with help of my beloved teacher, May Allah Bless him
for anyone who cares;
Rasol means messenger. Prophets are messengers of God but not all messengers are Prophets. please read Qur'an;
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22 / AL-HAJJ - 75:Allah chooses messengers from angels and from men. Verily, Allah is He Who hears and sees (all things).
Angels can not be Prophets. but they can be messengers.
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6 / AL ANÂM 130: O you assembly of jinn and mankind! Did not there come to you (Resuls) Messengers from amongst you, reciting (reading and explaining) unto you My Verses and warning you of the meeting of this Day of yours? They will say: We bear witness against our souls (ourselves). It was their life of this world that deceived them. And they will bear witness against their souls (themselves) that they were QAFIR (the blasphemous).
Qur'an states that jinns have Rasols/Messengers from among them but jinns can not be Prophets.
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12 / YÛSUF - 50: So the king said: Bring him to me. But the Resul (Messenger) came to him, and (Joseph) said: Go back to your lord, and ask him why the ladies cut their hands. Verily, Allah is well aware of their snare.
this verse is about messenger of Pharaoh who's an atheist and Joseph and messenger of Pharaoh is also called Rasol. someone who does not even believe in God can not be Prophet.
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23 / AL-MU`MINUN - 44: Then, We sent our messengers in succession. Every tribe to which their messenger came rejected him. So We terminated them and made them a legend. Let the tribe which is not MUMIN (among the believers of Allah who wishes to reach Him) be away!
there are no hundreds of years between messengers. they come one after another. but no Prophet came right one after other. there are at least centuries between.
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39 / AZ ZUMAR 71: The QAFIRS (the blasphemous ones) will be driven to Hell in groups till, when they reach it, the gates thereof will be opened. And its keepers will say: Did not the Messengers come to you from among yourselves, reciting (reading and explaining) to you the Verses of your Lord, and warning you of the Meeting of this Day of yours? They will say: Yes, they did. But the Word of torment (Decree of Chastisement) has been justified against QAFIRS (the blasphemous ones).
unlike Prophets each nation would have a messenger from among themselves.
and for the last one;
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44 / AD-DUKHÂN - 10: Then watch for the day that the sky will bring forth a kind of smoke (or mist) plainly visible.
44 / AD-DUKHÂN - 11: It is such a smoke that it will surrender the people. This is a Grievous Chastisement.
44 / AD-DUKHÂN - 12: They will say: Our Lord, remove this torment from us for we are MUMIN."
44 / AD-DUKHÂN - 13: They do not derive a lesson (reminder). Verily, there has come to them a Messenger evidently.
44 / AD-DUKHÂN - 14: Then, they turned away, and said, "He is a trained insane person."
44 / AD-DUKHÂN - 15: We will remove the torment for some time, but you will fall into blasphemy again.
who are these people who claim to be Mumins though they are really not and therefor suffer? Sahaba? OF COURSE NOT! so, how could a Mumin reject a messenger after Mohammad SAW?
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