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. This obligation is made apparent in the Koran which he delivered. Allah says, "Believers, obey Allah and His Messenger, and do not turn away from him when you are hearing. Do not be like those who say, 'We hear,' but they do not listen" (8:20). And, "Say, 'Obey Allah, and obey the Messenger ….. If you obey him, you shall be guided" (24:54). "Obey Allah and the Messenger in order to be subjected to mercy" (3:132). "Whosoever obeys the Messenger, indeed he has obeyed Allah" (4:80). And, "Whatever the Messenger gives you, accept it; and whatever he forbids you, abstain" (59:7). "Whosoever obeys Allah, and the Messenger, they are with those whom Allah has favored" (4:69). "We did not send a Messenger except that he should be obeyed, by the permission of Allah" (4:64).

In these verses Allah clearly states that when someone obeys His Messenger he is in fact also obeying Allah. Obedience to whatever Prophet Muhammad commanded and abstaining from whatsoever he forbade are synonymous to being obedient to Allah. Allah also speaks of the reward for such obedience and warns of the punishment that will fall upon whosoever disobeys.

Scholars and Imams are of the opinion that obeying the Messenger of Allah means to cling to his prophetic way and submit to what he brought. They said that Allah did not send a Messenger to a nation without placing the obligation upon them to obey His Messenger and that by the Messenger the person is obeying Allah.