True Insights into the Concept of Khatm-e-Nubuwwat — Page 29
A Review of the Pakistani Government’s “White Paper”: Qadiyaniyyat—A Grave Threat to Islam [ 29 ] This is the viewpoint that the Government of Pakistan wants to thrust upon Muslims all over the world. We say to them, if you say that all doors to prophethood are closed and no Prophet can come, then why are you waiting for Jesus Christ? Forget about him and relax. If no one is going to come, then all doors are closed. The opponents would say not at all, because the Holy Prophet sa is the last Prophet to be commissioned. Any Prophet who had been commis- sioned before the Holy Prophet sa could come again. They argue that all the past scholars believed the same thing, but that is a blatant lie. According to the above quotation, this is the interpretation of the foolish and un-enlightened. Moreover, there is no glory in it for the Holy Prophet sa. In the same context, Hadrat Mu hy- ud-D i n Ibn-e-‘Arab i , the world renowned Muslim scholar and commentator (died 638 A. H. ), writes: Prophethood continues in the creation till the Day of Judgment, although law-bearing prophethood has ended. Bringing down a law is just a part of prophet- hood. ( Al-Fut uha tul-Makkiyyah , vol. 3, ch. 73, p. 159).