Truth about Khatm-e-Nabuwat — Page 8
the Q11ranic text as well as in history, there are three categories of prophets. Firstly those who bring a new Divine Law such as ,1oses who brought the Torah or our Holy prophet (Allah bless him) who was commissioned with the Holy Quran. Such prophets are categorized as law-bearing or legishting prophets. Secondly, the prophets who bear no new law but serve the existing law, their Prophethood, however, being an independent grace, which they attain not through subservience to a'nother prophet but directly, such as David, Solomon, Zakariya, Yahya and Isa (Allah bless them) who made their advent after :\loses (peace of Allnh be on him). All, these prophets were followers of the Mosaic law and were appointed to uphold it as is borne out by the Holy Quran, the ToraJ} and t. he New Testament, but they were inde- pendent prophets, owing the gift not to their subOl'di- nation to 1\loses but as a direct grace of God on their own merits and were after initiation assigned service· to l\losaic Dispensatiofl. Such prophets are categorized as independent though they are not law- givers. This is why, it· must be no~d, that inspite of subordination to their predeceAisor law-giving prophet, they cherish no spec-ial personal devotion to him. As for instance we fail to notice any per- sonal. devotion and affection for Moses in the heart of Messiah in spite of the latter being subordinate to the law of the former; he rather seems to be emotionally concerned as little as is the magistrate of one District, on transfer in ordinary course to another District, under a new Collector of a new District. In the third category comes the prophet who is neither a law-giver nor has been graced directly with prophethood independently of allegiance to the former prophet but his Prophetic attribute is a reftection of his preceptor Prophet and a gift bestow- ed on him through his grace and is a glimmer· of his light. As for example, if a gardener engages, for the maintenance of his garden, his own son as a 8