What's the difference between prophets and messengers?

So, for the next 20 minutes, we're going to be picking up where we left off last time we met. The youngsters we were discussing the narration of Jibril. And in this narration, one of the great companions of the prophet Sallallahu alaihi wasallam tells us of an incident that happened. His name is Omar ibn al-Khattab. He said that while we were seated with the prophet Sallallahu alaihi wasallam one night, a man came into masjid one day. And he had very, very white clothing. He had very, very black hair. And he asked about a few things regarding Islam. He asked, "What is Islam?" He asked, "What is Iman?" And he asked, "What is Ihsan?" Now, our prophet he responded. And he told him what Islam was. He told him the five pillars of Islam that we already covered. And then he told him about the six pillars of Iman. The six pillars of faith or belief. Who remembers what the first pillar is? Maryam. Belief in Allah, very good. What is the second pillar? Tell me. Belief in the angels. Spot on. Number three, tell me. Mhm, you missed you missed something. Tell me. Belief in his books, very good. We stopped there, didn't we? Belief in his books, right? Okay. I'm going to tell you something. I want you to memorize this. Every single messenger has a book. Everyone. Do you know how many messengers were sent to humanity? I didn't tell you guys this yet. I'm wondering if you guys know how many messengers were sent. Whoever was with me last Sunday in the weekend school should know this answer. How many messengers were sent to humanity? Messengers. Tell me. No. Maryam. No. Tell me. Rital, huh? 99, no. That's not it. No. You missed the number before 15. -huh. No. Silly goose, there's a number before 15. Tell me. No. Mhm. No. Rital. No. Okay, listen. I'm going to tell you the answer. 315. You already know this. You should already know this. Some of the other little ankle biters should know this. 315. So, there are how many messengers? Now, I didn't say prophets. I said messengers. There's a difference. How many messengers, Maryam? 315. Messengers. Which one was the first one? It was Noah. Which one was the last one? Yes?

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Very good. So, we know that there are at least 315 books. Maybe more. There's no reason a messenger can't be given more than one book. But, at least there were how many books? 315. Okay. Now, out of all those 315 books, five of them are mentioned in the Quran. Five. Five books are mentioned in the Quran. What are the names of these books? Let's see who knows. The Quran, obviously. That's one. That's self-evident. Number two. The Torah. Very good. Number three. Al Injil. Very good. Number four. It was a book that was given to Dawud alayhi salaam. Tell me, Hussam. Az-Zabur. Very good. Very good. Now, number five. Who can tell me number five? If you tell me number five, it'll knock my socks off. If you tell me number five, I'll quit my job, leave town, and never come back again.

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Which one is it? Listen closely. I'm going to give you the answer. You want to know the answer so that when we're giving out prizes for answers, you know the answer to unlock the candy or whatever it is. It is the Suhuf of Ibrahim. Suhuf, you know what Suhuf means? Suhuf is Arabic for the pages of Ibrahim. The scrolls of Ibrahim. So it is the the scrolls of Ibrahim. So the Quran was given to who?

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The Injil was given to who? This this row of little guys, come here. Come sit here. Come up front. Come come. No, not you. You you could stay where you are. These guys back here. Stand up. Stand. -huh. Come sit on this line right here in front of me. Yes. One more. One more line. Come on, guys. Sit right here. Yeah. Sit right here. Button your shirt up. What's going on here? You taking your clothes off? Button your shirt up. Button it up. Sit right there. Okay? You sit right here. Come. Sit right here. Very good. What's up with everybody unbuttoning their clothes? What about you? Button your clothes up. Okay. The Quran was given to who?

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The Taurat was given to who, Maryam? Musa alayhis salaam. The Injil was given to who? La. Try again. The Injil was given to I- Isa. Okay. And the Zabur was given to who, Hussam? Dawud. Very good. And what is the last one, Maryam? Suhuf Ibrahim, which means what in English? The pages. It also means what? Scrolls. You guys know what a scroll is? Yeah, you roll it up. It's in you know, you see in the video games or the movies. Right? Okay.

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We know where they came from. We know who gave them to them. But we don't know the other books.

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But what we knew what we do know, and this is very important. All of the important meanings that are in those other books are all in the Quran. So if you want to read all the books, read all the important stuff that you need to know, do you have to read any of the other books? You just have to read the Quran. It has all the meanings that are important to us in that one book. So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala sent these books down. And each book has its own thing. for instance, the the Torah, Allah wrote the Torah with his own hand. Subhanahu wa ta'ala. Allah wrote the Torah himself. Gave it to you. Who? Mhm. Musa alayhis salaam. Very good. The Injil was given to Isa. But the Injil was really a continuation of the Torah. You know what a continuation means? You have Torah is one. volume one. And the Injil is volume two. They finish each other. Both of those two, they make a whole. And between those two was a Zabur. Okay. What is the next pillar of belief, pillar of faith? We said belief in Allah, belief in the angels, belief in the books, belief in the.

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Right? Khalil and Yusuf. Come on up. Sit right here, big tough guys.

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One there and one right next to him. Yes. Front and center. Come over here, sit next to him there. We only got about 5 minutes left. Okay. Now, how many messengers were there? 315. Now, listen to how many prophets there were. Do you know? No. You're not even close. You're off by about Oh, more than 120,000. Tell me.

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Is that a lot of messengers? That's a lot of prophets, right? 124,000. So, if there was only 315 messengers, but 124,000 prophets, that means that there must be a difference between prophets and messengers, right? Okay. I'm going to tell you the difference right now. There's a lot of differences, but the main difference, listen closely. The main difference between a prophet and a messenger is messengers are sent to people that worship idols. People that do not believe in Allah, or if they believe in Allah, they worship other things. They worship the sun, they worship the moon, they worship statues, they worship saints, they worship the angels, they worship the jinn, they worship devils. All kinds of people worship all kinds of things. And if people are not Muslim at all, and they worship other than Allah, Allah sends what to them?

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Messenger. He sends a messenger to them. But prophets prophets is different. Prophets are sent all throughout They're sent to to people that believe in Allah. People that already follow messengers. Do you understand? So, Musa Alayhis Salaam was a messenger and then when people believed in him, prophets were sent to lead after he died. Different prophets were sent to lead Bani Israel. Do you understand the difference? How many messengers, Yusuf? 15. How many prophets? That's a very strange number. Where did you get that number, my son? Tell me. 124,000. That means 1 2 4 0 0 0. 124,000. Okay. What is the next pillar of faith? We got about 4 more minutes. Who can tell me? Yes. It's belief in a certain kind of day. Belief in a certain kind of day. Tell me. No. Belief in Yeah. The day of judgement. The last day. You know what it means? The day of judgement is just it sounds like. Hey, sit up. You want me to get you a pillow and a blanket? Sit. Sit. Sit. belief in the day of judgement means that after we all die everybody here is going to die eventually. Everyone you've ever met is going to eventually die. Just people that were before us, they died. And the people that come after us, they're going to die. Because dying is part of living as a human, right? It's part of our life. Imagine if there was no death. You just live forever on Earth. Exactly. Your your life wouldn't have any meaning anymore. You wouldn't have any meaning. It wouldn't matter if you got Imagine if it never rained outside and it was sunny and beautiful and perfect every single day. What would happen? Huh? No, I mean if it if it was beautiful outside every day, perfect weather, perfect. What would happen?

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You'd never even be able to appreciate the nice days. If you never knew what it was to be sick, would you ever be happy and thankful that you're healthy? No, because you don't even know what it means to be sick or healthy. You have to have the opposite. Winter makes summer nice. Unless you're in Arizona, in which case summer makes winter nice, right? Rain makes the sun shine nice. And cold makes warmth nice, right? Hunger makes your food taste good. Doesn't it? Thirst makes water taste good. Doesn't it? Makes it feel nice when you drink it. Imagine if you drank water and you never felt thirsty ever. You'd never be able to enjoy it. Imagine if you never got hungry. Would you ever enjoy your food? No. And the same thing goes with death. Death is not a bad thing. Death is what makes your life meaningful. Death is what makes your life good. It's what makes you.

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Have to die. Now, after we all die and we're all in our graves, we are all going to be brought out of our graves and brought back to life. And then we're going to come in front of Allah one by one. Each person one by one. And we're going to be judged by Allah for the things that we do. And that is why it's called the day of what?

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Judgement. The day of what? Speak. Yes. Judgement. It's the day of what? Judgement. Judgement. The day of what? Judgement. What's it called? The day of judgement. The day of what? -huh. The day of what? What's it called, Hussam? The day of judgement when Allah judges us all. And nobody's going to be there with you to help you. Your mom, your dad, they got to get judged, too. You can't help them and they can't help you. Who's the only one that can help you on the day of judgement? Tell me. Allah is the only one that can help you on the day of judgement. And we're going to stop right there. You guys are starting to wiggle around you got ants in your pants. So, we're going to stop there and I will see you guys next week. Make sure that you read the narration before you come. Have mom and dad read it to you before you come. You understand? Okay, guys. See you later. See you next time.

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