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with law to exercise it over. man. "1 1'he above pronouncement of Hazrat Shah Waliullah (Allah have mercy on him) is self-explana- tory. Hazrat Shah Sahib is at one with us when he declares the door of law-bearing prophethood only to have been closed ·after the Holy Prophet (Allah bless him). We have already proved that every prophet need not necessarily bear a new law, for, as Hazrat Muhayyuddin 11:>ne Ai:abi says, law is but a part of prophethood and not the whole prophethood. The Quran, the Hadith and history bear. testimany to the fact that many a prophet ·came to the world without a new law and were enjoined to serve the former laws. This verdict of Hazrat Shah Waliullah Dehlavi is a decisive finding for those Muslims who respect his authority. Not only Hazrat Shah Waliullah but his entire family is held in high esteem in the Indo-Pak sub-continent because of their learning and erudition. It is there- fore up to you to accept this. testimony. Now we enter upon what may be rightly termed as our own times, on account of the close proximity of this period with our early days, which are possibly for man:v people the days of their living memory. The testimony now I am about to cite should have a special significance!' for the spiritually con- scientious, as, it is of comparatively early time~ and to be more exact, was placed on record hardly a few years before the Hazrat Promised Messiah, Founder of the Ahmadiyy·a Movement (peace of Allah be on him) announced his claims. This testi- mony was given by Hazrat • Maulvi Muhammad Qasim Nanotvi, the ·renowned founder of the Madrasa- tululum, Deoband (died in 1889 A. D. ). Says the Maulvi Sahib : "In the conception of the masses the Holy Prophet (Allah bless him) was Khatam in the 1. Ta/himat,i-llahiyya Ta/him. 63. 189