On the nature of the Prophethood of Muhammad

Salaam brothers and sisters,

I am trying to word this question very carefully as not to rise Fitna amongst us. So I'll preface by saying that I accept the Prophethood of Muhammad (SAWS), I accept Allah and Yawm ad-Deen, and I seek nothing but Allah's good pleasure. I'll also say that I have a hard time wording this question succinctly, so please excuse me for this if it is confusing. I'm asking the question sincerely and in good faith, not as a doubter or provocateur.

So my question is about the necessity of the Prophethood of Muhammad; specifically given that Isa (AS) was sent as al-Masih before Muhammad. So... if we had the Messiah, then why did Allah need to send Muhammad before the Mahdi? Why not just have Isa -> Mahdi -> Return of Isa? Or, alternatively why was Isa specifically the Masih, why not make Muhammad the Masih and Isa just a "regular" rasul?

Now, I believe that, according to the way the Tawra and Injeel are set up, and indeed by the way Allah teaches us by giving many chances, that Isa AS must have ascended before he could fulfill all of the prophecies of the Tawra and Zabur. So we can at least by reason get that Isa must have been sent by Allah, that he must have beet rejected by Bani Israel, he must have been taken from Dunya, and that after some time the Mahdi must come and that Isa returns to defeat ad-Dajjal.

But what in all this was the necessity of the Prophethood of Muhammad? I get that there are arguments that Muhammad was prophesied in the Bible, but... that just asserts that Muhammad was promised. It doesn't say why we had a 600 wait after Isa just to have another 1400-indefinite year period before the Mahdi.

I'll also note, just to be clear, that questioning the motives of Allah is never truly wise if you're doing it just to cast around doubts. But I'll justify my question by stating that the answer to this question gets to the heart of the consistency of Islam's (and, indeed, even Christianity's) internal logic. If we can deduce logically that Muhammad must have been a promised intermediary between Isa and the Mahdi, then that goes a long way to testing that the truth of Allah's apostles is certain and that it stands up to attempts to falsify the foundational claims of both religions. We can't be sure that our deductions will be right, since we don't have access to divine insight like the Prophets did, but we can surely take up Allah's exhortation to continually test and reprove His ayat.

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