With Love to Muhammad (sa) - The Khatam-un-Nabiyyin — Page 152
152 With Love to Muhammad sa the Kh ā tam-un-Nabiyy ī n Holy Prophet Muhammad sa the position of the ‘gold brick’ to differentiate between their statuses. In the same way, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jam ā ‘at believes that the position of the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa is that of a ‘gold brick,’ not a brick in one of the corners of a palace in literal terms, and this means that he is the greatest of the prophets. Compared to him, the Promised Messiah as holds the position of a ‘silver brick’ which means that he is subordinate to the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa and gains his position only through utmost obedience to him and through his spiritual grace. Ninth, Farhan Khan says: The Ahmad ī [Muslim]s argue that the house is a metaphor representing the complete law of Isl ā m, and each brick is a law that the prophets brought forth. . . the Ahmad ī analogy would not make sense, because some prophets did not build onto the existing laws, which is analogous to adding another brick. Some completely removed the previous law altogether and established an entirely new one. For example, while there are striking similarities, the Isl ā mic shar ī ‘ah is not based upon the 613 Jewish mitzvahs. The only way those kinds of prophets would fit into the Ahmad ī [Muslim] analogy would be if they completely destroyed the structure and started anew. 151 This is an amusing argument presented by Farhan Khan. It displays how he not only tries to take an analogy literally himself but tries to apply the Ahmadiyya Muslim understanding of the 151 Khan, With Love, Page 15