Why did the great prophets declare themselves in special places?

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A question arises from history as to why the elite, resolute and great apostles who were endowed with laws and books come to the fore in the Middle East?

Noah came forward in Iraq. (1) The center of Abraham’s mission was Iraq and Syria and he went to Egypt and Hijaz.

Moses declared himself in Egypt then came to Palestine. Jesus too was centered in Syria and Palestine and our Messenger came to Hijaz. Others too were either born there or preached there and we can say that their center of guidance was in the Middle East. What was the reason for all these prophets to have come to these places? Is it that the other places were bereft of the presence of any apostle?

The Answer:

There will be no doubts if we study and think about the early civilization of mankind. The foremost historians have committed that the east (especially the Middle East) was the center of human civilization and this place was named as “Al Helalol Khaseeb”

This place called “AL Helalol Khaseeb” covers an area from the Nile to Tigress and Euphrates and the shape of this area is like crescent and this place has been the caretaker of great civilizations.

The Egyptian culture is considered to be the most famous of civilization. The same can also be said about Iraq and its Babel civilization, Iran and Syria in the north and Yemen in the South. The ruins of the past civilization and the books on them are ample proof of this contention. These civilizations are said to be more than 7 thousand years old.

There is a valid connection between the civilizations and the advent of the apostles because what these civilizations required was culture because they think about the laws for the rights of people and mischief makers are rarely found among them. We can say that at any time the people of the industrial and developed nations need religion more.

The wild tribes and those who live far from civilization are less inclined to accept the religions and even if they do adopt these religions they are unable to spread them.

If the religion is establish among the civilized people they tend to spread it and this is because some people worry about it for they believe that understand the problems of people would lead to solutions.

We can say: Why did Islam which is the greatest religion come to the people of the last civilization?

The answer to this is: If we look at the geographical maps we will find that Makkah has the position of a conjunction. (Hamza, an alphabet that joins other words)

The city had become the center of these civilizations.

On the north was the eastern Roman civilization. Iran, Caledonian and Ashurin civilization were in the north-east. In the south was the Yemeni civilization and the great Egyptian civilization was in the west. This is why God placed Islam in the center of these growing cultures to let Islam spread fast and to enhance its goodness and lessen their weaknesses. It was also to establish the belief and lofty ideals and spread the Islamic belief as much as could be done.

In short as we have said, we have now explained why God had sent so many resolute and great apostles to the Middle-east. Do we still have to answer why the eastern land was the center of God’s apostles?

 


 

1. The hadith from Imam Sadiq says that he said, “Kufa was a mosque (Place of worship) in the days of Noah and he lived with his people near the banks of the Euphrates (Tafsir Ayyashi‘s explanation of Surah Huod; hadith 19

 

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