Questioner: In the Holy Quran, it is mentioned that Allah Ta’ala has sent prophets among all the nations in the world. There have been some law-bearing prophets, for example, Hazrat Moses(AS) and the Holy Prophet(SAW). Others have been non-law-bearing prophets. I shall be most grateful ifHuzoor most kindly advises us who were the law-bearing prophets mentioned in the Holy Quran, apart from the prophets mentioned above.
Huzoor (rh): Above you mean Hazrat Rasool-e-Karim (SAW) and Hazrat Moses. Hazrat Ibrahim (AS), according to my interpretation of the Holy Quran, was a law-bearing prophet. Before him, Hazrat Nuh was a law-bearing prophet. And before him, Hazrat Adam (AS) was the first law-bearing prophet. These five are positively law-bearing. Hazrat Ibrahim (AS) has two positions. One, before the age of Hazrat Nuh’s Sharia was over, that was 950 years since it came, Hazrat Ibrahim lived 50 years of his life, during his Sharia. So, wa min shiyatihi Ibrahim refers to that. In the first period of Hazrat Ibrahim’s life, he followed the Sharia of Hazrat Nuh. After that, law was given unto him. This is why the Holy Quran repeatedly refers to his deen. And all his progeny is also mentioned to be following his deen, Ibrahim’s deen. It doesn’t go farther beyond it. So, from that I can infer that about if the dates are correct, as recorded by history, and if they tell exactly with the Holy Quran’s version of 950 years of Nuh’s Sharia, then Hazrat Ibrahim was revealed a new Sharia at about the age of 50. From then on, he was on his own. So, these are the five law-bearing prophets of which we read the account in the Holy Quran. But in other regions of the world, different laws came. And for instance, in India, it seems that Hazrat Ram was the law-bearing prophet. And Hazrat Krishan came in the law of Hazrat Ram, Ramchandra. And in China, Hazrat Confucius seems to be the law-bearing prophet. Before him also, there might have come some, or many, but we don’t know. Hazrat Confucius, I have read his books, his teachings, and I know he was a regular prophet of Allah and a law-bearing prophet as well, for that matter. So, also in other regions, if you search, you would come across some law which was revealed to a prophet of God.
