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110 Mahzarnama be upon him. One cannot reach the limit of his high status and it is not given to man to estimate correctly his spiritual effectiveness. It is a pity that his rank has not been recognized as it should have been. He was the champion who restored to the world the Unity of God which had disappeared from the world; he loved God in the extreme and his soul melted out of sympathy for mankind. Therefore God, Who knew the secret of his heart, exalted him above all the Prophets and all the first ones and the last ones and bestowed upon him in his life-time all that he desired. He is the fountain-head of every grace and a person who claims any superiority without acknowledging his grace, is not a man but is the progeny of Satan. He has been bestowed the key to every exaltation. . . . " Whatever the Holy Founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at wrote on this particular aspect of the Khatme Nubuwwat of the Holy Prophet sa , has found support and confirmation among the contemporary scholars. For instance, it is written in the [ sic. Urdu] translation of the Holy Quran by the renowned scholars of the Deobandi school of thought viz. Maulana Mahmood-ul-Hasan and Maulana Shabbir Ahmad Usmani: "Just as all the degrees of light, in the material world, reach their ultimate end in the sun, similarly the whole range of ranks and excellences of Prophethood and Messengership reaches its end with the soul of the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa. In this regard, we can say that he was Khaatamun Nabiyyeen both in respect of rank as well as in respect of time scale. And whoever became the recipient of Prophethood did so in consequence of receiving the impress of the Holy Prophet's Seal of Prophethood. . " Similarly, the caretaker of Daar-ul-Uloom Deoband, Maulana Qari Muhammad Tayyeb, wrote: "The grandeur of the Holy Prophet does not just exhibit itself in terms of his Prophethood, but equally so with respect to his