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susceptible of any objection as, it is admitted on all hands, that the Holy Prophet. was commissioned with a final and ever-lasting code and his period extends_ till the Doomsday. The Holy Prophet declared so very often. On one occasion raising his hand, he joined his two fingers and emphasizeq: i:,J~ ~l-11. , lH. . ::. . !~ "I and the Doomsday are adjacent to each other as are these two finger~ of my hand" ,1 (i. e. there is no gap between the two. )- Since the terdi of the Prophet's dispensation extends to eternity, IS~ ~ ':J ( There is no prophet after me ) sha. 11,in the sense of vi L. j iJ _); necessarily mean that there is no such prophet after him as would put a period to his term which extends to the Doomsday. It is a pity that, due to their myopic conception, our opponents limit the meaning of <. S~ •( after me ) to the physical life-time of the Holy Prophet, while the Prophet meant ( and truly in consonance with his lofty station) that his term was ever-lasting and that there. could not be a prophet who will cut across his jurisdiction and. his te:::-m. The word cS-'--! ( after), it must be carefully noted, is thus capable of expressing • only one sense, that c,f termination of the Prophet's period and suspension of his Law and appearance of a new prophet. That has been expressly negatived as the Prophet's term extends to the Day of Judgment and shall not come to an end. The tradition cS~u:3 ':Jpoints to this subtle • and learned interpretation. It js painful to obierve how the materialistic- minded shallow thinkers have limited its significance to his physical life-time thus lowering the loftiness of its conception. 1. Bakh,rri Kitab ,,J·l-Tofn,. 88