Truth Prevails — Page 34
( 34 ) “The advent of Hazrat Isa towards the later days would be in a different body. ” ( Tafsir Sheikh-i-Akbar Hashia, Araisul Bayan) So this statement by Mr. Faruqi is wrong that: “Most of the Muslim savants of old did accept the coming of Jesus Christ again into this world, but not as a full-fledged Prophet. ” (Truth Triumphs, page 12) Writes Mr. Faruqi: “In reality the tradition about the Mojaddids is a sure argument in favour of the finality of Prophethood with Hazrat Mohammad, peace and the blessings of Allah be upon him; for if there was any chance of any ‘Prophet’ coming afterwards, then the promise about Mojaddids would not have been given. A promise is made about the best gift to be given, not over an inferior one. ” In reply, let it be clear that Mojaddidiyat , does not exclude Nabuwwat. In his Hujjatulahil Baligha. Shah Waliullah has called Prophets coming among the Jews, after Moses, as so many Mojaddids of the dispensation of Moses. Nor is Khatm-i-Nabuwwat any kind of bar against the advent of Prophets in Ummat. Had the Promised Messiah taken it to be a bar, he certainly would not have claimed that from one aspect he was a Prophet, from another angle an Ummati. We find the Holy Prophet Mohammad himself saying: “Abu Bakr stands at the highest eminence in this Ummat , except that a Prophet should rise among them. ” (Kanzul Haqaiq fi Hadith Khairil Khalaiq, Page 4) In the words illa anyakuna Nabiyun , (except that a Prophet should happen to rise among them) the possibility of some Mojaddid being a Prophet has not been taken by the Holy Prophet as standing against Khatm-i- Nabuwwat. In Nozulul Masih the Promised Messiah calls himself a Mojaddid , and writes, in addition: “I am the Promised Messiah, even the same, by the Chiefest among the Prophets, who has been called Nabi-Ullah. ” (Nozulul Masih, Page 40) We find, thus, that denial on the part of Mr. Faruqi of any possibility in the Hadith of the advent of any Prophet among the Muslims is a denial, in fact, of those writings of the Promised Messiah wherein, on the basis of Hadith, he upholds the Promised Messiah to be called a Nabi. Over a period of thirteen hundred years, he has not held anyone else deserving to be called by this name and title as we indicated earlier in this discourse.