With Love to Muhammad (sa) - The Khatam-un-Nabiyyin — Page 249
Continuation of Prophethood according to the Holy Qur’ ā n 249 These are then the four kinds of excellence that we beg of All ā h, the Exalted, five times in our daily prayers. In other words, we seek from God, the Supreme, heavenly signs and whoso does not aspire to them lacks faith. The very purpose of our prayer is this aspiration which we seek from God, the Great, five times in our daily prayers, in four shapes as four signs, seeking thus the magnification of God, the Most High, in the earth, so that our lives may not defile the earth as lives of denial and doubt and indifference. A person glorifies God, the Sublime, only when he begs of Him these four signs. 241 About the word shah ī d , he writes the following and this is the official stance of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jam ā ‘at on the word shah ī d : Common people have understood the word shah ī d to only mean “one who is killed by an arrow or a gun, or dies from an accident. ” However, next to All ā h, the Exalted, this is not the only status of shah ā dat. . . . In my opinion, the actual meaning of a shah ī d is something other than destruction of the body and it is a state of being in relation to the heart. 242 Explaining this further, he writes: The status of shah ā dat refers to a status at which man, with the strength of his faith, has gained such a conviction in God and the Day of Judgment, that it is 241 Commentary of The Holy Qur’ ā n- S ū rah Al-F ā tihah , Pages 241-242 242 Al-Hakam, Page 18, Volume 9: May 24, 1905