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( 21 ) that by following him, by following his Sharia , one could rise to be a Nabi ; that without rendering superlative obedience to him, no one could rise to this – the highest elevation attainable for a human being. Since, however, his Sharia is to remain valid for all times to come, he was also the Last of the Prophets, in this sense as well. Again, while dwelling on the most elevated position of the Holy Prophet, and his power to bless and benefit, the Promised Messiah writes: “Apart from him, no other Prophet has owned a seal. There is he, the only one, by whose Seal, one can rise to be a Prophet of the kind for which a necessary condition is that he should also be an Ummati. ” (page 28) Again he has written: “Through the blessings resulting from following in the footsteps of the Holy Prophet Mohammad, there have been thousands of Aulia and also the one who is an Ummati , and at the same time a Nabi as well. ” ( Haqiqatul Wahyi , footnote, page 28) Thus, in the Ummat of the Holy Prophet during the thirteen hundred years since his time there has been only one Ummati Prophet. Now who is he? The Promised Messiah answers this question: “Themselves, they read in Ahadith reports which prove, in the Ummat of the Holy Prophet, there would be people of eminence, like the Prophets among the Israelites; and there would be one, who from one angle, would be a Nabi , a Prophet, while from another angle, he would be an Ummati ; and he would be the one called the Promised Messiah. ” ( Haqiqatul Wahyi , footnote, Page 101) These quotations indicate that in between the Holy Prophet Mohammad and the Promised Messiah, there have been thousands of auliya ; but only one Ummati Nabi so far, who is the Promised Messiah. Therefore, just where we find Maulvi Mohammad Ali saying that the kind of Nabuwwat which came to the share of the Promised Messiah, the same Nabuwwat also to share of Hazrat Ali as well, it involves, in fact, a turning away on his part from the writings of the Promised Messiah. The creed held by the Promised Messiah, we find described by him in another place, as follows: “No Prophet, with a new Sharia , can come; but a Prophet, not bearing a new law, can most surely appear. Necessarily however, he would have to be one who is first and foremost an Ummati. ” ( Tajalliyat-i-Ilahiya , Page 25)