thank for posting, it really helpful, especially im a new convert...
Here some more.
I'll show you to recognize the differences among the prophet knowledges in the Holy Qur'an. There are some prophets who possesed the three of the knowledges, and there are some prophets who just possesed the first and the second knowledges.
And to recognize us about the meaning of 'shalihin' Shalihin are people whose could make sure that their moves is always a pray and da'wah. They got knowledge on consciousness.
If we read the Holy Qur'an very precisely. We will see some prophets whose had same pattern of struggled, lived journey and dawah each other but different then others prophets. Here they were five prophets: prophet Noah, prophet Hod, prophet Salih, prophet Lot, and prophet Jethro/Syu'aib. They had people, and Allah order them to give advise to their people, but their people defiance against their own prophet and then got punishment.
But there was one prophet between these five prophets of had different pattern for his struggled and live dawah. Who was he? Here he was prophet Lot.
Could we see the differences? The differences was there were two angels to tell him about his people awareness situation. prophet Lot said to the two angels something like: "Its little bit heavy to know this."
I little forget about the words precisely in the Holy Qur'an. He said that after the two angels explained him if his people should give punishment. Prophet Lot could passed this test. He punished his own people by the order of Allah with intermediary of two angels and prophet Ismael.
But what is that mean?
This mean that prophet Lot did not have knowledge on consciousness. He couldn't monitor the consciousness of his people.
Other four prophets, they monitor their people awareness, and then they know their people were incorrigible.
and somethin slip away from our view these all mean, that prophet Jethro is the descendant of prophet Ismail! He was the Midian, and the Midian place in Arab. So prophet Jethro is an arab.
And if we read the story in the Holy Qur'an, (I forget the Surrah, maybe between surrah Al-A'raaf, and Surrah Hud). there were a dialog between prophet Jethro with the people of Midian.
The people of Midian said: "Hey Jethro! if we don't remind and considering your family, we will stoning you!!"
prophet Jethro answered them with question, "What is my family got more glory then Allah?"
Are not the dialog remind us about Rasulullah Muhammad with his family Bani Hasyim?
and prophet Jethro isn't jews because at these moment all of jews just located in Egypt.
The prophets and people whose possesed knowledge on consciousness were the shalihin. shalihin were the containers of the light of love/the light of Muhammad. So must be the direct fathers of prophet Muhammad.
But some of them weren't become prophet, like Adnan for example. Adnan is the grandson of prophet Jethro. He is there in the Holy Qur'an, He was the guy who met prophet Moses at the cross of two ocean and the cross of two land. When prophet Moses ask him for gaved lesson about knowledge on consciousness.
Adnan is the nephew by marriage of prophet Moses. If we read agains very precisely their conversations in the Holy Qur'an, will be sure for us that they were already know each others before the met.