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NoorE said:
"Before you, we also sent Messengers who were men We inspired.... We did not give them bodies which did not need food, nor were they immortals." (The Qur'an, The Prophets, v. 7-8)
"That has been Our method in the case of Our Messengers whom We sent before, and you will not find Our method to change." (The Qur'an, Bani Israel, v. 77)
So from the Qur'an we can see the way to recognize Messengers/Prophets of God - those with divinely inspired messages of great Truth. All Prophets have also fulfilled Prophecies of their coming from the previous religions - Christ fulfilled many Jewish prophecies, Muhammad fulfilled Christian and Jewish prophecies found in the Bible, etc. Each religion claims their messenger/prophet was the last, but each religion also has expectations and prophecies of a prophet to come in the future (Messiah, return of Christ, al-Mahdi, etc.). So it seems there will be further Prophets, although most do not seem to want it to be so :).
Indeed, I would encourage you to expand yourself even further beyond Islam to study other religions that also have great truth and teachings. For example, the Baha'i Faith, whose Prophets (Bab/Baha'u'llah) came in the 1800s, has a great teaching, and Bab and Baha'u'llah fulfilled many Islamic Prophecies of the return of Isa (Christ) and the Mahdi.
There is another, very new teaching, brought by a man named Maitreya, who I believe is also a Prophet. He has fulfilled prophecies from all world religions and cultures, more than any before Him. His teaching is of unification of all religions, and that all are from God and each a part of the full truth. I believe He fulfills the many expectations of the Prophet/Messiah/Christ/etc. to come in the end times, and that His Teaching is of profound truth and will change the world. I encourage you to study it also, and prove to yourself if it is also from God, and in the same spirit as the beauty you have found in Christianity and Islam. Maitreya's teachings can be found here: www.maitreya.org
I am also embedding a video which gives a brief introduction to the base of Maitreya's teachings.
I hope this helps.
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