Since the time the Prophet Adam (pbuh) was sent to the Earth, Allah has sent messengers to every nation, to communicate to them the existence of Allah and the Hereafter, and to convey the divine message. Some of these messengers are those prophets whose names are stated in the Qur'an and to whom books were revealed. A Muslim must not discriminate between them, but respect them all equally, since they were all prophets of the true religion. Allah commands Muslims to believe in all the prophets, without making distinction:
The book by which humanity is responsible in our time is the Qur'an, revealed to the Prophet Muhammad (may Allah bless him and grant him peace). Because, as we are informed in the Qur'an, the earlier books, which were originally revealed to communicate the truth to mankind, were later altered through additions and deletions:
For this reason, Islam was revealed by Allah as the final religion. Allah, in a verse of the Qur'an, commands as follows:
In the Qur'an Allah also informs us that the Prophet Muhammad (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) is the last prophet:
Consequently, the only true religion for all times, since the era of the Prophet Muhammad (may Allah bless him and grant him peace), until the Day of Resurrection, is Islam, and its source, the Qur'an.