Islam considers itself to be the very last religion to be revealed to mankind before the Day of Judgment, and the Prophet Mul_iammad to be the very last of the long line of Prophets and Messengers beginning with Adam. Hence, in many ways, Islam sums up in itself and in its Prophet many of the qualities and attitudes of previous revelations, just as the Prophet is a kind of synthesis of the long line of prophets stretching back in time to Adam.
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