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Chapter IX117Genuine Prophets preach only Islam [1]There is no nation known to history like the people of Israel, which during a period of less than four hundred years, was infested with myriads of false prophets(pbtuhem), not to mention the swarms of sorcerers, soothsayers and all sorts of witchcrafts and magicians. The falseprophets were of two kinds: those who professed the religion and the Torah (Law) of Yahweh and pretended to prophesy in His name, and thosewho underthe patronage of an idolater Israelite monarch prophesied in the name of Báal or other deities of the neighbouring heathen peoples. Belonging to the former category there were several impostors as contemporaries with the true prophetslike Mikha (Micah) and Jeremiah, and to the latter there were those who gave much trouble to Elijah, and caused the massacres of the true prophets and believers during the reign of Ahab and his wife Jezebel. Most dangerous of all to the cause of true faith and religion were the pseudo-prophets, who conducted the divine services in the temple as well as in the Misphas and pretended to deliver the oracles of God to the people. No prophet perhaps, received at the hands of these impostors more of persecution and hardshipsthan the Prophet Jeremiah.While still a young man,Jeremiah began his prophetic mission about the latter quarter of the seventh century before the Christian era, when the Kingdom of Judah was in great danger of invasion by the armies of the Chaldeans. The Jews had entered into alliance with the Pharaoh of Egypt, but as the latter had been badly defeated by the troops of Nebuchadnezzar, Jerusalem’s doom was merely[1] .Quran, 3:19. The Religion before Allah is Islam (submission to His Will): Nor did the People of the Book dissent there from except through envy of each other, after knowledge had come to them. However, if any deny the Signs of Allah, Allah is swift in calling to account.)Editors(.