True Insights into the Concept of Khatm-e-Nubuwwat — Page 35
A Review of the Pakistani Government’s “White Paper”: Qadiyaniyyat—A Grave Threat to Islam [ 35 ] Throughout the history of Islam, this concept of Khatm-e-Nubuwwat [i. e. the concept of being the last with reference to time] has been part of the basic beliefs of Islam and has left an indelible mark on the outlook, conduct, and psyche of Muslims. (Q a diy a- niyyat—Islam kei liye eik Sang i n Kha t rah, p. 5) If you examine the history of Islam, there is no sign of such a mark. As I have mentioned, the Muslim scholars who are amongst the honoured saints, including some of the most highly renowned Su f i s, do not seem to have been influ- enced by this concept. Where did the authors of the so- called White Paper find the idea of the indelible mark. Surely, this mark must be somewhere. As they did not get it from the past Muslim scholars, they must have acquired it from somewhere else. The Holy Qur‘an has pointed out from where they have taken the concept of finality in terms of time. Allah the Almighty says in the Holy Qur’an: