Was the World Created for the Prophet?
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'Peace,
Who says it is allegorical? I talk to you through this post as much if i would have stood in front of you. Writing doesn't make any less 'talking' as i had used my voice. And your interpretation is based on a personal interpretation which i don't agree with, as there is a much more logical approach to this verse. So this verse is no direct proof at all, only if you follow your interpretation, then yes. But it is no conclusive proof.
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And do not think Allah to be heedless of what the unjust do; He only respites them to a day on which the eyes shall be fixedly open,
Note unjust = dholim = musyreek, who abides to other laws than His.
And your Lord never destroyed the country until He raised in their metropolis an apostle, reciting to them Our communications, and We never destroyed the towns except when their people were unjust.
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Peace Arnold,
Your refs from another Scriptures (Mark 1229,30, Yayur Veda 4017, Gatha's 17) are all in the form of monologues and yet to be seen is the reply from the receivers of the message. God commands mankind to do so and so. period. But this has to be distinguished from what Q7172(dialogue) is telling us.
There's a distinct difference between witnessing/believing in God's revelations and witnessing God Himself. In Q7172, whether you are 1 month, 1 year, 10 years or 100 years old (every children of Adam) they all have witnessed this. Immaterial even if you are born in deep jungle and left alone until your death. And by your understanding of witnessing God through Scriptures, are this group of people (that hasn't got the chance to read the scriptures) are not the Children of Adam?
Appreciate for your further clarification.
Peace.
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Peace,
When experiencing this creation, most people when thinking enough, will see a single source. The universe itself is a conversation between us and God in which He says I'm your Rabb. And by witnessing it, we say We are witnessing it. This is perfectly told in the story of Abraham, where through observing Reality, he came to the conclusion that God is the only Rabb. As for societies who haven't had a scripture prophet, please read this
"The early man had little knowledge how nature worked and why, except what he himself could experience, out of this the feeling of mystery must have emerged. The feeling there is a true reality behind this life. This is how the concept of divinity, of the transcendent, a universal Good, bigger that the human and nature, a source of nurture, a ruler on destiny. This concept of power, of a Creator, in the sense of that is everything, a power of the higher and this reality must have come about. In our language it resembles the Transcendent and Immanent. If this can be seen as 1 God, as most researchers think, can not be proven of course. But it is certainly true, that in our days, with the cultures who don't use writing, and resembles early man in a lot of ways, like the use of oral tradition. That with these cultures, it is a common believe that there is only one highest god, one creator, and next to this god, they have to deal with lower spiritual beings as totems, cultural heroes, ancestors and local gods. But this god, sticks out with head and shoulders above all of these lower powers. For most it is a vague, and and incomprehensible power. That in their eyes doesn't intervene in daily life. So this is why they use their idols to ask help. When cultures grew, this aminism developed into polytheism. But in the background, this highest god always remained, although it was ignored. This faith, or rather understanding developed back in to monotheism as it is to be found in the scriptual faiths of today. So after a long route the highest power always prevailed. The concept of religion, has to be traced back in the faith of a holy power that goes beyond this universe, and supports it. It could be that this wasn't given no form, and stayed a vague term of providence, as a creating and recreating force, working in food, sex, fertility, birth, death and the changing of seasons. When this view, that this force exists, found it's own life in different aspects and functions, this developed into spirits, ghosts and idols, with each its own tasks.
It reappearing throughout the whole history of mankind. The remerging of faith in every fase of cultures and religions since prehistoric times, gives a clear indication that it is something that is a spontaneous part of man itself. It is an expression of a feeling and thinking man is born with, not so much an outcome of observation and knowledge of the universe and nature. Without a doubt did this develope into the monotheisms of today, in the God as only creator and sustainer of all things. Far from that polytheism developed into monotheism, does the evidence show that the concept and knowledge of the universe, while it grew developed different gods and powers over time, while the highest being turned into a vague figure, that didn't intervene, and was hidden in the mists of animism and polytheism and the absolutism of Hinduism and in the far east." Gerben J.F. Bouritius Lector in the fenomology of religions and faiths of the Theological Faculty in TilburgThe concept of one God can be found with 99% of all cultures on earth. Although His importance of position in their faith is different with every culture. He is acknowledged as the only true Rabb by almost all cultures on earth. When studying traditions of even the most remote culture, the Creator single over-all ruler God is always present.
As for the verses i gave from other scriptures, i just picked some here and there. I can look up many in the single person where God directly speaks to mankind. But it is not only through revelation. The universe itself is a conversation between God and mankind.