True Insights into the Concept of Khatm-e-Nubuwwat — Page 115
A Review of the Pakistani Government’s “White Paper”: Qadiyaniyyat—A Grave Threat to Islam [ 115 ] This statement is self explanatory. The ulema assert that Ibn-e-‘Arab i is referring to the old ‘ I s a. However, at another place, Hadrat Mu hy- ud-D i n Ibn-e-‘Arab i , himself says: He is bound to descend in the Latter Days in a new physical form. ( Tafs i rul-Qur ’a nil-Kar i m, by Ibn-e- ‘Arab i , vol. 1, p. 296) Here, note that Hadrat Ibn-e-‘Arab i states emphatically that the Messiah would be a new Messiah and that he will be a Prophet. Despite all this evidence, our opponents would continue to insist that there will be no new Prophet. We now quote from Im a m Ibn-e-Qayyim’s book. He writes: To say that Prophet Jesus as had gone to the heavens at the age of thirty three is by no means correct. Nor has it been handed down to us in an uninterrupted chain of narration. It therefore need not be adopted. ( Z a dul-Ma‘ a d f i hadyi khairil-‘ib a d, by Ibn al- Qayyim al-Jauziyyah [691–751 AH], p. 27, Mu’assas- atur-Ris a lati N a shirun, Beirut, 2006). Moreover, the author of Fat’ h ul- Bay a n f i Maq a sidil-Qur’ a n says that according to Im a m Sham i : the narration that Prophet Jesus as was raised to the heavens alive is of Chris- tian origin. ( Fat’ h ul- Bay a n f i Maq a sidil-Qur’ a n , vol. 2, p. 247)