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Among the blessings and favors that God has bestowed upon humanity is that He endowed them with an innate ability to recognize and acknowledge His existence.\u00a0 He placed this awareness deep in their hearts as a natural disposition that has not changed since human beings were first created.\u00a0 Furthermore, He reinforced this natural disposition with the signs that he placed in Creation that testify to His existence.\u00a0 However, since it is not possible for human beings to have a detailed knowledge of God except through revelation from Himself, God sent His Messengers to teach the people about their Creator Who they must worship.\u00a0 These Messengers also brought with them the details of how to worship God, because such details cannot be known except by way of revelation.\u00a0 These two fundamentals were the most important things that the Messengers of all the divine revelations brought with them from God.\u00a0 On this basis, all the divine revelations have had the same lofty objectives, which are:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n 1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 To affirm the Oneness of God – the praised and glorified Creator \u2013 in His essence and His attributes.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n 2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 To affirm that God alone should be worshipped and that no other being should be worshipped along with Him or instead of Him.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n 3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 To safeguard human welfare and oppose corruption and evil.\u00a0 Thus, everything that safeguards faith, life, reason, wealth and lineage are part of this human welfare that religion protects.\u00a0 On the other hand, anything that endangers these five universal needs is a form of corruption that religion opposes and prohibits.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n 4.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 To invite the people to the highest level of virtue, moral values, and noble customs.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n The ultimate goal of every Divine Message has always been the same: to guide the people to God, to make them aware of Him, and to have them worship Him alone.\u00a0 Each Divine Message came to strengthen this meaning, and the following words were repeated on the tongues of all the Messengers: \u201cWorship God, you have no god other than Him.\u201d This message was conveyed to humanity by prophets and messengers which God sent to every nation.\u00a0 All of these messengers came with this same message, the message of Islam.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n All the Divine Messages came to bring the life of the people into willing submission to God.\u00a0 For this reason, they all share the name of \u201cIslam\u201d, or \u201csubmission\u201d derived from the same word as \u201cSalam\u201d, or \u201cpeace\u201d, in Arabic.\u00a0 Islam, in this sense, was the religion of all the prophets, but why does one see different variations of the religion of God if they all emanated from the same source? \u00a0The answer is twofold. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n The first reason is that as a result of the passage of time, and due to the fact that previous religions were not under the Divine protection of God, they underwent much change and variation.\u00a0 As a result, we see that the fundamental truths which were brought by all messengers now differ from one religion to another, the most apparent being the strict tenet of the belief and worship of God and God alone.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n The second reason for this variation is that God, in His infinite Wisdom and eternal Will, decreed that all the divine missions prior to the final message of Islam brought by Muhammad, may the mercy and blessings of God be upon him, be limited to a specific time frame.\u00a0 As a result, their laws and methodologies dealt with the specific conditions of the people whom they had been sent to address.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n