Truth Prevails — Page 64
( 64 ) replace the Holy Quran, since Sharia embodied in it had been completed and made perfect. Therefore, to the end of days, Wahyi to replace the Islamic Sharia can never come, not even for making minor modifications. In the above quotation from Izala-i-Auham , by Wahyi of Nabuwwat , the Promised Messiah, in fact, means the Wahyi which comes down on a law-giving prophet, or an independent prophet. It is our genuine and deep conviction that this kind of prophet cannot come now. According to the Promised Messiah, one meaning of Wahyi of Nabuwwat is also the Wahyi wherein the recipient is called a Nabi. In ‘ Arbayeen ’ he has quoted a verse from the Quran: “If he had. forged on us anything We had not said, indeed We would have caught him by his right hand, and cut open his jugular vein. ” The Promised Messiah quoted this verse in support of his claim, since he had passed the period of 23 years which was given to the Holy Prophet himself. To this the critic said that even a false Prophet could get this span of life subsequently to the public presentation of his fraudulent claim. In reply to this question, the Promised Messiah wrote: “From this it stands proved that all the sacred Scriptures from the Lord God are fully agreed on the point that a false prophet is invariably destroyed, root and branch. For anyone to urge, here, that the emperor Akbar made the claim, or that Raushan Din Jallandhri did so, or someone else, and he was not destroyed within time margin – this is an additional absurdity committed by these people. Evidently, if it is really true that these people ever made a claim, that, they were prophets, and then were not destroyed for 23 years this must first be proved on the basis of the exact words wherein they made this stupendous claim. In fact, the exact text of the Revelation must be reproduced in which they received the Wahyi that ‘I am an Apostle of the Lord’. The exact words should be set down of this Wahyi , with the proof in support of this Wahyi being genuine. For all this discourse is on the Wahyi of Nabuwwat in this connection it is of the utmost importance that definite words should be put forth as having been received in Revelation, that this was the Word of God come down on them. ” ( ‘Arbayeen , page 125) Since in the Wahyi received by the Promised Messiah, he had been called Prophet and Apostle, in this sense the Wahyi under reference was also the Wahyi of Nabuwwat. Yet, of course, it is true that he was not a mustaqil , not an independent Prophet and Apostle, i. e. , he had not reached this elevation without the saving grace of obedience to the Holy Prophet and the spiritual blessing emanating from him, so that the Promised Messiah was a Nabi from one angle, and an Ummati from another – a zilli Nabi , to put it in another style of expression.