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l\fiddle period of Islam (died in A. H, 872). It should be remembered that I am not_ reproducing here ali the references but only quoting a few to serve as ex- ampl~s, to show that the views of the Ahmadiyya Community on •o ,:i ~' are, in no way novel ones and that, on the contrary 1 these have been, at large, shared by leading scholars, reformers, and Divines in every period of Islamic era. With this object in view, some opinions. have been quoted above and a few more are being reporduced in the following pages. Hazrat Maulana Rumi, whose MasnaYi is widely popular among Muslims and is accepted as a repository of spiritual truths and lofty wisdom, says : J. J, ~,; L ,,;1:. . . ;', J: :: ,,yi; h:j. Aj;, ('° Iii. !. ~. ;A"j/. ~t~f1L. ; ~,,c,~~~. ,f~ , ~r p;;,r,,; L°d/uP) 11 He (the Holy Prophet) has been declared the seal, for he had no peer in generosity before him, nor shall there be one after him. When an artist excels others in art, you say not 'The art has ended with thee'. "I This is a very clear and lucid·. exposition indeed. Hazrat Maul1ma R umi (May Allah have mercy on him) warns against interpreting Khatamannabiyeen in the sense that-the Holy Prophet had thereby discontinu- ed the current of Allah's favours; on the contrary he (Allah bless him)°is exalted among prophets and epito- mizes in his person all the perfection of prophets in their highest degree and most proportionate form. As an example, he says, as no one says of a matchless artist that art had ended with him ao dnea the ending of J. Mu,navi· Section ·6 Page 8.