Saturday, April 20, 2024 AD / Shawwal 11, 1445 AH
Mansoor Hashemi Khorasani
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as it has been proved by the ruling of the intellect, and God Almighty has said: ﴿مَا كَانَ مُحَمَّدٌ أَبَا أَحَدٍ مِنْ رِجَالِكُمْ وَلَكِنْ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ وَخَاتَمَ النَّبِيِّينَ[1]; “Muhammad is not the father of any of your men, but (he is) the Messenger of God and the last of the Prophets,” and he is the one to whom God has sent down His Book, and He has obligated him to three tasks in connection with it: reading, explaining, and implementing it for people; as He has said: ﴿كَذَلِكَ أَرْسَلْنَاكَ فِي أُمَّةٍ قَدْ خَلَتْ مِنْ قَبْلِهَا أُمَمٌ لِتَتْلُوَ عَلَيْهِمُ الَّذِي أَوْحَيْنَا إِلَيْكَ[2]; “Thus, We sent you to a nation before which other nations passed so that you read to them what We revealed to you,” and said: ﴿وَأَنْزَلْنَا إِلَيْكَ الذِّكْرَ لِتُبَيِّنَ لِلنَّاسِ مَا نُزِّلَ إِلَيْهِمْ[3]; “And We sent down the Remembrance to you so that you explain to people what has been sent down to them,” and said: ﴿فَاحْكُمْ بَيْنَهُمْ بِمَا أَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ[4]; “So judge among them according to what God sent down.”

[Tasks of the Prophet]

Based on this, the Prophet, before anything else, is an intermediary in communicating the rulings of God through reading and explaining His Book, and this is his main task and the meaning of Prophethood; as He has said: ﴿مَا عَلَى الرَّسُولِ إِلَّا الْبَلَاغُ[5]; “Nothing is on the Prophet but communicating (the Message)”; meaning that, since he is a Prophet, nothing is on him but communicating the rulings of God, although since he is an Imam, in the cases in which he has been appointed as an Imam for people, he is also considered an intermediary in implementing the rulings of God; like Ibrahim whom God appointed as an Imam for people after appointing him as a Prophet so that he would be an intermediary in implementing His rulings among them; as He has said: ﴿وَإِذِ ابْتَلَى إِبْرَاهِيمَ رَبُّهُ بِكَلِمَاتٍ فَأَتَمَّهُنَّ ۖ قَالَ إِنِّي جَاعِلُكَ لِلنَّاسِ إِمَامًا[6]; “And when his Lord tested Ibrahim with some words, then he fulfilled them, He said: ‘I am going to appoint you as an Imam for people’”;

↑[1] . Al-Ahzab/ 40
↑[2] . Ar-Ra‘d/ 30
↑[3] . An-Nahl/ 44
↑[4] . Al-Ma’idah/ 40
↑[5] . Al-Ma’idah/ 99
↑[6] . Al-Baqarah/ 124