The Crossroads

The reason for sending all the previous prophets including Moses and Jesus one after the other was that the religion needed to be returned to its original purity after the introduction of innovations and deviations by its adherents. For this reason the Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him, was sent after Jesus. He came with the same pillars of faith, and God revealed to him the Quran which contains eternal principles for mans individual and collective life. Because, by Divine Decree the Quran is, above all scriptures, preserved absolutely and permanently, the Prophet Muhammad is the Last of the Messengers. No other is needed by mankind and, by God, no other will be sent. Unlike any other religion Islam honours the religious experience of mankind before itself, because slam confirms and completes what is true in the religions before it. This is expressed by Muslim's saying that, for example, the Prophet Abraham was a Muslim. This is why Islamic civilization was, from the outset, tolerant, plural, inclusive regarding the whole of mankind as its proper constituency-and why, with the rarest exceptions has always remained so.
(Arka Kapak)