Islam Guidance

Verse163

(163) إِنَّا أَوْحَيْنَا إِلَيْكَ كَمَا أَوْحَيْنَا إِلَى نُوحٍ وَالنَّبِيِّينَ مِن بَعْدِهِ وَأَوْحَيْنَا إِلَى إِبْرَاهِيمَ وَ

إِسْمَاعِيلَ وَإْسْحَقَ وَيَعْقُوبَ وَالأَسْبَاطِ وَعِيسَى وَأَيُّوبَ وَيُونُسَ وَهَارُونَ وَسُلَيْمَانَ وَآتَيْنَا دَاوُودَ زَبُورًا

Section 23
The Qur'an testified in the previous heavenly Books
Heavenly Books were revealed to the previous messengers - The disbelievers - The truth about the personality of Jesus
163. " Verily We revealed to you as We revealed to Noah and the prophets after him, and We (also) revealed to Abraham and Ishmael and Isac and Jacob and the Tribes, and Jesus and Job and Jonoh and Aaron, and Solomon, and We gave to David the Psalms."
Commentary:
The names of twenty five prophets of Allah have been mentioned in the Qur'an. Eleven names of these prophets are referred to in the verse under discussion, and the rest of them are: 'Adam, Andreas, Hud, Salih, Lot, Yusuf (Joseph), Shu'aib (Jethro), Thilkafl, Moses, Elyas (Elija), Yasa' (Elisha), Zakaria (Zachariah), Yahya (John), and 'Uzair (Ezra).

Some Islamic recorded traditions denote that whatever had been revealed to the former prophets (a.s.) were revealed to Prophet Muhammad (p.b.u.h.), too.(1)
The Qur'anic term /asbat/ is a title for those prophets who are the children of Ya'qub (Jacob).
The word /zabur/ in philology means ' book ', but, as a technical term, it is used for David's Book. Psalms of David can be found in the Books of the Old Testement, containing of 150 Chapters, each of which is a Psalm. (p.p. 606 to 681 of the Holy Bible). Here is the verse:
" Verily We revealed to you as We revealed to Noah and the prophets after him, and We (also) revealed to Abraham and Ishmael and Isac and Jacob and the Tribes, and Jesus and Job and Jonoh and Aaron, and Solomon, and We gave to David the Psalms."
Allah sent down revelations to all prophets one after another. But here, in this regard, before mentioning the names of some other prophets, Allah says: " We revealed to you ". This precdence may be for the superiority of the holy Prophet's rank.
Explanations:
1- In the history of man, revelation and Messengership has been an unalterable process and rule.
2- In revelation both aim, and style, and the generality of the content, and the origin of them, wholly is the same; and that origin is Allah.
" Verily We revealed ..."
3- The divine revelations unto the prophets have repeatedly occurred in the history. Yet, why do the oponents of prophethood not accept the Prophet of Islam (p.b.u.h.) and do differ between him and other prophets? Such people are certainly astray.

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