Invitation to Ahmadiyyat — Page 48
48 Word is revealed to him for their guidance, creating a community of people who devote their lives for the propagation of truth, and reforming their hearts and deeds through his example. In short, the denial of the coming of a Prophet stems from a misunderstanding of the concept of prophethood; otherwise, this kind of prophethood serves only to raise the status of the Holy Prophet s as rather than lower it. It is said that the Holy Quran puts an end to the appearance of any Prophet after the Holy Prophet s as because it says: 42 اَم َناَك ٌدَّمَحُم ۤاَبَا ٍدَحَا ْنِّم ْمُكِلاَجِّر َو ْنِكٰل َلْوُسَّر ِهّٰللا َو َمَتاَخ َنّٖيِبَّنلا Muhammad is not the father of any of your men, but he is the Messenger of Allah and Kh a tamun-Nabiyy i n. It is concluded from this that Prophets cannot come anymore. If these people opened the Holy Quran and looked at the verse carefully, they would find that God uses the word kh a tam with a fat h ah , not with a kasrah. Kh a tam means ‘to seal’, not ‘to end’. A seal is used to validate and certify. Hence this verse would mean that the Holy Prophet s as is the Seal of the Prophets. Imam Bukh a r i in his book S a hih al-Bukh a r i interprets Kh a tamun-Nabiyy i n as ‘the Seal of the Prophets’ and cites Traditions that speak of a mark on the Holy Prophet’s body called ‘the seal of prophecy’. 43 If only people pondered over the Holy Quran, they would not have been thus misled. If they looked at the context, they would find that in the previous verse it is said that Muhammad is not the father of any of your males, and then, with the conjunction l a kin (but), the words Kh a tamun-Nabiyy i n are used. It is evident that