oxford in the 1950s. He [...]

Becoming Muslim Amal As a young girl born in the Northwest of the USA, my dream was to become a nun. Growing up Roman Catholic, I saw the nuns have a spirtual presence that attracted me until I reached the age of 14. It was then I started having misgivings about Catholic doctrine, so I [...]

Muhammad Alexander Russel Webb was born in 1846 at Hudson, Columbia county, New York. Educated at Hudson and New York he became an essayist and a short-story writer. He took to journalism and became the editor of St. Joseph Gazette and of Missouri Republican. In 1887 he was appointed United States Consul at Manila, Phillipines. It was during this assignment that he studied Islam and joined its fold. After becoming Muslim he extensively toured the world of Islam and devoted the rest of his life to Missionary work. He also became the head of the Islamic Propaganda Mission in U.S.A. Mr. Webb died on 1st October 1916.

Hayat Ann Collins Osman, USA I was raised in a religious Christian family.  At that time, Americans were more religious than they are now-most families went to church every Sunday, for example.  My parents were involved in the church community.  We often had ministers (Protestant “priests”) in the house.  My mother taught in Sunday school, [...]

by Fouad Haddad (Lebanon) Written on the 19th of Ramadan 1417 (28 January 1997) I was born and raised in a typical middle-class Lebanese Catholic family in Beirut, Lebanon. Two years into the war I was forced to leave, and completed high school in England. Then I went to Columbia College in New York. After [...]

The Quran is in Arabic. However, the Quran has a great impact upon the hearts of people who do not even understand the language. Here is an interesting account of one such event. If you want to listen to the Divine Composition of the Quran that moves millions of souls, you can now feel its [...]

“The way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.  (From the NIV Bible, John 14:6)” “That everyone who believes in him may have eternal life. “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish [...]