Nubuwwat & Khilafat Prophethood & its Successorship — Page 9
Nubuwwat of the Promised Messiah 9 of Group have declared acceptance of the nubuwwat and ris a lat of the Promised Messiah as. The references follow: True Meaning of Khatm-e-Nubuwwat Maulav i Muhammad ‘Al i , who, from March 15, 1914 to October 13, 1951, was the am i r of the Ahmadiyyah Anjuman- e-Ish a ‘at-e-Islam [the people who denied prophethood after the first Khalifah ] writes: This Community believes that the Holy Prophet sa is Kh a taman-Nabiyy i n in the truest sense. We believe that any Nab i , whether old or new, cannot come by acquiring the status of nubuwwat without the intermediation of the Holy Prophet sa. After the Holy Prophet sa , Almighty Allah has closed all doors of nubuwwat and ris a lat , but the door has not been closed for the perfect followers of the Holy Prophet sa who follow him completely and acquire the Light of God by fully adopting the colour of his perfect morals, because they are a reflection of the same holy and exalted personage. Other Muslims believe that Prophet ‘ I s a as who passed away six hundred years before him, will return—this belief definitely breaks the Khatm-e-Nubuwwat. ( Review of Religions , Urdu, May 1908, p. 186) True Significance of L a Nabiyya Ba‘d i Maulav i ‘Umar D i n of Simla said: Our opponents have raised great clamour in interpreting l a nabiyya ba‘d i [there is no Nab i after me]. In their speeches, they repeatedly refer to this and thereby declare that the claims of the Promised Messiah as amounted to kufr and dajj a liyyat [appearance of Antichrist]. The truth is that the condition of these people is like the leaders of the Jews. The meaning of there being no Nab i after the Holy Prophet sa is that there cannot be a Ras u l who brings a new nubuwwat or shar i ‘ah.