We
must try now to understand why the need arose for God to communicate
with man through His prophets. This has to be examined in
the context of the sources of human knowledge. At
the preliminary stage we gain knowledge through empirical
observation. At higher levels comes deductive reasoning accompanied
by scientific investigation.
For
the past weeks we have been mentioning the changes the Jews
made to their calendar to make it into what they now follow.
We proved that the Jews learnt and adopted Babylonian
customs during the Babylonian captivity. They have incorporated
into their calendar month names of Babylonian origin. The
Jews are well known throughout the bible for rebelling against
the word of God.
For
the first time by Muhammad who should not, for this reason,
be called the founder of Islam. The Qur’an
makes it abundantly clear that Islam - the complete submission
of man before God - is the one and only faith consistently
revealed by God to mankind from the very beginning. Noah,
Ibrahim, Moses and Christ - prophets who appeared at different
times and places - all propagated the same faith.
We
must try now to understand why the need arose for God to communicate
with man through His prophets. This has to be examined in
the context of the sources of human knowledge. At
the preliminary stage we gain knowledge through empirical
observation. At higher levels comes deductive reasoning accompanied
by scientific investigation. 
For
the past weeks we have been mentioning the changes the Jews
made to their calendar to make it into what they now follow.
We proved that the Jews learnt and adopted Babylonian
customs during the Babylonian captivity. They have incorporated
into their calendar month names of Babylonian origin. The
Jews are well known throughout the bible for rebelling against
the word of God. 
For
the first time by Muhammad who should not, for this reason,
be called the founder of Islam. The Qur’an
makes it abundantly clear that Islam - the complete submission
of man before God - is the one and only faith consistently
revealed by God to mankind from the very beginning. Noah,
Ibrahim, Moses and Christ - prophets who appeared at different
times and places - all propagated the same faith.
