Category:Prophets

Prophets (Arabic الأنبياء) in Islam are men who Allah chose to tell people to worship one God and invite them to Islam. Islam teaches all of God's prophets were Muslims. Prophets were sent to guide mankind to the right path. In Islam, all prophets were given believe in One God, Hereafter, & the Last Day. Messengers in Islam were given revelations from Allah. In Islam there were a total of 300 messengers & 240,000 prophets according to ahadith. The Qur'an only mentions 25 prophets.

Etymology
In both Arabic and Hebrew,[4] the term nabī (plural forms: nabiyyūn and anbiyāʾ) means "prophet". Forms of this noun occur 75 times in the Quran. The term nubuwwah (meaning "prophethood") occurs five times in the Quran. The terms rasūl (plural: rusul) and mursal (plural: mursalūn) denote “messenger” or "apostle" and occur more than 300 times. The term for a prophetic “message”, risāla (plural: risālāt) appears in the Quran in ten instances.[5]

The Syriac form of rasūl Allāh (literally: "messenger of God"), s̲h̲eliḥeh d-allāhā, occurs frequently in the apocryphal  Acts of St. Thomas . The corresponding verb for s̲h̲eliḥeh — s̲h̲alaḥ, occurs in connection with the prophets in the Hebrew Bible.[6] [7] [8] [9]

The words "prophet" (Arabic: نبي nabī ) and "messenger" (Arabic: رسول rasūl, ) appear several times in the Old Testament and the New Testament.

The following table shows these words in different languages:

Difference between Prophets & Messengers
While Prophets and Messengers were sent to Guide mankind, there are differences betweent them. Prophets were sent to guide mankind. Messengers came with a revelation from God. The messengers in Islam are Adam, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Ishmail, Jesus, and the last and final messenger Muhammad. In Islam the books revealed were the Scrolls of Adam, Torah, Scrolls of Abraham, Psalms, Gospel, and the Qur'an.