Reconciling the Excellence of the Messengers with Not Distinguishing Between Them

Question:
May Allah reward you. The questioner asks: How do we reconcile the saying of Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He: and the saying of Allah: ? That is, we do not deny the message of some of them and affirm the message of others. That is, we do not declare some of them disbelievers and not distinguish between them. That is, we do not declare some of them disbelievers. As for the fact that some of them are better than others, that is by the explicit text of the Qur'an.

Answer:
The messengers are not equal, peace and blessings be upon them all. The best of them is Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him), then al-Khalil Ibrahim, then the rest of the five resolute ones: Nuh, Ibrahim, Musa, Isa, and Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon them all). They are the best of the messengers. As for distinguishing between them, that is to believe in some of them and disbelieve in some of them. I wish that you understand matters in their natural state and context, and that you do not take matters without deliberation and without understanding, and say that the texts are contradictory.