The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 179
THE PROMISED MESSIAH AND MAHDI. Another example of 'Ma-aa' in the Holy Quran is the following (literal translation), "Our Lord, forgive us, therefore, our sins and remit from us our evils and give us death with the righteous". (3:194). Here 'Ma-aa' (with) does not mean that give us death when some other righteous person is going to die. But it means that we should be righteous when death overtakes us. . I hope that this point is clear now. . Now the second point was about a Hadith of the Holy Prophet. in which he said, 'there is no prophet after me'. . About Hadith one principle must be remembered that we. Muslims are not bound to accept any Hadith which clearly contradicts the Holy Quran. The Holy Prophet simply could not have contradicted the Holy Quran. There is not a single verse in the Holy. Quran which says that there cannot be any kind of prophet after the. Holy Prophet. The fact is contrary as we have discussed that there can be a follower prophet for whom the Holy Prophet is the seal. . As far as this particular Hadith is concerned, we accept it but with an interpretation. The correct interpretation of this Hadith, "There is no prophet after me" is the following: (1. ). There cannot be any prophet after me who may abrogate my Sharia because my Sharia is permanent and there is no. Sharia after it. (2. ) There cannot be any prophet after me who may cut short my period of prophethood and start a new period of prophethood. But whosoever will come will be my branch and will receive his light of prophethood from me. His prophethood will be part of my prophethood and not outside it. . This interpretation of this Hadith has been given by Hadhrat. Mirza Bashir Ahmad M. A. He was a great scholar of Islam. . Hadhrat Sheikh Akbar Muhiyyuddin Ibne Arabi, an eminent authority in Islam (Died 638 AH) is of the view: "The prophethood that terminated with the person of the Holy. Prophet, peace be on him, was the law bearing prophethood and not just prophethood itself". (Futuha-te-Makkiya Vol. II. P. 73). 179