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HARUN YAHYA (ADNAN OKTAR)
The Qur'an is the final revelation from Allah, and will
remain until the Day of Judgment. Although the Torah and
the Gospel were true scriptures at the time they were
revealed, they have lost the quality of their authenticity,
because of the reasons explained earlier. Allah informs us
that, in His Sight, Islam is the only religion:
If anyone desires anything other than Islam as a
religion, it will not be accepted from him, and in the
hereafter he will be among the losers. (Surah Al 'Imran:
85)
BELIEF IN THE BOOKS REVEALED BY ALLAH AND
BELIEF IN HIS MESSENGERS
Since the time the Prophet Adam (pbuh) was sent to the
earth, Allah has sent messengers to every nation, to
communicate to them the existence of Allah and the
hereafter, and to convey the Divine message. Some of these
messengers are those prophets whose names are stated in the
Qur'an and to whom books were revealed. A Muslim must
not discriminate between them, but respect them all equally,
since they were all prophets of the true religion. Allah
commands Muslims to believe in all the prophets, without
making distinction:
Say, "We believe in Allah and what has been sent down
to us and what was sent down to Abraham and Ishmael
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