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the righteous, the Witnesses and the Pious, does the cumulative. sense of the two verses dealing with this subject, mean anything but that the door to the grace of prophethood is as much open to this people who are by the grace of God, His elect, as are the doors to righteousness, martyrdom and piousness. Any other in- terpretation would expose the honour of the Holy God to the slur that while on the one hand He induces His servants to supplicate for a particular favour, on the other hand, He withdraws His extended hand forth- with, refusing to bestow the said !:?lessing. Allah the High is too exalted and holy to be made fu-n of. It is, however, a. matter of indescribable pleasure (and it. is truly a miracle of the Holy Quran) that even if the two verses quoted above are not taken together as we have done in the foregoing lines, severally too, they (the above-quoted verses of the Sura Fatiha and Surii Nisa) clearly and unequivocally stand for continuation of prophethood in the l\luhammadan dispensation. The relevant words of the Sura Fatiha are reproduced below : "Lead us along the right way, the way of those whom Thou hast favoured" ,I Now it is clear that, even in the absence of the verse of the Sura Nisa, the above quoted verse of Sura Fatiha is in itself a- conclusive and sure testimony of the fact that l\luslims are eligible to all the favours granted severally heretofore to the preceding dispensa- tions. }"'or, when Allah himself teaches a prayer to seek His favours in general terms and without any qualification or reservation, it would logically mean that doors to all the favours are open to the petitioner, -- l. Sura Fatiha.