Chapter Six

System of Prophethood

This means the system made by God for human guidance through prophets, reveletion and holy books. The question confronted by man is that what was the need to creat this structure while wisdom the wisdom was already given to him . The second confusion is that do the revelation and wisdom support each other or they are opposite entities. The philosopher can be divided into three groups on the basis of their answer to above questions.
First one are those according to whom although the wisdom is good source of solving human problems, but there are many issues where wisdom is failed to present any solution then revelation come forward to solve the problem. Aristotle, Plato and John lock are major supporters of this school of thought. According to second group the revelation and wisdom are two things apart from each other and it is foolish to try to find out any similarity between
them. The Pascal was the leader of this group. The third group possess the opinion that as the revelation can not be seen and can not be experienced so it is not present. They believe only in those things which are present and can be seen and proved by experience.
By critical analysis all opinion of all three groups it clears the later two groups’ opinion is based on incomplete observation and egoism. The first group, however, has adopted a reasonable approach by giving due respect to both revelation and wisdom. But here again a question arises that if both of them are equally important why we they have contradictions between themselves. Ibn-e-Temia a muslim scholar while answering this question in detail presents three reasons of contradictions. According to him both of them are strong supporters of each other and are two faces of a coin, but if we find a difference then the fault lies on our side.
He says that following can be the reason to find a contradiction,
1). The basis of bases may be wrong.
2) Analysis and comparisons of both.
3). Insufficient research on issue.
Qur'an-e-hakeem give may arguments to prove that wisdom alone is unable to solve all problems faced by man and always need some supernatural guidance in form of revelation. The revelation actually purifies the wisdom and protects it from straying by giving it direction.
According to Aristotle, it is a divine spark that complete the wisdom. But again it give rise to a question that if revelation was too much necessary then why its chain was broken and why it was stopped. The Holy Qur'an guide us that because every nation was given a different Sharia but now Islam is the only excepted religion of the universe therefore the revelation was stopped. Secondly, being a universal and eternal sharia it is secured by God himself and there is no need of any more prophets or revelation. This also prohibit the claim of new prophethood now a days.
So we can conclude that the revelation and wisdom both are necessary for human to lead his life according to Allah’s will.