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 "O men, Verily I am the messenger of God unto you all The Prophet has said, "I have been sent both to the white and the black nations."

The case of religions is just the same as that of God. There are some foods which agree with all, or most of tha people. Such is the case with religions also. So the dispensations before our own were meant for some particular peoples, ignoring all others, but our religion was meant for the whole of the human race. This being the case, our Prophet excels all the other Prophets, to him comes the divine revelation, which makes a man fit to be called a prophet. So the Prophet has said informing us of his superiority over other prophets, "There is no prophet to whom has not been given a sign by which all the men would have believed. I have been given divine revelation, and I hope that my followers would be in the majority on the Day of Judgment."

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