Tadhkirah — Page 898
898 [Urdu] God’s feeling 1088 and His seal have accomplished such a high design, that is, God felt the need of the time, and His feeling, and the Seal of prophethood which carries great grace, have accomplished a great task. In other words, there are two objectives of your being commissioned: (1) Feeling by God of the need of the time and (2) The grace bestowed by the Seal of the Holy Prophet sa. [Arabic] I am with you and with the members of your family, and with all those who love you. 1088 This revelation means that God felt that in this age the world had been so corrupted that it is in need of a great reformer and God’s Seal achieved this purpose that a follower of the Holy Prophet, on whom be the peace and blessings of Allah, has been raised to a rank whereby he is a follower in one respect and a Prophet in another respect because Allah the Glorious, made the Holy Prophet on whom be the peace and blessings of Allah, the owner of the Seal [of the Prophets]. That is to say, He invested him with a seal for the purpose of perfecting the spiritual evolution of his followers with which no other Prophet had been invested, therefore, he was named the Seal of the Prophets. This means that perfect obedience to him would make a person worthy of achieving the qualities of Prophethood and his spiritual attention would raise a person to Prophethood. No other Prophet has been invested with this spiritual faculty. The same is the import of the h ad i th , that is, the ulema of my ummah will be like the Prophets of Ban i Isr a ’ i l. Many Prophets did appear in Ban i Isr a ’ i l, but their Prophethood was not a consequence of following M u s a [Moses]; instead they were bestowed directly by God. They had nothing to do with being the followers of Hadrat M u s a as ,. That is why they were not granted the titles of both a Prophet and a follower like me. Rather, they were called Prophet in their own right and were bestowed Prophethood directly. Leaving them aside, when we look at the rest of Ban i Isr a ’ i l, we find that they partook very little of goodness, and righteousness. Moreover, the followers of Hadrat M u s a and Hadrat ‘ I s a [Jesus] were generally deprived of auliy a ’ull a h (the saints)—a rare occurrence of someone like that does not count. [ H aq iq atu l -Wa hi , pp. 96–97 footnote, R uha n i Khaz a ’in, vol. 22, pp. 99–101 footnote]