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As-Salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu. All praise is due to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,

the one and the unique. It is he that we praise and it is his blessings that we seek. He

is the Lord of the oppressed and the one who answers the du'aas of the weak. Alhamdulillah

we are continuing in our series of the prophets and the messengers and we're still in our introductory

series of lectures and so these are setting the stage. These are making us understand the

goal and the role and the vision and the wisdom of sending the prophets and the messengers.

So today inshaAllah wa ta'ala we will continue by listing some of the Quranic wisdom, some

of the explicit Quranic wisdoms of sending the prophets. In other words, what is the role

of the prophets and messengers? What does the Quran tell us about why Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

sent prophets and messengers? And if you read the verses of the Quran, you can't gather

three primary motifs and under each of them there are sub-branches. If you read the Quran

and you try to gather all of the verses pertaining to the Quranic wisdom of the role and the responsibilities

and the tasks and the wisdom of sending prophets and messengers and what is Allah requiring

of them you can gain three primary concepts and the first of these is the knowledge of Allah

subhanahu wa ta'ala and the knowledge of what we need to know and this can be divided into

multiple categories. So let's say one is to teach us what we need to know and to give us

knowledge that would not otherwise be accessible to us. This is without a doubt the primary

wisdom and role of the prophets. Without the prophets we would not have knowledge that is required

for us to understand ourselves, to situate ourselves, to contextualize ourselves, to know who we are

and this knowledge is multifaceted. So number one, they came with knowledge we cannot obtain.

What type of knowledge? One A, knowledge of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and telling us who is our

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