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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Investigations And Challenges Chapter 16: Faith as the Essence of Invitation of the Prophets (Part 1) The subject of the discussion is: Faith as the Essence of the Invitation of the Prophets ( ‘a ). In order to clarify the subject, its importance and the pertinent discussions to be made, we shall make a short introduction: Introduction The emergence of the prophets is recognized as a historical event throughout the thousands of years of human history.

Of course, among them there have been false claimants to prophethood and forgers of religion who presented fake goods in this sphere and concocted “heavenly scriptures and religions.” In spite of this, among the claimants to prophethood throughout history, there have been certainly tens of thousands of worthy people who had been truly chosen for the prophethood by God the Exalted.

Based on what is mentioned in the narrations of the ( ‘a ), there were 124.000 prophets, out of whom only twenty-four are mentioned in the Holy Qur’an and an equally very few numbers are mentioned by name in the Islamic narrations. Therefore, regarding most of these divine prophets ( ‘a ) apart from having no information about their life accounts, we do not even know their names.

Now, concerning this historical trend which had always surfaced in human life as shown by history and as authentic religious sources show, this question is posed: What is the cause of emergence of this trend and what objective had the divine prophets ( ‘a ) been trying to attain? Had all the prophets the same axis for their invitation, or each of them had his specific aim? Have there been any comparisons and contradictions between the prophets’ objectives and promulgations for the religion?

Those who have materialistic inclinations and explain the philosophy of history based on the historical materialism have their own specific interpretation of the emergence of this historical trend. You may also remember how some Marxist groups existing in our country prior to the Revolution used to interpret the emergence of the prophets ( ‘a ) and their call. They believed in certain stages of history, regarding contradiction as the essence of all historical movements.

Accordingly, they used to present the origin of the emergence of the prophets in the scene of history as a kind of class struggle.