Among the saints, may God be pleased with them, are the prophets, may God’s prayers be upon them. God entrusted them with prophethood, and they are men whom He created for Himself and chose for His service. He singled them out from all the other servants of His Presence. He legislated for them what they should worship within themselves. He did not command some of them to pass on those acts of worship to others by way of obligation. The position of prophethood is a special position in guardianship. They are based on a law from God, who has made things permissible for them or forbidden things for them and restricted them to others, since the earthly abode required that because it is the abode of death and life, and God Almighty said: He who created death and life that He may test you, and the obligation is the test.