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REVIVAL رساله التجديد  (Eng/Urdu) My greetings and salaam to both the Sufi and Mullah for their endeavours in conveying the message of God...

The Creator


"God is the Creator of all things, and He is the One, the Almighty” (Qur’an;13:16). “GOD - there is no deity save Him, the Ever-Living, the Self-Subsistent Fount of All Being. Neither slumber overtakes Him, nor sleep. His is all that is in the heavens and all that is on earth. Who is there that could intercede with Him, unless it be by His leave? He knows all that lies open before men and all that is hidden from them, whereas they cannot attain to aught of His knowledge save that which He wills (them to attain). His eternal power overspreads the heavens and the earth, and their upholding wearies Him not. And He alone is truly exalted, tremendous.”(Qur’an;2 255). “Say: He is Allah the One and Only; God the Eternal, the Uncaused Cause of All Being ; He begets not, and neither is He begotten; And there is nothing that can be  compared with Him.”(Qur’an;112:1-4).“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord”(Moses, Deuteronomy;6:4; Jesus,Mark;12:29). “Wherefore thou art great, O LORD God: for there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee,”(2 Samuel;7:22 ),“And he (Jesus) said unto him, Why you call me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.”(Mathew;19:17).
    
Introduction
The idea of a Supreme Power who is the First Cause of all things, the Creator and Ruler of heaven and earth has always been part of human nature from the beginning. He was not represented by images and had no temple or priests in His service. He was too exalted for an inadequate human cult. Hence there had been a primitive monotheism before people had started to worship a number of deities. Generally He faded from the consciousness of his people who formed images of many deities, His assistants, thus began the paganism. The name given to this divine Supreme Creator and Sustainer in English is God. The belief of a Supreme deity who created the world and governs it, still remains among the primitive African tribes. The belief on God was followed by His worship in different cultures. The relation of a group of human beings to God or the gods or to whatever they consider sacred or, in some cases, merely supernatural is known as religion. The word ‘religion’ is derived form Latin ‘religio’ means ‘to bind’. Thus the religion is the way of binding the people together through common deity worship and rituals. The religions differ in their set of principles or beliefs or the body of dogmas; the theological virtue as secure belief in God and a trusting acceptance of God's will. Allah says: “In fact, your religion is one religion, and I am your only Lord: so fear Me Alone. Yet people have divided themselves into factions and each faction rejoices in its own doctrines”(Qur’an;23:52-53).
Rudolf Otto (1869-1937), the German theologian, philosopher, and historian of religion, coined the term ‘numinous’ (supernatural, mystical or spiritual) to designate the nonrational element of religious experience—the awe, fascination, and blissful exultation inspired by the perception of the divine. He believed that religion provided an understanding of the world that was distinct from and beyond that of science. He said; “The most important part  of religion can not be stated through words. This is (apparently) illogical part of religion. Stable part of religion is the ideological part which is very important. But we should not forget that there is more which can not be put in to words’. Each religion has its own set of beliefs generally shared by a community, and they express the communal culture and values through myth, doctrine, and rituals. Worship is probably the most basic element of religion, but moral conduct, right belief, and participation in religious institutions also constitute elements of the religious life. Religions attempt to answer basic questions intrinsic to the human mind like: existence of God, creation of universe and humanity, human sufferings, evil, death and its aftermath etc. The main outwardly focused Abrahamic religions e.g., Judaism (Hebrews), Christianity, and Islam attempt to satisfy human quest through the Revealed knowledge received by the prophets and messengers of God, while inwardly focused religions like Jainism, Buddhism make use of perception of the true nature of reality. While exploring the historic development in theosophical and scientific aspects about ‘The God’ and ‘The Creation’ specifically in the three religions linked to Abraham  (who was neither Jew nor Christian, rather the one who had totally surrendered in obedience to the will of God). This original religion of Abraham was revived in its unique spirit of monotheism, fourteen hundred years ago in concordance with the light of reason; exclusive of mysterious doctrines to cast a shade of sentimental ignorance round the original truths rooted in the human intellect, representing the latest development of the religious faculties. Hence Islam emerges as true legacy of Abraham contrary to the common perception that it was a new religion founded by Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him).
Main Doctrines:
The beliefs supporting the existence of God or against it, including the middle positions have resulted in an array of doctrines, the most prominent among them are; Theism, Monotheism, Theodicy, Deism, Agnosticism and Atheism. Theism, is the view that all observable phenomena are dependent on but distinct from one supreme being. The view usually entails the idea that God is beyond human comprehension, perfect and self-sustained, but also peculiarly involved in the world and its events. Theists seek support for their view in rational argument and appeals to experience. A central issue for theism is reconciling God, usually understood as omnipotent and perfect, with the existence of evil. Monotheism; is the belief in the existence of one God. It is distinguished from polytheism. Monotheism is characteristic of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, which view God as the creator of the world, who oversees and intervenes in human events, and as a beneficent and holy being, the source of the highest good. Most other religions throughout the history have been polytheistic, believing in numerous gods dominated by a supreme god or by a small group of powerful gods. The monotheism that characterizes Judaism began in ancient Israel with the adoption of Yahweh as the single object of worship and the rejection of the gods of other tribes and nations without, initially, denying their existence. Islam is clear in confessing one, eternal, unbegotten, unequaled God, while Christianity holds that a single God is reflected in the three persons of the Holy Trinity. The Theodicy is an argument for the justification of God, concerned with reconciling God's goodness and justice with the observable facts of evil and suffering in the world. Most such arguments are a necessary component of theism. Under polytheism, the problem is solved by attributing evil to a conflict of wills between deities. The solution is less simple in monotheism, and it can take several forms. In some approaches, the perfect world created by God was spoiled by human disobedience or sin. In others, God withdrew after creating the world, which then fell into decay.
The Deism; is the belief in God based on reason rather than revelation or the teaching of any specific religion. A form of natural religion, Deism originated in England in the early 17th century as a rejection of orthodox Christianity. Deists asserted that reason could find evidence of God in nature and that God had created the world and then left it to operate under the natural laws he had devised. The philosopher Edward Herbert (1583–1648) developed this view in ‘On Truth’ (1624). By the late 18th century Deism was the dominant religious attitude among Europe's educated classes; it was accepted by many upper-class Americans of the same era, including the first three U.S. presidents. According to the doctrine of Agnosticism; One cannot know the existence of anything beyond the phenomena of experience. It is popularly equated with religious skepticism, and especially with the rejection of traditional Christian beliefs under the impact of modern scientific thought. T.H. Huxley popularized philosophical agnosticism after coining the term agnostic (as opposed to Gnostic) in 1869, to designate one who repudiated traditional Judeo-Christian theism but was not a doctrinaire atheist. Agnosticism may mean no more than the suspension of judgment on ultimate questions because of insufficient evidence, or it may constitute a rejection of traditional Christian tenets. Finally, the Atheism is the critique and denial of metaphysical beliefs in God or divine beings. Unlike agnosticism, which leaves the question of existence or non existence of God as open; the atheism positively denies the existence of God. It is rooted in an array of philosophical systems. Ancient Greek philosophers such as Democritus and Epicurus argued for it in the context of materialism. In the 18th century David Hume and Immanuel Kant, though not atheists, argued against traditional proofs for God's existence, making belief a matter of faith alone. Atheists such as Ludwig Feuerbach held that God was a projection of human ideals and that recognizing this fiction made self-realization possible. Marxism exemplified modern materialism. Beginning with Friedrich Nietzsche, existentialist atheism proclaimed the death of God and the human freedom to determine value and meaning. Logical positivism holds that propositions concerning the existence or nonexistence of God are nonsensical or meaningless.
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The Creation

    
Man has always been inquisitive about the origin and creation of universe to which earth is just a small part. The whole cosmic system of matter and energy is called universe. Its main constituents are the galaxies, within which are stars and stellar groupings and nebulae. Earth’s Sun is one star among the billions of stars in the Milky Way Galaxy.The book “The Creation” includes the traditional narratives and myths of Creation, Scientific & theosophical theories,  The Grand Design, Qur’anic and Biblical narrative of creation; Comparative analysis. Synthesis of Islamic & scientific narrative of creation. Human creation; Origin of life, Theory  Read Online or Download pdf.



The Message of Quran: by Muhammad Asad


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Muhammad Asad (born ‘Leopold Weiss’ is the author of  "Message of Quran". He was born in July 1900 in what was then Austro-Hungarian Lwów in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, now in Ukraine; died 1992). He was a Jew who converted to Islam and later served as one of the first Pakistani ambassadors to the United Nations. He died on February 20, 1992 in Spain, where he is buried. 
Biography
Asad was a descendant of a long line of rabbis. However, his father was a barrister. He received a thorough religious education. He was proficient in Hebrew from an early age and was also familiar with Aramaic. He studied the Old Testament, as well as the text and commentaries of the Talmud, the Mishna and Gemara. Furthermore, he delved into the intricacies of Biblical exegesis, the Targum. So, after abandoning university in Vienna, Asad (or Weiss, as he was then called) had drifted aimlessly around 1920s Germany, even working briefly for the expressionist film director Fritz Lang. By his own account after selling a jointly written film-script, he blew the windfall on a wild party at an expensive Berlin restaurant, in the spirit of the times. He got his first journalism published through sheer chutzpah while working as a telephone operator for an American news agency in Berlin. Using the simple expedient of ringing up her Berlin hotel room, he obtained an exclusive interview with the visiting wife of the Russian author Maxim Gorky, and the story was taken up by his employers.
Weiss later moved to the British Mandate of Palestine, staying in Jerusalem at the house of an uncle, the psychoanalyst Dorian Weiss. He picked up work as a stringer for the Frankfurter Zeitung, selling articles on a freelance basis. His pieces were noteworthy for their understanding of Arab fears and grievances against the Zionist project. Eventually contracted as a full-time foreign correspondent for the paper, his assignments led him to an ever deepening engagement with Islam, which after much thought led to his religious conversion in 1926. He spoke of Islam thus:
"Islam appears to me like a perfect work of architecture. All its parts are harmoniously conceived to complement and support each other; nothing is superfluous and nothing lacking; and the result is a structure of absolute balance and solid composure."
His travels and sojourns through Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Iran (he wrote many insightful articles on Shiism), and also Afghanistan and the southern Soviet Republics, were viewed with great suspicion by the Colonial Powers. One English diplomat in Saudi Arabia described him in a report as a "Bolshevik", and it is true that he took a close interest in the many liberation movements that were active at this time with the aim of freeing Muslim lands from colonial rule. He ended up in India where he met and worked alongside Dr.Muhammad Iqbal, the poet-philosopher, who had proposed the idea of an independent Muslim state in India, which later became Pakistan.
During WWII he was interned there by the British as an enemy alien. His parents meanwhile, were murdered by the Nazis in the Holocaust. Because of his out-spoken support for the Pakistan Movement, after Independence and the Partition of 1947, Asad was appointed Pakistani ambassador to the United Nations, as well as working with the Pakistani Foreign Ministry from 1949 till the early 1950s. He is credited with drafting the Objectives Resolution, which became the Preamble to the Constitution of Pakistan. Towards the end of his life, disturbed by the growing fanaticism of his fellow Muslims, he moved to Spain and lived there with his second wife, the Muslim convert Paola Hameeda Asad, until his death in 1992. He was buried in the muslim cemetery of Granada.
Asad wrote several books, and a biography of his early life has been published in German, Leopold Weiss alias Muhammad Asad. Von Galizien nach Arabien 1900-1927 by Gunther Windhager (Bohlau Verlag 2002}. Weiss's own version of this period is Road to Mecca, an account of his Middle Eastern travels and his conversion, as well as his thoughts on the growing Zionist movement. He also wrote ‘The Message of The Qur'an’, a translation and brief commentary on the Muslim holy book based on his own knowledge of classical Arabic and on the authoritative classical commentaries. It has been acclaimed as one of the best, if not the best, translations of the Quran into English, although it has been criticised by some traditionalists for its Mutazilite leanings (* see note on Mutazilite at the end). He also wrote a translation and commentary on the Sahih Bukhari, the most authoritative collection of Hadith. In addition, he wrote This Law of Ours where he sums up his views on Islamic law and rejects decisively the notion of ‘Taqlid’, or strict judicial precedent which has been accepted as doctrine by most Muslim sects except the Salafis. He also makes a plea for rationalism and plurality in Islamic law, which he sees as the true legacy of the salaf or earliest generations of Muslims.
In his book Islam at the Crossroads, he outlines his view that the Muslim world must make a choice between living by its own values and morality or accepting those of the West, in which case, they would always lag behind the West, which had had more time to adjust to those values and mores, and would end up compromising their own religion and culture. There are some playfully cryptic references to him in the recent bestseller The Orientalist by Tom Reiss (Random House 2005), and some slightly more sinister ones in the English translations of W.G. Sebald. He is father of Talal Asad, anthropologist specializing in religious studies and postcolonialism.
Works
·      Road to Mecca
·      The Message of The Qur'an
·      Translation and commentary on the Sahih Bukhari
·      This Law of Ours
·      Islam at the Crossroads
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محمد اسد ۔۔۔ عظیم اسلامی سکالر، مفسر قرآن ۔۔۔  علامہ اقبال کے ساتھی اور پاکستان کے UNO میں پہلے سفیر , قرارداد مقاصد کے محرک :
یہودیت چھوڑ کو اسلام قبول کرنے والے محمد اسد(سابق نام: لیوپولڈ ویز) جولائی 1900ء میں موجودہ یوکرین کے شہر لیویو میں پیدا ہوئے جو اس وقت آسٹرو۔ ہنگرین سلطنت کا حصہ تھا۔ بیسویں صدی میں امت اسلامیہ کے علمی افق کو جن ستاروں نے تابناک کیا ان میں جرمن نو مسلم محمد اسد کو ایک منفرد مقام حاصل ہے۔ اسد کی پیدائش ایک یہودی گھرانے میں ہوئی۔ 23 سال کی عمر میں ایک نو عمر صحافی کی حیثیت سے عرب دنیا میں تین سال گذارے اور اس تاریخی علاقے کے بدلتے ہوئے حالات کی عکاسی کے ذریعے بڑا نام پایا لیکن اس سے بڑا انعام ایمان کی دولت کی با‌زیافت کی شکل میں اس کی زندگی کا حاصل بن گیا۔ستمبر 1926ء میں جرمنی کے مشہور خیری برادران میں سے بڑے بھائی عبدالجبار خیری کے دست شفقت پر قبول اسلام کی بیعت کی اور پھر آخری سانس تک اللہ سے وفا کا رشتہ نبھاتے ہوئے اسلامی فکر کی تشکیل اور دعوت میں 66 سال صرف کرکے بالآخر 1992ء میں خالق حقیقی سے جا ملے۔
1932ء میں وہ ہندوستان آگئے اور شاعر مشرق علامہ محمد اقبال سے ملاقات کی۔ 1939ء میں وہ اس وقت شدید مسائل کا شکار ہوگئے جب برطانیہ نے انہیں دشمن کا کارندہ قرار دیتے ہوئے گرفتار کرلیا۔ محمد اسد کو 6 سال بعد، 1945ء میں رہائی ملی۔

1947ء میں قیام پاکستان کے بعد وہ پاکستان آگئے اور نئی ریاست کی نظریاتی بنیادوں کی تشکیل میں اہم کردار ادا کیا۔( قرارداد مقاصد Objective Resolution,  جو آئین پاکستان کی بنیاد بنا ، اس کے خدوخال میں آپ کی کاوش شامل ہے)  انہیں پہلا پاکستانی پاسپورٹ جاری کیا گیا۔ بعد ازاں انہیں پاکستان کی وزارت خارجہ کے شعبہ مشرق وسطی میں منتقل کردیا گیا جہاں انہوں نے دیگر مسلم ممالک سے پاکستان کے تعلقات مضبوط کرنے کا کام بخوبی انجام دیا۔ انہوں نے 1952ء تک اقوام متحدہ میں پاکستان کے پہلے سفیر کی حیثیت سے بھی خدمات انجام دیں۔
حج بیت اللہ؛ بیت اللہ پر پہلی نظر پڑنے کے 9 دن بعد اسد کی زندگی ایک نئے موڑ پر آگئی، ایلسا خالق حقیقی سے جا ملیں۔ بعد ازاں اسد نے مکہ میں قیام کے دورانشاہ فیصل سے ملاقات کی جو اس وقت ولی عہدتھے اور بعد ازاں سعودی مملکت کے بانی شاہعبدالعزیز السعود سے ملاقات کی۔ انہوں نے مکہ ومدینہ میں 6 سال گذارے اور عربی، قرآن، حدیثاور اسلامی تاریخ کی تعلیم حاصل کی۔

محمد اسد: قیمتی ہیرا: ایک دوسرے جرمن نو مسلم ولفریڈ ہوفمین نے ان کے لئے کہا تھا کہ محمد اسد اسلام کے لئے یورپ کا تحفہ ہیں۔ جبکہ جماعت اسلامی کے بانی مولانا سید ابو الاعلی مودودی نے 1936ء میں محمد اسد کے بارے میں تاریخی جملہ لکھا تھا کہ "میرا خیال یہ ہے کہ دور جدید میں اسلام کو جتنے غنائم یورپ سے ملے ہیں ان میں یہ سب سے زیادہ قیمتی ہیرا ہے"۔

نظریات، افکار، کارنامے: محمد اسد کوئی سرگرم کارکن نہ تھے لیکن فکری اعتبار سے ان کا کارنامہ بڑا واضح ہے اور اس میں چار چیزیں نمایاں ہیں:

1۔پہلی چیز مغربی تہذیب اور یہود عیسائی روایت (Judeo-Christian Tradition) کے بارے میں ان کا واضح اور مبنی برحق تبصرہ و تجزیہ ہے۔ مغرب کی قابل قدر چیزوں کے کھلے دل سے اعتراف کے ساتھ مغربی تہذیب اور عیسائی تہذیبی روایت کی جو بنیادی خامی اور کمزوری ہے اس کا نہایت واضح ادراک اور دو ٹوک اظہار ان کا بڑا علمی کارنامہ ہے۔ مغرب کے تصور کائنات، انسان، تاریخ اور معاشرے پر ان کی گہری نظر تھی اور اسلام سے اس کے تصادم کا انہیں پورا پورا شعور اور ادراک تھا۔ وہ کسی تہذیبی تصادم کے قائل نہ تھے مگر تہذیبوں کے اساسی فرق کے بارے میں انہوں نے کبھی سمجھوتہ نہیں کیا۔

2۔وہ اسلام کے ایک مکمل دین ہونے اور اس دین کی بنیاد پر اس کی تہذیب کے منفرد اظہار کو یقینی بنانے اور دور حاضر میں اسلام کی بنیاد پر صرف انفرادی کردار ہی نہیں بلکہ وہ اجتماعی نظام کی تشکیل نو کے داعی تھے اور اپنے اس مؤقف کو دلیل اور یقین کے ساتھ پیش کرتے تھے۔ اسلام کا یہ جامع تصور ان کے فکر اور کارنامے کا دوسرا نمایاں پہلو تھا۔
3۔ان کا تیسرا کارنامہ یہ ہے کہ انہوں نے امت کے زوال کے اسباب کا گہری نظر سے مطالعہ کیا اور اس سلسلے میں جن بنیادی کمزوریوں کی نشاندہی کی ان میں تصور دین کے غبار آلود ہوجانے کے ساتھ سیرت و کردار کے فقدان، دین و دنیا کی عملی تقسیم، اجتہاد سے غفلت اور رسوم و رواج کی محکومی اور سب سے بڑھ کر قرآن و سنت سے بلاواسطہ تعلق اور استفادے کی جگہ ثانوی مآخذ پر ضرورت سے زیادہ انحصار بلکہ ان کی اندھی تقلید بھی شامل ہے۔ ان کی دعوت کا خلاصہ قرآن و سنت سے رجوع اور ان کی بنیاد پر مستقل کی تعمیر و تشکیل تھی۔
4۔محمد اسد کے کام کی اہمیت کا چوتھا پہلو دور جدید میں اسلام کے اطلاق اور نفاذ کے سلسلے میں ان کی حکمت عملی اور اس سلسلے میں تحریک پاکستان سے ان کی وابستگی اور پاکستان کے بارے میں ان کا وژن اور عملی کوششیں ہیں جو قومی تعمیر نو کے ادارے "عرفات" کے سربراہ کی حیثیت سے ان کی نگارشات، ان کی تقاریر اور پھر ان کی دو کتب Islam at the Crossroads اور Road to Mecca ہیں۔ عرفات کے زمانے میں یہ مضامین دور حاضر میں نفاذ اسلام کا وژن اور اس کے لئے واضح حکمت عملی پیش کرتے ہیں۔ چند امور پر اختلاف کے باوجود محمد اسد کی فکر اور دور جدید کی اسلامی تحریکات کی فکر میں بڑی مناسبت اور یکسانی ہے حالانکہ وہ ان تحریکوں سے کبھی بھی عملا وابستہ نہیں رہے۔
قرآن محمد اسد کی فکر کا محور رہا اور حدیث و سنت کو وہ اسلامی نشاۃ ثانیہ کی اساس سمجھتے تھے۔ یہی وجہ ہے کہ اپنے تمام بڑے قیمتی مضامین کے باوصف ان کا اصل علمی کارنامہ قرآن پاک ترجمہ و تفسیر اور صحیح بخاری کے چند ابواب کا ترجمہ و تشریح ہے۔ ان کی معروف کتب میں Islam at the Crossroads، Road to Mecca اور The Principles of State and Government in Islam شامل ہیں۔
Road to Mecca علمی، ادبی اور تہذیبی ہر اعتبار سے ایک منفرد کارنامہ اور صدیوں زندہ رہنے والی سوغات ہے۔ اس کے علاوہ انہوں نے ایک کتاب This Law of Ours بھی تحریر کی۔
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The Guidance

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Introduction:
It is said that human is a thinking, rational animal. He knows what is right and what is wrong, so does he need some additional source of Guidance? Some say ‘No’, while others say ‘Yes’ and still there are who say ‘I Don’t know’. This book "Guidance" tends to explain the different modes of guidance available to humanity.
The guidance is an important constituent of the process of creation, trial, justice and reward. God guides the humanity through different means. Firstly; Much earlier than the creation of humanity, God first created all the spirits of humanity, which testified Him to be their Lord, this was the 1st Covenant, then they were put to sleep. He brings the humankind into this world in succession, each at appointed time, spirit is breathed in to him, true nature (hanefa fitr’ah), the ‘First Covenant’ is part of human consciousness. This is the reason that even some of African tribes cut off from the civilized world worship One God without images. However majority of human, under the influence of Satan, are caught in the webs of customs, superstitions, selfish desires, and false teachings, thus getting deflected from the true nature. Man is endowed with instincts, forms and faculties exactly suited to what is expected of him. Through these faculties and instincts man can know about existence of God by observing His signs, thus reverting to the true nature. Finally He gives guidance, through His messengers and scriptures. The messengers convey the message, people are not coerced, they use their intellect for reason and exercise their will. Finally God has reward for those who made right choice and punishment for those who fell pray to evil.
God sent messengers to every community; some are mentioned by name in Bible and Qur’an. The message of all the massagers sent to different nations at different times had been basically same, to worship One God and follow His guidance for success in this life and hereafter. The messengers were required to convey the message only, they were not required to force the people. Allah says: “Obey Allah and obey His messenger; but if ye turn away, then the duty of Our messenger is only to convey (the message) plainly.”(Qur’an;64:12). Prophet Abraham (peace be upon him), the great patriarch asserted the strict monotheism, God chose him as a leader of the mankind after success in trials, which was conditional to the obedience of God and not applicable to the evil doers among his progeny. His son Ishmael and Isaac were granted prophethood. After Abraham God continuously appointed messengers like Ishmael, Isaac his son Jacob (also known as Israel and his decedents as Israelites or Children of Israel), Joseph, Moses, Elisha, David, Solomon up to Prophet Jesus (peace be upon them all) being the last among Israelites.  Torah was revealed to Moses, Palms (Zabur) to David and Gospel (Injeel) to Prophet Jesus (peace be upon him) for the guidance of Israelites. These scriptures are part of Bible but in corrupted form.
The Israelites repeatedly disobeyed the commandments of God, altered the scriptures, and even killed the prophets. They did not believe in Prophet Jesus Christ (peace be upon him) and even tried to kill him, but Allah raised him to Himself. His followers deviated from the monotheism of Abraham, Jacob and Moses (peace be upon them all), invented a different religion known as Christianity based on the concepts of Original sin and Trinity, disregarding the Law. Prophet Abraham (peace be upon him) had settled his eldest son Ishmael at Makka, a deserted place which became a town on the main trade route. Prophet Ishmael (peace be upon him) became the ancestor of Arabs. His descendents also corrupted the original teachings of Abraham and Ishmael (peace be upon them), they became polytheists and Idolaters. For nearly over next 2000 years no messenger was sent to them.
 Due to the persistent disobedience and rebelliousness of the Children of Israel, and corruption of original message of God; He changed the leadership role from the Children of Israel to the Children of Ishmael (peace be upon them),  by appointing Muhammad, peace be upon him (an Arab, from the progeny of Ishmael) as His last messenger in 610 C.E. He reveled to him, Qur’an; the last book of guidance for the humanity and named the faith as Islam (surrender to will of Allah), the faith of all previous messengers.
Allah Himself took the responsibility to protect His last scripture. He says: “We have without doubt sent down the Message; and We will assuredly guard it (from corruption)”.(Qur’an;15:9);“No falsehood can approach it from before or from behind. It is a revelation from the One Who is Wise and Praiseworthy.”(Qur’an;41:42). Qur’an is the final and the Last Testament, which supercedes the Old and New Testament. Now it is obligatory for the humanity including Jews and Christians to follow the guidance of Qur’an. Many Jews and Christians have reverted to Islam while others decline. The message of truth was spread all over the world. Presently there are around 1.5 Billion Muslims in the world. Miraculously during last fourteen centuries, Qur’an is available in its original form and will continue to guide the humanity till eternity. Allah says: “Or do ye say that Abraham, Isma'il, Isaac, Jacob, and the Tribes were Jews or Christians? Say: Do ye know better than Allah? Ah! who is more unjust than those who conceal the testimony they have from Allah? But Allah is not unmindful of what ye do!”(Qur’an;2:140). While Jews and Christians claim to be heirs of Abraham, but only Muslims can strongly  claim to be followers of the true legacy of Abraham - Tawheed (monotheism).
Practical implementation of Qur’anic teachings was demonstrated by Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), which is also available in the form of the traditions of Prophet (Sunnah). After Muhammad (peace be upon him) the last messenger, Muslims are responsible for preaching of this Message to the mankind? Allah says: “We have given the Book (Qur’an) as an inheritance to those of Our servants (Muslims) whom We have chosen...”(Qur’an;35:32). At the end of his last sermon during last Hajj (632 C.E) the Prophet (peace be upon him) said:
“O’ People, no Messengers or prophet will come after me and no new faith will be born. Reason well, therefore, O’ People, and understand my words which I convey to you. I leave behind me two things, the Qur’an and my example, the Sunnah and if you follow these you will never go astray. All those who listen to me shall pass on my words to others and those to others again; and may the last ones understand my words better than those who listen to me directly.”
The custodians of the Qur’an after the holy Prophet are the People of Islam. They are chosen for the Book, not in any narrow sense, but in the sense that the Book is given for their age and they are charged to believe, read, understand, obey, preserve and propagate it, so that all mankind should receive the Message. In this present era of high-tech communications and media, with the efforts of believers this guidance is  available to the ever increasing numbers of people, who are embracing Islam in great numbers. There is no doubt that this Message will remain available to the humanity till the Day of Judgment. The legacy of Prophet Abraham (peace be upon them) continues.
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Islam: Legacy of Abraham - Broader Perspective:

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"Lo! religion with Allah (is) The Surrender (to His will and guidance). Those who (formerly) received the Scripture differed only after knowledge came unto them, through transgression among themselves. Whoso disbelieveth the revelations of Allah (will find that) Lo! Allah is swift at reckoning"[Quran;3:19] "And whoso seeketh as religion other than the Surrender (to Allah) it will not be accepted from him, and he will be a loser in the Hereafter"[Quran;3:85] "And who forsaketh the religion of Abraham save him who befooleth himself? Verily We chose him in the world, and lo! in the Hereafter he is among the righteous. When his Lord said unto him: Surrender! he said: I have surrendered to the Lord of the Worlds. The same did Abraham enjoin upon his sons, and also Jacob, (saying): O my sons! Lo! Allah hath chosen for you the (true) religion; therefore die not save as men who have surrendered (unto Him). Or were ye present when death came to Jacob, when he said unto his sons: What will ye worship after me? They said: We shall worship thy God, the God of thy fathers, Abraham and Ishmael and Isaac, One God, and unto Him we have surrendered.[Quran:2:130-134]"And they say: Be Jews or Christians, then ye will be rightly guided. Say (unto them, O Muhammad): Nay, but (we follow) the religion of Abraham, the upright, and he was not of the idolaters. (Muslims): We believe in Allah and that which is revealed unto us and that whichas revealed unto Abraham, and Ishmael, and Isaac, and Jacob, and the tribes, and that which Moses and Jesus received, and that which the Prophets received from their Lord. We make no distinction between any of them, and unto Him we have surrendered"[Quran;2:135-136]

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