Prophethood: a concept map

ʿAllāmah Ṭabāṭabāʾī builds his account of prophethood on 2:213: human beings, social by nature, fall into disputes that their own nature cannot settle, so God sends prophets with revelation and law. This map follows him: what prophethood is, why it is needed, how God speaks to the prophets, the difference between a prophet and a messenger, how religion was perfected and sealed, and the qualities of those He sends. Each point opens his own words in the commentary.

What prophethood is

How God speaks to them

Religion perfected and sealed

Prophethood

Nubuwwah

Why prophets are needed

Prophet and messenger

Those whom He sends

Choose any point to read what the ʿAllāmah says.

All concept maps · More: every section of al-Mizan on this subject in the Topic Index. The ʿAllāmah’s own discourses, “A Discourse on Prophethood” and “A Discourse on the Infallibility of the Prophets”, are in the printed volume 3, after his commentary on 2:213, and will be in the Al-Mizan Study App.