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THE PROPHET JESUS (AS) WILL RETURN
accepted from him, and in the Hereafter he will be
among the losers." (Surah Al 'Imran: 84-85)

These verses indicate that the right way revealed to man is
Islam and that all the prophets summoned their peoples to a
common way.
In another verse Allah ordains: "… I am pleased with Islam
as a religion (deen) for you!" (Surat al-Ma'ida: 3). Allah sent His
messengers to convey this religion, the one He is pleased with, to
their peoples and thus warn mankind. Each person, to whom
Allah's message is conveyed, and who is thus summoned to this
religion is held responsible for adhering to it.
However, some societies have accepted the message while
others have denied it. In some societies, on the other hand, the
right way has degenerated into perverted beliefs after the death
of their messenger. This is related in the Qur'an as follows:
The Religion with Allah is Islam. Those given the Book
only differed after knowledge had come to them, envy-
ing one another. As for those who reject Allah's Signs,

Allah is swift at reckoning. (Surah Al 'Imran: 19)
One of the societies that went astray after following the
right way for a while was a section of the Children of Israel (Bani
Isra'il). As the Qur'an informs us, Allah sent many prophets to
the Children of Israel and informed them about the right way.
Yet, each time some of them revolted against a prophet or, after
the death of a prophet, they transformed the right way into a set
of perverted beliefs. Furthermore, from the Qur'an we know that
even when the Prophet Moses (as) was still alive, some among
the Children of Israel worshipped the golden calf during his
short absence (See Surah Ta Ha: 83-94). After the death of the