The Purpose of Sending the Prophets

The Purpose of Sending the Prophets beings should be told what they could not otherwise know. In this life, a person appears to be free. This results in the misunderstanding that he will not be taken to task for his misdeeds. In the present world, a person lives for a period of time and then dies. This makes people think that human life extends just from birth to death, and does not go further than that. To tell a person that this supposition was wrong, God sent revelations through prophets continuously, in every age and in every nation, until the Prophet Muhammad was born: he was the last of the prophets. Now he is the source of divine guidance till Doomsday. These prophetic tidings mean that a person in the present world is not entirely free to do what he wants to do, that he has to follow God’s commands as conveyed by the prophets in his life’s affairs. God, after giving this information has not just left a person to his own resources: He is constantly watching him. After death all human beings will return to God and then, according to the records of their worldly deeds, they will be rewarded or punished. For a person’s guidance, the real importance is not that of the mere existence of a living Prophet but the