Omar Suleiman

It's something that resonates with a professor at an Ivy League university and a person who

maybe even illiterate, this idea of one God that sent many prophets and all of the prophets had a singular message, worship one God and respond to the messages of that one God through his messengers.

So Adam through Muhammad, you have many of the prophets that are mentioned in the Old Testament, Moses, peace be upon him, being the most spoken about prophet in the Quran.

In fact, Abraham, Jesus, peace be upon him,

many of these prophets that are familiar to people, all of them are considered prophets in Islam, the prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, being the last of them.

He comes at a time where there was still a lot of confusion about what the world had just encountered in Christ, in Jesus Christ, peace be upon him.

So you gotta think about it this way, that this is still, you know, he's born in the sixth century.

There is still great debate about who Jesus was.

The Council of Nicaea happens in the 4th century, where you kind of have a standardizing of Western Christianity, but then you have Eastern Christians that are still maintaining very different theologies and very different conceptions of Christ.

There is no Arabic Bible at the time, and he kind of brings together

the message and the mission of all of those prophets, and it fits perfectly into a singular string of thought where you don't have to reject Jesus, peace be upon him, but Islam also is staunchly opposed to the idea of a trinity, the idea of a begotten son of God.

That all of the conceptions of the Messiah, and there were many claimants of the Messiah prior to Christ, peace be upon him, none of them included an idea of a trinity or of him actually being a part of God himself, a begotten son of God, but rather a great and mighty prophet.

that would restore glory on earth.

So he really captures theologically, or rather we would say God captures through him theologically, a coherence and a unifying message of all of the prophets

that there's only one God and that that God has sent messages and scriptures to ultimately guide people back towards him.

And that all of the prophets are equal in the sight of God.

There's no distinction between them.

And that we are to live our lives in accordance with the message as best manifested by the messenger.

And so the prophets are exemplary human beings.

And this is where we kind of sometimes maybe have