PROPHETHOOD

Prophethood ~ 67 ~ outstanding human being but to be the true Prophet of God. What is even more important is that the Prophet’s success laid the ground work for the permanent preservation of the religion he brought. The triumph of his progress made it possible for his followers to found an empire extending over a vast area, and this in itself ensured the perpetuity of the Prophet’s religion. It is truly remarkable that fourteen hundred years have elapsed since the coming of the Prophet without his religion having been altered in the slightest way. It has been preserved in all its purity, exactly in the form in which the Prophet presented it to the world. In the past, the need for a new Prophet had always arisen because God’s religion, suffering from the vagaries of time had been frequently distorted from its original form. In ancient times, the nations who had been entrusted with the guardianship of the Divine Scriptures repeatedly betrayed that trust, allowing the Book of God to be laid waste. New Prophets, therefore, had to come to the world time and time again in order to revivify the true spirit of religion and to re-introduce its teachings in their true form