The Messengers and the Messages (Vol. 4)

The Messengers and the Messages by Dr. ’Umar Sulaiman al-Ashqar is Volume 4 of the Islamic Creed Series, and it makes the case that every prophet Allah sent, to every nation, carried a single message: Tawheed, worship of Allah alone, paired with laws suited to that people and time.

What the Book Covers

Al-Ashqar traces how the messages entrusted to earlier prophets were left in the hands of priests and rabbis who, over generations, failed to preserve them — concealing, altering or losing parts of what had been revealed, until Allah sent His final Messenger ﷺ with the Message meant for every nation this time, and guaranteed its preservation Himself until the Day of Resurrection. Working primarily from the Qur’an and Hadith, and citing the Bible and other scriptures directly to show the continuity of the message across revelations, the book makes the argument rather than simply asserting it.

Who This Book Is For

Readers who want to understand what ties every prophet’s mission together, and why Muslims hold the Qur’an’s preservation to be different in kind from the scriptures that came before it.

The Islamic Creed Series

This is Volume 4 of the eight-volume Islamic Creed Series by Dr. ’Umar Sulaiman al-Ashqar, each volume a self-contained study of one part of Islamic belief, drawn from the Qur’an and Sunnah:

All eight volumes are also sold together in the Islamic Creed Series 8-Book Set.