User:AenglscriptEnlight/List of Issues and Privacy Concerns about Matters Related to Prophets
This is intended to be an ongoing list open for entries posted by scholars and authorities on the subject matter; ongoing might include minimizing information, substantiated by content that may be found in the list.
Point for clarification, 'issues' in the title does not mean issues about Prophets, as many scholars may contend that there are no issues about Prophets,m and they had none, perhaps innate in Prophethood. Issues here means, issues that could arise when commentators with wrongful information attempt to facilitate misconceptions about the Prophets, such as 'Orientalists with destructive intentions' during times of war and colonization. -Limitations on lexicography considered, this article might have a revision to the title in the near future that more accurately fits the intention of its objective, which is to protect aspects of the privacy of the Prophets.
'Prophets' in this article, refers to Prophets which the Prophet Muhammad, prayers upon him and peace, referred to in his Ahadeeth, (transliteration for the plural Arabic term for Hadeeth, also spelled Hadith (1), which in this context is briefly translated as sayings and traditions of the Prophet Muhammad). Confer Prophets and messengers in Islam(2).
As this is a list of 'issues', and not so much a lean on fact, sources for the information provided on this page might not have as much of an emphasis for the issues, whereat the facts may. It is for this very reason that this Wikipedia list is being generated, because, substantiation for certain minimizations of revealing personal information and 'mysteries' about the Prophets might be relatively more difficult to find in English written literature as of the current date 2017.
As it stands today, there are multiple articles in Wikipedia that have conflicting information that regards the Prophets, whereas, it is extremely important to follows of the Faith they preached, to uphold the information presented in exactness. An instance of inconsistency is an excerpt from the article on Prophet Idris (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idris_(prophet)) which states that Muslims believe he is a third Prophet, while the Pages on Prophets in Islam, such as Prophets and messengers in Islam have no second Prophet between Idris and Adam, whereas, Seth according to some views might have been the second between Adam and Idris.
Topics and Corresponding Comments
Topic: How long did Prophets live?
Comment: There are men, such as Uzair(3), that went to sleep for 100 years, then awoke(4). How is it that time is measured in this instance? Generally speaking, there may be miracles of time that are involved with Prophets which might not conform exactly modern day linear usages and measurements of time, such as 60 minutes to an hour, 24 hours to a day, and 365 days to a year.
Topic: How many Prophets were there?
Comment: There are Ahadeeth, plural, sayings of Prophet Muhammad, about the numbers of Prophets. See 'Number of Prophets'(5).
Topic: The chronological order of Prophets
Comment: There could be matters that pertain to how the measuring of time is done, such as whether a point of reference in time began with the moment a Prophet reached or was 'conferred' Prophethood, or when he was born. In natural possibility, there could be overlaps of time measurements, when one person has received the rank of a certain degree after another person was born.
Topic: Disclosing mysteries about Prophets that are 'reserved' for scholars of high spiritual degree
Comment: The design of Wikipedia which forces scholarly substantiation behind information, has positive aspects, however, in the broader design, providing sources which make it easy for those that might not necessarily have a zeal to learn about them on the topic of Prophets, or passerbyers that stumbled upon it whom have no persona of piety, it may be felt by those that hold certain knowledges having to do with Prophets as 'sentimental', that the referent readers should not have easy access to those knowledges.
Topic: Books of Prophets, and changes to them
Comment: In Islam, it is believed that the Quran is a book that has gone unchanged. There is also saying credited as being from Prophet Muhammad, [citation and exact saying needed] that there have been books such as the Injeel, (confer Gospel in Islam(6)) sometimes referred to a the Bible, which have been 'changed' over the years. In brief, the 'Book' when originally revealed was or is the book, while edits and revisions done to texts years later might have other content that could differ from the the original revelations. Matters of concern could arise in the quest for obtaining the earliest known recordings of contents of books revealed to Prophets. Well known Revealed Books are Torah/Toreh revealed to Musa/Moses, Quran to Muhammad, Zabur(7) to Daud/Dawud/David. Among books mentioned in the Quran, is Book of Ishmael(8). Book of Isiah is mentioned in 'The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Bible'(9). The Injeel, the Torah/Toreh, are clearly mentioned verbatim in the Quran.
Topic: Families and descendants of Prophets
Comment: Prophets were creation, men; they had lives, and their personal relations and families, should be respected insofar disclosing personal information. Surviving descendants might dwell in a village and wish to remain there in peace without inordinate intrusion.
Topic: How to know a Prophet is a Prophet, if he is not mentioned in the Quran
Comment: This has been a subject around for time lengths undescribed; in consideration that the Quran is treated by scholars of Islam as a book unchanged. Note, unchanged in this context means what was revealed, not referring to the different manuscript styles that the Quran is printed in, in Arabic, over time. The article 'How Do We Know the Quran is Unchanged?'(10), cites Surah Hijr ayat (verse) 9, subheading 'The Promise to Protect', 'wa ina lahu lahafithun', transliterated.
Sources:
(1)Prophets and messengers in Islam, at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prophets_and_messengers_in_Islam
(2)Hadith, at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadith
(3)Uzair, at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uzair
(4)'Uzair (Ezra) - Ezra Sleeps For 100 Years' http://www.alim.org/library/biography/stories/content/SOP/1/26/Uzair%20%28Ezra%29/Ezra%20%20Sleeps%20For%20100%20Years%20
(5)Number of Prophets, https://www.al-islam.org/prophethood-and-prophet-islam-ayatullah-ibrahim-amini/number-prophets
(6)Gospel in Islam, at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_in_Islam
(7)Zabur, at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zabur
(8)Ishmael, at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishmael
(9)'The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Bible', authored by Pfieffer, Charles F., 1969
(10)How Do We Know the Quran is Unchanged?, http://lostislamichistory.com/how-do-we-know-the-quran-is-unchanged/