True Insights into the Concept of Khatm-e-Nubuwwat — Page 58
[ 58 ] was made keeping in view the advent of Hadrat ‘ I s a (Jesus Christ). The Im a m adds that Hadrat ‘ A’ ishah’s ra advice was in no way in conflict with the h ad i th , L a Nabiyya ba‘d i , because by those words, the Holy Prophet sa only meant that there can be no law-bearing Prophet in the future who will abrogate his Shar i ‘ah and Law. According to Im a m Ta hir, there were two reasons why Hadrat ‘ A ’ishah ra forbade the use of the phrase “No Prophet after him. ” First, it blocks the coming the Messiah. See how the verdict of a righteous scholar differs from the clerics of today! When the clerics of today say that the Mes- siah can come, but no one else, they misinterpret the phrase. If the Holy Prophet sa meant a total termination of prophethood after him, he would have said l a yak u na ba‘d i Nabbiyy u n —no Prophet would be raised after me. What he said was: L a Nabiyya ba‘d i —there is no Prophet after me. If these people insist that L a Nabiyya ba‘d i means total termi- nation of prophethood, then they close the door to the sec- ond coming of the Messiah as. The second reason that Im a m Muhammad Ta hir gives is that the Holy Prophet sa was not closing the door of prophethood, but only of the law-bearing prophethood that would abrogate his law.