Invitation to Ahmadiyyat — Page 255
255 about the Arabic language that it will completely transform peo - ple’s view of Islam and bring glory to this great religion. Besides these intellectual gifts which the Promised Messiah as received so abundantly from God, he also received the spiritual gifts that are the special prerogative of Prophets. In this respect, too, his opponents could not compete with him. As I have said, the Promised Messiah as did not bring a new Shariah. He only came in fulfilment of earlier prophecies to serve and propagate the reli - gion of the Holy Prophet s as. To teach and spread the Holy Quran was his mission. No new knowledge can come from heaven after the Holy Quran, for it encompasses all knowledge. There can be no new teacher after the Holy Prophet s as , for anyone who comes after him will only come to renew his teachings. A revelation of the Promised Messiah as says: 14 َ م َّ م َ وَتَعَل َّ م َ فَتَبَارَك َ مَن ْ عَل َّ ْہ ِ وَسل ي ی ہللا ُ عَلَ َّ دٍصَل َّ ن ْ مُّحَم ِّ کُل ُّ بَرَکَۃ ٍ م All of this blessing is from Muhammad, on whom be the peace and blessings of Allah. Greatly blessed is he who taught this servant of God, and greatly blessed is he who was taught. The revelation describes the relationship between the Holy Prophet s as and the Promised Messiah as , the master and the disciple. As the final word on spiritual truths has been revealed in the Holy Quran, those who are now appointed to any spiritual office can only have the gift of special knowledge of the Holy Quran itself, and no other. Their authenticity will be gauged by the fact that God will grant them a vast knowledge of the Holy Quran. Such knowledge will not be based on reasoning and deduction