The signs of moderation in the discourse derived from the speech of the Prophets to their people in the Holy Quran

Abstract

This paper focuses on the elevation of the Prophets' addresses to their peoples despite the opposition and harm these people inflect on the prophets and their followers. The paper seeks to shed light on the addresses of moderation by quoting live and realistic specimen of the call of the prophets and messengers to their misguided peoples to follow the right path of God. Prophets were instructed by God to use soft speech, wisdom, and right sermon in their calls in spite of the animosity and oppression of these people. Each prophet has his own unique style of presentation and call that far supersedes human minds. Because prophets are the ultimate model to humanity and in view of the dark and hard conditions this paper contemplates the Quranic stories of Prophets and a smaple of there addresses to their people to deduce discourse guidelines to guide the nation in deciding its destiny. The paper seeks to answer the question of how was the Prophets' address to their peoples? What are the means to make their call succeed? And what is the essence of successful moderate discourse.The nature of the successful address, that the individual should adopt in his dealings with other, should be derived from the prophets' address as they take all available time in their call and their never going desperate. The paper follows the theoretical and applied methods to combine the events and happenings to what the the Quran relates in the stories of the prophets.Individuals must follow and imitate the ethical behaviors of the prophets in using moderate address with the sinners and divergents because what force fails to achieve can surely be achieved by mild style and moderate address. The prophetic approach to address should be the path we follow in all our dealings with the pious and sinners alike.