Why didst Thou not send to us an apostle...

Why didst Thou not send to us an apostle, for then we should have followed Thy communications before that we met disgrace and shame. (20:134) *** *** Arguments would not have been completed for them with evidence. Is man’s need of a guide less than the arching of eyebrows? Shaykh Abu Ali Sina explicates man’s need of prophets. He says, “Man’s need of a divine messenger is greater than the jutting out of eyebrows. Let us try to find even one person whose eyebrows do not jut out.

Besides beautification of face, the arching of eyebrows serves as a drain for the forehead perspiration so that there may be no damage to eyes.

Moreover, it is a shade, saving eyes from brightness of light (it controls light falling on eyes).” Then he says, “When God does not overlook a need like this, how would He neglect the matter of sending guides for man?” But if they say an angel should be sent to guide man and that as he would not be a human being, they would follow him without reservations and thus it would be the completion of argument for all, the Quran’s response is as follows: And if We had made him angel, We would certainly have made him a man, and We would certainly have made confused to them what they make confused.

(6:9) *** *** The messenger must be a human being so that he may sit with them and speak to them. If he is not from the human race he will have no resemblance with man. That is why He says, “Had We wished We would have sent an angel as a guide.

But then too he would be necessarily sent in the form of a human being and We would have given him a human face and form and dressed him like humans.” Acceptance without seeing is more important At another place Allah says, “If We send an angel in his original form and style and appoint him a guide for men, all of them would die.” And they say: Why has not an angel been sent down to him?

And had We sent down an angel, the matter would have certainly been decided and then they would not have been respited. (6:8) *** *** The Unseen World has predominance over this world and the angel is from the other world. The Angel belongs to the world of incorporeal beings. How can he be sent for you? If he comes with the same corporeal attributes to the world then there is no such world. Secondly, if an angel appears here it would be visible.

What is needed is that one should put faith in the Unseen.