Truth Prevails — Page 44
( 44 ) “In short, in point of the amplitude of Wahyi from Allah, and knowledge of things in realms of the Unknown, I am the only specific individual; before my time, in the entire number of Auliya , Abdal , and Aqtab , in this Ummat , from me, no one has been given this abundance. On this basis I am the only one singled out to be called a Nabi. ” In this passage, if the word Nabi is replaced with Mohaddath , the entire passage becomes meaningless. For, in that case, the meaning of the piece is reduced to just this that in the entire Ummat , up to the time, he was the only man specified to receive the title of Mohaddath. Among the previous Auliya , there was no one deserving to be called a Mohaddath. It is evident, therefore, that at the time when the Promised Messiah wrote these words, he had come to the conclusion that his own rank as a Nabi was superior to that of the Mohaddathin in this Ummat. Denial by the Promised Messiah of the view that he was only a Mohaddath Clear proof that in 1901 the Promised Messiah had abandoned the view that he was a Nabi , only in the sense of a Mohaddath lies in the fact that in the Leaflet entitled ‘ Removal of an Error ’, published in 1901, he wrote: “If a man, who receives from Allah knowledge of things in the realms of the Unknown, is not to be called a Nabi , then please tell us by what name and title he is to be known? If you say he should be known as a Mohaddath , I would like to say that the meaning of Tahdith is not given in any standard lexicon as revealment of ghaib. The meaning of Nabuwwat , on the other hand is, revealment of things wrapped up still in veils of the Unknown. ” It is quite clear here that at the time the Promised Messiah was writing this he was in fact saying that to know him as Mohaddath , did not convey a correct awareness of his eminence and rank. A proper awareness, in this respect, demanded that he should be known and recognised as a Nabi. The idea of Mr. Faruqi, therefore, is quite wrong that: “Hazrat Mirza Sahib stuck to the same ‘claim’ from the start to the finish. Unfortunately the fanciful followers of his took the metaphor in his writings to be real; and just like the followers of Jesus Christ, who up-lifted him from the rank of a Prophet to that of a son of God, and to a Godhead in the Trinity, similarly quite a number of the followers of the Promised Messiah amongst the Muslims uplifted him from the position of Mohaddath (endowed with a partial prophethood, i. e. the receiver of glad tidings) to the rank of a full-fledged prophet, without a ‘Book’. (Truth Triumphs. page 19) Dear Mr. Faruqi the claim of the Promised Messiah, right from the beginning, has been just that Allah had called him a Prophet, and an Apostle, on the background of an abundance of tangible communion with the Lord