Symposium 32

Approaches to Proving Prophecy

Anwar: We are back again to continue our fruitful talk on approaches to proving claims for prophethood.

Hasan: We have already discussed the first approach to verifying that a claimer for prophethood is truthful, namely miracles. The second way or approach is attestation of a preceding prophet for the following prophet. Now that a person is proved to be truthful in regard to his prophecy, we know that he is infallible and impeccable, i.e. he does not commit sin, he does not lie, he does not forget, etc. As a result, when this prophet tells us about a prophet that is going to succeed him or come after him, we must take his words for granted.

Anwar: I got it.