With Love to Muhammad (sa) - The Khatam-un-Nabiyyin

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With Love to Muhammad (sa) - The Khatam-un-Nabiyyin — Page 194

194 With Love to Muhammad sa the Kh ā tam-un-Nabiyy ī n of the body also, I call God to witness that I shall hand over to such a person one thousand rupees in cash and also acknowledge that he possesses expert knowledge of had ī th and the Holy Qur’ ā n. 206 In another place, he writes: If anyone can cite a single instance from the Holy Qur’ ā n or had ī th , or from ancient or modern Arabic poetry and prose, that the word tawaff ī , when applied to a human being, God being the subject, has been used in any connotation other than death and taking possession of the soul, for instance, in the connotation of the taking the body, I bind myself on oath that I shall pay that person one thousand rupees in cash by selling some of my property and shall always hold him in high esteem as a great scholar of the Holy Qur’ ā n and had ī th. 207 This challenge is now being extended to Farhan Khan! To earn his reward, he can go ahead and cite a single instance from the Holy Qur’ ā n or from the ah ā d ī th or from ancient or modern poetry, or ode, or prose of the Arabs in which the expression tawaff ī has been employed when indicating the action of God Almighty concerning a human being, as connoting anything beyond death or taking possession of the soul, that is to say, as connoting the taking possession of the body in addition to the soul. If he can do that, the Ahmadiyya Muslim theology falls 206 Iz ā la-e-Auh ā m , R ū h ā n ī Khaz ā ’in, Volume 3, Pages 602-603, trans. in The Essence of Isl ā m, Volume 3, Pages 375-377 207 Iz ā la-e-Auh ā m , R ū h ā n ī Khaz ā ’in, Volume 3, Page 603, trans. in The Essence of Isl ā m, Volume 3, Page 198