Praise be to God Who created the noble, truthful prophets. Loving the prophets is among the obligations of the heart so let us continue to learn about these great examples. For the past three times we talked about the first of the prophets, Prophet Adam. God's willing you are now more knowledgeable about beloved Prophet Adam. It is ugly how some people mock Prophet Adam. Praise be to God that He guided us to be among those who love and respect the first man and Prophet.
As we said last time, Prophet Adam lived for a long time. Do you remember how long he lived? It was for 1000 years. Prophet Adam was patient with all the discomforts of living on this earth for all those years. Allah will reward him greatly on the Day of Judgment, and he will reenter Paradise and live therein forever. Remember how we said that before Prophet Adam lived on earth he lived in Paradise with his honorable wife for 130 years! Prophet Adam will enter Paradise again on the Day of Judgment and will never be sent out of it.
After Prophet Adam, God continued to send prophets to Earth as a mercy from Him to the people. If you remember, we told you that Lady Hawwa' gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl, but once she gave birth and had a boy only. This boy grew to be Prophet Shith, peace be upon him. Prophet Shith was the second prophet God sent to the people.
Prophet Shith was born after Qabil had committed the great sin of killing his brother Habil. Of course Prophet Shith never committed a sin like that of his brother, for as we have said, prophets never commit blasphemy, great sins, or small, mean sins both before and after prophethood, may God raise their ranks.
The name Shith means "the gift of God". Prophets are well mannered even as little children. They are not mischievous, rude, nor do they tell lies. Such a child for a parent is indeed a gift from God. Before Prophet Adam died he made Shith the custodian of his other children, but Shith was not yet a prophet. Then when Prophet Adam died, Shith received Revelation and became a prophet and a messenger.
God revealed many sheets of guidance to Prophet Shith, 50 different ones in all. Shith was a messenger as well as a prophet. What does this mean? This is something important that we would like to explain.
Both prophets who are not messengers and those who are receive Revelation from God. They both have all those perfect human characteristics which we spoke of, such as truthfulness, trustworthiness and intelligence. But a messenger has something more. He receives a new set of rules from God which cancels some of the laws of the messenger before him. Not every prophet is a messenger, but every messenger is a prophet. In Arabic a messenger is called Rasul.
One of the laws of Prophet Adam's time which was canceled during Prophet Shith's time was the permissibility for a brother to marry his sister. From Prophet Shith's time until the Day of Judgment it is forbidden for a brother to marry his sister.
During the lifetime of Prophet Shith all the humans continued to be Muslims and none of them blasphemed. How beautiful it must have been during Prophet Shith's time compared to nowadays with so many blasphemers spreading their wrong beliefs and committing so many sins.
Prophet Shith spent his life in the honorable city of Makkah performing Hajj and ^Umrah until he died at the age of 912. It was mentioned Prophet Shith was buried with his parents, Prophet Adam and Lady Hawwa'. As you can see, Prophet Adam was not the only human who lived for a long time. Prophet Shith lived a long life full of patience like his father. Some Prophets lived even longer than a thousand years. God's willing we will tell you more about some of these other prophets in upcoming threads.
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