With Love to Muhammad (sa) - The Khatam-un-Nabiyyin — Page 122
122 With Love to Muhammad sa the Kh ā tam-un-Nabiyy ī n him from God Al-Mighty as a special blessing. Farhan Khan’s understanding is now refuted with the following points. Everyday Language First, one must pay a little attention to the actual words of the Holy Prophet sa. He says, “Nothing remains of prophethood except mubashir ā t ”. How beautifully has the Holy Prophet sa made the prophecy of the continuation of prophethood in this ummah. Look at the sentence structure! We casually make similar statements every day. If there is a baseball game that is about to end, we say, “The game is over except one inning. ” A baseball game is made up of several innings, but the game is not over if there is still one inning left open for play. For any tournament that is about to end, we say, “Now there are only 1 or 2 matches remaining” or “Nothing remains of the tournament except 1 or 2 matches”. An open match is still an inseparable part of the tournament and we cannot say that the tournament is finished so long as that match is still open. If one wants to say, “The food is finished, except some bread,” it is translated in Arabic as follows: اFخبز a اﻻ a ِ اF[]ام a Gن a Mبق a Fم ! It would be wrong to say that the bread is not food for we know that the bread is a part of the meal. So long as that bread still exists, we cannot say that the food is finished. These are all the examples where the components are inseparable parts of the whole, and the difference is only in terms of magnitude and/or frequency. In the same way, the Holy Prophet sa said: “Nothing remains of prophethood except