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WISDOM AND SOUND ADVICE FROM THE TORAH






                     In the hadith, Prophet Muhammad (may God bless him and
                     grant him peace) tells us that the Sunnah of all the prophets
                     and messengers are very similar to one another.

                     God reveals in the Qur'an that all the prophets have been
                     descended from the same family line, and have had the
                     same belief and moral virtues:

                     This is the argument We gave to Abraham against his peo-
                     ple. We raise in rank anyone We will. Your Lord is All-Wise,
                     All-Knowing. We gave him Isaac and Jacob, each of whom
                     We guided. And before him We had guided Noah. And
                     among his descendants were David and Solomon, and Job,
                     Joseph, Moses and Aaron. That is how We recompense the

                     good-doers. And Zachariah, John, Jesus and Elijah. All of
                     them were among the righteous. And Ishmael, Isaiah, Jonah
                     and Lot. All of them We favored over all beings. And some
                     of their forebears, descendants and brothers; We chose them
                     and guided them to a straight path. That is Allah's guidance.
                     He guides by it those of His servants He wills. If they had
                     associated others with Him, nothing they did would have
                     been of any use. They are the ones to whom We gave the
                     Book, Judgment and prophethood. If these people reject it
                     We have already entrusted it to a people who did not. (Surat
                     al-An'am, 83-89)

                     Those are some of the prophets Allah has blessed, from the

                     descendants of Adam and from those We carried with Noah,
                     and from the descendants of Abraham and Israel and from
                     those We guided and chose. When the signs of the All-Mer-
                     ciful were recited to them they fell on their faces, weeping,
                     in prostration. (Surah Maryam, 58)






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