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Man, the Crown of Creation, was created to acquire the knowledge of Allah and return unto his Creator, but he was not left alone to achieve this purpose and his supreme goal. Allah, in His Infinite Mercy, sent Prophets from time to time to different nations and to different races to guide people on the right path. Allah says in the Holy Qur'an :
"And there is not a nation but a warner has gone among them". (Chapter 35 -verse 24)
In the long chain of Prophets our Holy Prophet Muhammad is the last of all the Prophets and Allah made him a mercy for the whole of mankind. The Holy Qur'an says :
"And We have not sent thee but as a mercy to all the nations". (Chapter 21 -verse 107)
Hazrat Nabi Muhammad guided the unbelievers, the idol worshippers and those who had gone astray to the worship of Allah and completed his mission by guiding people to the recognition of Noor-e-Imamat in Hazrat Mowlana Murtaza Ali, which he said would continue to be a source of guidance to mankind through the descendants of Mowla Ali and Hazrat Bibi Fatima.
During the 23 years of his mission, Hazrat Nabi Muhammad received revelations from Allah which now form the Holy Qur'an. In this Divine Book there are 114 chapters called Suras and 6,353 verses called Ayats. The first revelation which came to our Prophet comprises of the first five Ayats of Suratul Alaq. The night on which these verses were revealed is known as LAIL-TUL QADR. On this night when our Holy Prophet was in the cave of Mount Hira, completely absorbed in the meditation of the All High the Merciful Allah, Angel Gibreel appeared and said: "Read". Our Holy Prophet replied: "I do not know to read." The third time when our Holy Prophet replied in the same manner to this repeated command, Hazrat Gibreel said: "(O Muhammad) Read! Read in the name of your Lord Who created Man from a clot. Read! your Lord is the most Honorable. He Who taught to write with the Pen, He Who taught Man what he knew not."
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