Mahzarnama (The Memorandum) — Page 27
Mahzarnama 27 meaning which can be summarized as follows: the Holy Prophet sa is the most perfect of all the Prophets; he is the Seal of the Prophets and adornment of the Prophets. All the excellences of prophethood found their utmost expression in him and he was handed the key to all greatness and superiority, viz. his divine ordinance ( Shariah ), i. e. , the Holy Quran and the Holy Prophet's precept ( Sunnah ) will continue to reign till the end of time and will encompass every nook and cranny of the world. Every human being would be required to be governed by it, and there is none who can abrogate even a jot or tittle of this Shariah. So the Holy Prophet sa is the bearer of the final Shariah and the final preceptor who must be obeyed. He was final to all the prophets: in the physical as well as the spiritual sense. The strike of his finality ( Khaatamiyyat ) spares no prophet in any sense. After his advent, it is not possible for any previous prophet to return and live in a physical sense as his contemporary, so that the Holy Prophet sa may die a physical death while any other prophet may be physically alive contemporaneously and (God forbid) may see the physical death of the Holy Prophet sa before his own eventual death. In the real sense too, the Holy Prophet sa is final to all the prophets and it is not possible for the spiritual munificence of any previous prophet to continue to be operative and cause anyone to be blessed with even a minor spiritual station, after the advent of the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa. With his advent, the spiritual munificence of all the other prophets came to an end, but his own spiritual munificence will continue till the end of time. And all those spiritual benefits and blessings which the followers of the previous prophets used to receive, will now be delivered, in manifold strength, exclusively at the bounteous hand of the Holy Prophet sa till the end of time. In short, we believe in every sense—physical as well as real, spiritual as well as exegetical—