Quote from: Haneen on March 02, 2009, 09:09:39 PM
Do you think messenger and prophet is same world?
in the quran messenger is a rasool, which carries to idea of 'sent' whereas prophet is Nabi, which carries the idea of 'Informing'
so in my understanding, a messenger is someone sent by god, whereas a prophet is someone who informs us of some information from God, that he has revealed. thus Nabi is more specific to someone who passes on Gods revelation, or inspiration, whereas, in my understanding a rasool could be anyone, sent by god, or commisioned by god to preach the message, to spread the message etc
although, again its only my understanding, which may well be incorrect. i am not an expert in arabic, in fact i only have limited knowledge and understanding of it.
peace