Haqiqatul-Wahi (The Philosophy of Divine Revelation) — Page 878
878 AL-ISTIFTA' SUPPLEMENT TO HAQIQATUL-WAḤI However, the Best of Mankind declared me to be a Prophet, and this is a matter of being his reflec- tion due to the blessings of complete submission. And I find no excellence within me; all that I have obtained is through his holy soul. By calling me a Prophet, Allah means only [that I receive] abun- dant revelations and converse [with God]. May the curse of Allah be upon the one who aspires to anything beyond that, or considers his own person as something special, or frees his neck from the yoke [i. e. complete submission] of the propheth- ood [of the Holy Prophet sa]. Surely, our Messenger is Khātamun-Nabiyyin [the Seal of the Prophets] and the chain of Messengers has ended with him. Therefore, no one has the right to claim prophethood after our Messenger, the Chosen One, in an independent manner, and nothing has remained after him except dialogue [with Allah] in abundance. Even this is conditional upon following [the Holy Prophetsa] and is not granted unless one is a true follower of the Best of Creation. I swear by God that I have been blessed with this spiritual station only by fol- lowing the radiant rays of the light of the Chosen Prophetsa. I have been granted the name 'Prophet' by Allah, not in its original sense [of being raised independently], but as a subordinate Prophet. This