Truth about Khatm-e-Nabuwat — Page 41
"Allah caused all excellence to end with him it means that all excellence found greatest expres- sion in him,,. When it is said of an artist that a particular art ended with him, even a schoolboy knows that the person under reference attained the utmost perfection in his art and not that there would henceforth be no artist after him. Such expressions are common in e,•ery language. Anyway its meaning ev·en with 0. 1-3 under_. ::. . is clear and too plain to present any difficulty. It is in this sense that Hazrat Maulana Rumi (died in A. H. 672) said in his l\:lasnavi : I ,;. :J,, ~,):li;,~'{7- l. . ,. . ,. ,,;;_. ,; i. . J, ~ ,. ~, ·• ~ , 'fr ;,v;;, if,,,; l. f ?). . He is Khatam for the reason of his being with- out a peer in bounty, both before and after (his time). "1 B~iefly. spea½ing,. . the '!ord ,. . ;1;. read in ei~h~r render mg with e-' on ·. . . . , or with o ;J under ~ (as 1t 1s found ii\ the former form in all the copies of the Holy Book in Pakistan, India and other countries and in the latte1· form in some oft. he works embodying com- mentaries), does not carry the meaning of termination of prophethood. In tite former rendering the expression means 'the Seal of Prophets', thus signifying that there shall henceforth be no prophet but one bearing the certifying seal or the Holy Prophet (peace be on him and Allah's blessings), his disciple, servant and spiritual beneficiary, With o_,. . . . f" under o the expression indicates pei:fection in excellences of Prophethood, l. · M,isna1·i R11nli, Vo/. vi, p. 6.