His Wife Eve, Not His Rib, Supported Prophet Adam – OpEd |
For thousands of generations before Adam and Eve all the religions on Planet Earth were human made and polytheistic. From Adam and Eve onwards, all prophets sent by the one and only God to guide humans, were opposed to the worship of idols and submitted only to this one God.
However, in the thousands of years between Prophet Adam and Prophet Abraham, Allah sent thousands of prophets to thousands of tribes and nations on the earth, and not one of them were able to establish an ongoing, imageless, monotheistic community.
“The people of Noah denied before them, and the companions of the well and Thamūd; and ʿAad and Pharaoh and the brothers [neighbors] of Lot; and the companions of the forest, and the people of Tubbaʿ. All denied the messengers [Allah sent] so My threat was justly fulfilled.” [50:12-14]
Since there are over 7.000 languages now spoken in the world, and another 10-20,000 that were spoken over the previous 10,000 years and then died out, all human societies have have been taught the way God wants each of them to conduct their Divine worship (Qur’an 21:25), and the moral behavioral rules they should observe (Qur’an 16:90-92)
So Allah decided to do things in a different way; and Allah decided to make a covenant with a small tribe, and send hundreds of his prophets to this small tribe and worked continually for centuries with the people of this tribe until they were able to establish an ongoing community that would always have a core of righteous and loyal believers.
It is narrated from Abu Dharr that once he asked the Messenger of Allah: How many prophets are there in all? He........