Editing Quran (section)

=== Prophets ===
{{Main|Prophets and messengers in Islam}}
In Islam, God speaks to people called prophets through a kind of [[revelation]] called ''[[wahy]]'', or through [[angel]]s. ({{qref|42|51|pl=y}}) ''[[nubuwwah]]'' ({{Langx|ar|نبوة}} 'prophethood') is seen as a duty imposed by God on individuals who have some characteristics such as intelligence, honesty, fortitude and justice: "Nothing is said to you that was not said to the messengers before you, that your lord has at his Command forgiveness as well as a most Grievous Penalty."<ref>{{qref|41|43|b=y}}</ref>{{Citation needed|date=September 2024}}<!--original research-->

Islam regards [[Abraham]] as a link in the chain of prophets that begins with Adam and culminates in [[Muhammad]] via [[Ishmael]]{{sfn|Levenson|2012|p=8}} and mentioned in 35 [[chapters of the Quran]], more often than any other biblical personage apart from [[Moses in Islam|Moses]].{{sfn|Peters|2003|p=9}} Muslims regard him as a ''[[hanif]]'',{{sfn|Levenson|2012|p=200}} an archetype of the perfect Muslim, and revered prophet and builder of the [[Kaaba]] in Mecca.{{sfn|Lings|2004|p=}} The Quran consistently refers to Islam as 'the religion of Abraham' ({{tlit|ar|millat Ibrahim}}).<ref>{{qref|2|135|b=y}}</ref> In Islam, [[Eid-al-Adha]] is celebrated to commemorate [[Abraham in Islam|Abraham's attempt to sacrifice his son]] by surrendering in line with his dream,([[As-Saaffat]]; 100–107) which he accepted as the will of God.<ref name="Glasse">{{cite encyclopedia |last=Glassé |first=Cyril |title=Kaaba |encyclopedia=The Concise Encyclopedia of Islam |publisher=[[HarperSanFrancisco]], Suhail Academy |year=1991 |chapter=Abraham |pages=18–19 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dlPuAAAAMAAJ |isbn=0-0606-3126-0}}</ref>

[[File:Asiya finds Moses.jpg|thumb|upright=1.35|[[Asiya]] and her servants finding baby Moses in [[the Nile]], ''[[Jami' al-tawarikh]]''; a story that follows the footsteps of [[Sargon of Akkad]]'s [[Mythology|mythological accounts]]<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Coogan|first1=Michael David|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4DVHJRFW3mYC&q=michael+d+coogan&pg=PR5|title=The Oxford History of the Biblical World|last2=Coogan|first2=Michael D.|date=2001|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-513937-2|quote=Many of these forms are not, and should not be considered, historically based; Moses’ birth narrative, for example, is built on folkloric motifs found throughout the ancient world.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Text, Artifact, and Image: Revealing Ancient Israelite Religion |last=Rendsburg |first=Gary A. |publisher=Brown Judaic Studies |year=2006 |isbn=978-1-930675-28-5 |page=204 |editor-last=Beckman |editor-first=Gary M. |chapter=Moses as Equal to Pharaoh |editor-last2=Lewis |editor-first2=Theodore J. |chapter-url=https://jewishstudies.rutgers.edu/docman/rendsburg/118-moses-as-equal-to-pharaoh/file}}</ref>{{refn|group=note|My mother, the high priestess, conceived; in secret she bore me
She set me in a basket of rushes, with bitumen she sealed my lid
She cast me into the river which rose over me.<ref>{{cite book |first=Timothy D. |last=Finlay |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pOigG8qtC8oC&pg=PA236 |title=The Birth Report Genre in the Hebrew Bible |series=Forschungen zum Alten Testament |volume=12 |publisher=Mohr Siebeck |year=2005 |page=236 |isbn= 978-3-16-148745-3}}</ref>}} possibly [[pious fiction]].<ref name="Ox1">{{cite web |title=Moses |url=http://www.oxfordbiblicalstudies.com/article/opr/t94/e1284 |website=Oxford Biblical Studies Online}}</ref>  
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In Islam, [[Moses in Islam|Moses]] is a prominent prophet and messenger of God and the most frequently mentioned individual in the Quran, with [[#Quranic references|his name being mentioned 136 times]] and his life being narrated and recounted more than that of any other prophet.<ref>{{cite book|title=Third Way (magazine)|page=18|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u20z-dBo6SIC&pg=PA18|date=May 1996|last1=Ltd|first1=Hymns Ancient Modern}}{{better source needed|date=October 2024}}</ref><ref name="Keeler"/>

Stories of the prophets in the Quran often revolve around a certain pattern, according to which a prophet is sent to a group of people, who then reject or attack him, and ultimately suffer extinction as God's punishment. However, the Quran, given its paraenetic character, does not offer a full narrative; but rather offers a parabolic reference to the doom of previous generations, assuming the audience is familiar with the told stories.<ref>Hagen, G. (2009). "From Haggadic Exegesis To Myth: Popular Stories Of The Prophets In Islam". In Sacred Tropes: Tanakh, New Testament, and Qur’an as Literature and Culture. Leiden, Niederlande: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004177529.i-536.65</ref>