Tabligh Guide — Page 66
(American Edition) 66 32. A monarch is Khātam -ul- Ḥukkām, chief of the rulers. (Ḥ ujjat-ul- Islām, p. 35) 33. Ḥ a ḍrat ‘Īsā is Khātam -ul-A ṣfiyā -ul- A’immah, chief of the chosen leaders. (Baqiyyatul- Mutaqaddimīn, p. 184) 34. Ḥ a ḍrat ‘Alī is Khātam -ul-Au ṣiya, Chief of the Successors by Will. (Manār - ul-H udā, p. 109) 35. Al-Shaikh Al- Ṣadūq has been described as Khātam -ul-Mu ḥaddithīn, Chief of the Specialists in Ḥadīth. (Book: Man Lā Yaḥḍ uruhul- Faqīh) 36. ‘Abul -Fa ḍl Shahāb al - Alūsī (773 -854: A. H. /1371-1450 A. D. ) is noted as Khātam -ul- Udabā, chief of the specialists in literature. (Title page of Rūḥ -ul- Ma‘ānī) 37. The author of Rūḥ -ul- Ma‘ānī has described Al - Shaikh lbrāhīm -al- Kurānī as Khātam -ul- Muta’akhkhirīn, Chief of the people of the Latter Days. (Tafsīr Rūḥ -ul- Ma‘ānī, vol. 5, p. 453) 38. Maul awī Anwar Sh ā h Kashm ī r ī has been described as Khātam -ul- Mu ḥaddithīn, Chief of the specialists in Ḥadīth. (Book: Ra’īs -ul-A ḥrār, p. 99) 39. Ḥ a ḍ rat Far ī d-ud-D īn ‘A ṭṭ ār (513 -620 A. H. /1116-1223 A. D. ) said about Ḥ a ḍ rat ‘ Umar, متخرکدہدعلوااصنشفقحب ات رفاتسربوہازرمدم قبس “He took his justice and equality to the very end, for the sake of Allāh; until his wisdom excelled that of all other human beings. ” (Mantiqut - Ṭ air, p. 29) 40. Maulānā Ḥālī wrote about Shaikh Sa‘dī: “In my view, just as the descriptive power ends with Firdausī in such areas as satire and sarcasm as well as war epics in much the same way when it comes to morals, worship and exhortation, youth and romance, comedy and humor, worship and ostentation, the power of description ends with the Shaikh. ” (Risālah Ḥayāt -i- Sa‘di, p. 108) 41. Ḥ a ḍrat Maulawī Muḥammad Qāsim Nā notv ī (1148-1297 A. H. ) wrote: So, therefore one who exhibits a greater manifestation in him of that particular attribute which is the ultimate attribute (Kh ā tam-u ṣ - Ṣifāt). There is no other attrib ute above this which can possibly be manifested, that is, worthy of being transferred to or conferred upon other creatures that particular person will occupy the ultimate rank (Kh ā tam-ul- Marātib) among those creatures, and the same person will be the chief of them all and superior to everyone else. ” (Risālah Intiṣār -ul- Islām, p. 45)