Truth about Khatm-e-Nabuwat — Page 63
Messiah ,ras as much a prophet of God as am I and. though· he is my servant, my disciple and my reflection nonetheless, he undoubtedly is a proph~t. For, I stan~ on one end of the dispens- ation and he stands at the other and there is no prophet in between. " This tradition is so manifestly clear that no open: minded person will have any hesitation in acceptiμg it without the least shadow of· a doub~. Beside, the observation °there is no prophet between me and him" warns against accepting ariy claimant. to prophethood as genuine before the advent of. the· Promised Messiah, as, ''There is no prophet between him a_nd m_e". It is 11 double-edged weapon ; on the one •h an d it confirms the bonatides of the Promised Messiah and on_ the other wams the Muslims against the claimants rising before his. appearance, condemning them as anti-Christ and false. There may be a tendency in some minds, to apply this hadith to the Messiah of Nazarath (peace of Allah be on him). It would be sheer insanity to do so, for, the Holy Prophet (peace of Allah be on him •and His choicest blessings ever and evermore) says Jj\i 4il • "verily he is coming. ". In the face of this clear and definite observat• ion, no person, in his senses,. would connect it with the Messiah of Nazareth. Moreover, the further observation in this context "he will fight the people for Islam" shows that the coming M~ssiah will appear in the Islamic dispensation, at a time when Islam will be exposed to the attacks of other faiths and he wiU then fight other religio11s in support of Islain ; and again the words • •He will break the cross" i. e. this Divine reformer will appear at a time when the religion of cross will have reached the summit of its glory and he will then shatter 68