With Love to Muhammad (sa) - The Khatam-un-Nabiyyin — Page 272
272 With Love to Muhammad sa the Kh ā tam-un-Nabiyy ī n ۙ اَﺣَﺪًا ُّٰ اهلل َ ﻳَّﺒْﻌَﺚ ْ ﻟَّﻦ ْ اَن ُْ ﻇَﻨَﻨْمت ََ امك ﻇَﻨُّﻮْا ْ وَّاَهنَُّﻢ 269 That All ā h will never send anyone as a prophet. In reality, earlier peoples used to indulge in such foolish talk just as you indulge in today. You also say that God shall not send anyone now [as a prophet]. If, according to the ’ulem ā of today, this decree had changed in the time of the Holy Prophet sa and the practise of sending no more prophets has been initiated [by All ā h, the Exalted], then what was the reason for God to say this in the Qur’ ā n? Instead, the reality is that All ā h, the Exalted, is saying this to the Holy Prophet sa as a foolishness of the earlier peoples. 270 This is the Ahmadiyya Muslim argument and this is what Farhan Khan should have refuted if he had been honest! It is surprising, even shocking, to see that he totally ignores the main argument and goes into a completely different discussion. All ā h, the Exalted, says in verses 35 and 36 of S ū rah Al-Mu’min that those people who think that prophethood has come to an end are “transgressors and doubters” and such a one is an “arrogant and haughty Question for Farhan Khan: 1. Why did he hide the original argument presented by Hazrat Mirz ā T ā hir Ahmad rh and committed the straw man fallacy of refuting something that was a distorted 269 And indeed they thought, even as you think, that All ā h would never raise any Messenger. –S ū rah Al-Jinn, 72:8 270 Irf ā ne Khatme Nubuwwat , Page 347 [Translated from Urdu by the authors]