With Love to Muhammad (sa) - The Khatam-un-Nabiyyin — Page 334
334 With Love to Muhammad sa the Kh ā tam-un-Nabiyy ī n preserved forever. For this purpose, God instituted Khil ā fah so that the world should at no time be deprived of the blessings of prophethood. He who limits it to thirty years, foolishly overlooks the true purpose of Khil ā fah , and does not realize that God did not design that the blessings of Khil ā fah be limited to thirty years after the death of the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of All ā h be upon him) and that, thereafter, the world may go to ruin…. There are many other verses in the Holy Qur’ ā n, which give tidings of a permanent Khil ā fah among the Muslims, and there are also several ah ā d ī th to the same effect. But what I have said already should suffice for those who accept established verities as great wealth. There is no worse concept concerning Isl ā m than to say that it is a dead religion whose blessings were confined only to its beginning. Can the Book that opens the door of perpetual good fortune inculcate so discouraging a doctrine that there is no blessing or Khil ā fah in the future and that everything has been confined to the past? True, there will be no independent prophets among the Muslims. But if there were also to be no Khulaf ā ’ to demonstrate the proofs of spiritual life from time to time, that would spell the end of spirituality in Isl ā m…. It causes one’s heart to tremble to imagine that Isl ā m has now died and that no such people would arise in it, whose spiritual manifestations would be a substitute for miracles and whose inspiration a substitute for revelation, let alone that a Muslim should believe in any such possibility as a doctrine. May God Almighty guide those who are involved in such misguided thinking. [ Shah ā dat-ul-Qur’ ā n , R ū h ā n ī Khaz ā ’in, Volume 6, Pages 352- 356]