Absolute Justice, Kindness and Kinship — Page 310
Covenants, their Different Categories, Punishments and Rewards 303 … … … teaches them the Book and wisdom… (S u rah al-Jumu‘ah; Ch. 62: V. 3) Prophets as who do not bring new Books but follow another Law-bearing Prophet, continue this work of explaining the wisdom of the Book to the future generations who face new challenges to justify their teaching. The covenant of Prophets as does not leave out the possibility of a non Law-bearing Prophet as following a Law-bearing Prophet as. The people of the Law-bearing Prophet as cannot object to their appearance by declaring; the Book has already been revealed and its wisdom has already been taught to us, what more can you add to this? In answer to this inherent question, the covenant clearly dictates that even the Prophets as who do not bring a new Book but testify to the previous one, may not be rejected as superfluous because they would serve the cause of the previous Book and further explain its wisdom in response to the new challenges. To support such a Prophet would be to one’s own advantage. This covenant of the Prophets as , fully discussed in S u rah al -e-‘Imr a n, is also mentioned to have been taken from the Holy Prophet sa in S u rah al-A h z a b. This verse found in the same S u rah (al-A h z a b) speaks of Hadrat Muhummad sa as being Kh a tamun Nabiyy i n. If the word Kh a tam is to be translated as the last of the Prophets as after whom no Prophet of any description