Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Fri Dec 30, 2022 7:25 am
Finality is mentioned in the Holy Quran as well as books of traditions. It is mentioned in Quran that:
مَا كَانَ مُحَمَّدٌ أَبَآ أَحَدٍ مِّن رِّجَالِكُمْ وَلَكِن رَّسُولَ اللَّهِ وَخَاتَمَ النَّبِيِّينَ وَكَانَ اللَّهُ بِكُلِّ شَىْءٍ عَلِيماً
“Muhammad is not the father of any of your men, but
he is the Apostle of Allah and the Last of the prophets; and Allah is cognizant of all things.” (33:40)
Prophet Mohammad tried to bring the unity among religions in His region even facing terrible wars and hence, He should be praised as the Pillar of the Universal Religion of the world. Similarly, Shankara tried to bring the unity of the religions in India and faced cruel fights like black magic and should be considered as another pillar of Universal Religion of the world. The concept of the Universal Religion is very important in the present days of violence created based on inter-religious splits. You can follow your religion sincerely without looking to any side avoiding the criticism of other parallel religions leading to the same goal. Lord Krishna also says in Gita to follow your religion in which your forefathers travelled and also advised not to change your religion to the other by which your soul gets threats (Enaasya pitaro yaataah..., Paradharmo bhayaavah...). There is no need to change your religion because your religion is a straight road from your house to the goal. You need not go to house of another person and travel by the road from his house to reach the same goal. This cross walk is change of religion, which is totally unnecessary.
Every path says that it is meant for the entire mankind to reach the goal. The entire mankind here means the people living in that area. If it is said that all the people of this colony can reach the railway station by travelling through a specific stipulated road running from that colony, it does not mean that all the people of the entire city should go by that way only to reach the station. The scripture of every religion says that, that particular scripture alone is the path for all mankind. It only means that that scripture alone is the path for all the mankind belonging to that religion. Mankind referred here is not the mankind of the entire world. If there is only one language on the entire earth and subsequently one scripture only, in such case, the entire mankind refers to the entire humanity of the world. God Allah should have created only one Urdu language in the entire world and all the countries on the earth should have been interlinked from the beginning of the creation so that the communication can be spread in the entire world immediately as soon as a Prophet speaks something in one part of the earth. In such case, the entire mankind means really the entire mankind of the entire world. But, the situation is quite different.
Allah is only the one God and created the entire humanity on the earth. All are His children only and He shows no partiality to any religion of a region without reason. Different regions of the earth have different languages and follow different religions. In every religion Prophets exist. In Islam, only 28 Prophets were mentioned. But, Prophet Mohammad, the Pillar of Universal Religion stated that 124,000 Prophets have come so far on the earth till His time. This clearly shows that Mohammad accepted all the other religions and the Prophets of other religions also. If He is conserved to Islam only, He should have mentioned the same 28 Prophets only. You can follow your own religion sincerely and you will certainly reach the ultimate goal. There is no trace of doubt in this. Similarly, the people of other religions can reach the same goal by following their own religions coming from their forefathers. You should not say that other religions are wrong and cannot lead anybody to the goal and only your religion can lead to the goal. You should not say that all people in the city should come to your colony only and reach the station by travelling on the road starting from your colony only. This criticism applies to the blind fanaticism of every religion. If you say that only those 28 Prophets delivered the knowledge of God from the beginning of the creation, all the countries on the earth were not connected to each other in the olden days. In such case, those messages restricted to one or two languages only, confined to one or two regions, did not spread immediately to all the other countries. Several generations have passed away without the knowledge of those Prophets since the countries are connected in the recent times only.
All those generations missed those scriptures of those Prophets and were deprived of the chance of reaching God through that specified knowledge for their no faults. Is it not the unjust partiality of Allah? If you say that only good people existed in those one or two regions and the people of all the other regions are sinners, this logic is also not valid since there are sinners in those one or two regions also by whom the Prophet Jesus was crucified. This means that both good and bad people existed in every region from the beginning of the creation. Hence, you cannot save Allah from the unjust and reasonless partiality. I can give the explanation that establishes the justified reasonable impartiality of Allah on the entire mankind of the world. The explanation is: 28 Prophets were sent to Islam and Christianity since Prophets were common up to Jesus. The other Prophets, who were 124,000–28, were sent to various regions of the world for the sake of other religions as Prophets. The subject of all those Prophets was the same that was delivered by those 28 Prophets. Only language differed and since the subject is one and the same, Allah is impartial towards all the mankind of this world. This explanation has the acceptance of revered Mohammad since He mentioned 124,000 Prophets and did not confine to the 28 Prophets only.
Mohammad also said that all the Prophets must be equally respected. The ranking in the Prophets is only due to ranking in the humanity asking doubts. As time passes on, the I.Q. of humanity increases day by day and the doubts become more and more sharp and cute. The development of science is the reason for this growth of I.Q. The answers must also be in the increasing level of the power of logic. The same God is speaking through all these Prophets. The same God possesses the knowledge of the highest level from the beginning. Since the I.Q. of the old generations was low, God gave the answers through Prophets in the corresponding level only. The rank of the doubts increased in course of time and correspondingly the rank of the answers also. By this, the rank of God did not increase and hence, the rank of Prophets also cannot increase. God possessed all the knowledge from the beginning. Only expression differed as per the required level. A professor can teach LKG and PG classes. In LKG class, he expressed very little knowledge and in PG class very high knowledge was expressed. This does not mean that the level of the professor increased from LKG to PG. There is no change in the level of the professor in both the classes. Only the level of expression increased. The level of the possession of the knowledge is same in both the classes. Therefore, the rank of the Prophet refers to the rank of the human beings that increased in course of time.
Seal of the Prophets with Mohammad means that Mohammad completed whatever He has to say. Whatever was said by Mohammad contains the answers of all possible doubts in the future also and this is only an assumption. This can be decided only when the future ends since the past always showed advancement of doubts in the later part of time. This seal must also mean the seal in the Islam religion only. You should not extend this concept to all the other religions inviting inter-religious splits disturbing the peace of the world.