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can cut across the term of the Muhammadan Prophet- hood, and initiate a new dispensation putting a period on Muhammadan dispensation. On the co!1t• rary whoever comes shall be to the Prophet hke a branch to the tree and shall seek his light from the apostle's and thus his. prophethood shall subsist in Muhammadan Prophethood and not be extraneous thereto. The great reformers and Divines of Islam have time and again upheld this sublime truth. Even tlie Holy P1,ophet's favourite wife Hazrat Aysha (Allah be pleased with her) said,. -~~ ~~ T,l,:u'y. , s rt·~lr:lu. . ~!l,J,i I 1. . ••w A••-•-~-£!- ll>~. J~JJ. . :. ;;;. ,I. JF. 'lc;,>,,r) "Say that he is the seal of Prophets but say not that there is no prophet after hini". I The Maulvi of today is certainly hugging the low earth. and dare not reach out to our kind mother's loftiness of thought. She is clearly elabo- rating the tradition (lS. Nlf is:J ~) which she fears lest hasty-minded people, failing to reali~ its true meaning, should fall in the error of construing as finally bolting the door on prophethood after the Holy Prophet and warning in a revealing manner against this obvious mistake, enjoins reading the tradition (lS. Nlf ~ ~) in the light of the verse (. :,r,:. 11 ~i;,:. ) as the latter contains the essence of reality. Clearly -the tradition (lS. lai c,r. i ~) is capable only of two possible inter-pretations : one whil'h our opponents put forth, namely, that the door of every type of prophethood has been finally sealed l. TokmUa Mojma Ul-Bilur p 86 afld Dur-i-Manthur Yo/, Y. 90