The Essence of Islam – Volume I — Page 257
The Holy Prophetsa 257 of them, and beside it all ways are closed and all verities are included in it. No new verity will arrive after it as there was no verity before it which is not included in it. Therefore, all. Prophethood ends with this Prophethood; and so it should have been, for everything that has a beginning, has also an end, but the Muḥammadi Prophethood is not deficient in beneficence. It is more beneficent than all other. Prophethood. Following this Prophethood, one reaches. God in a very easy manner, and by following it one is bestowed the bounty of Divine love and Divine converse more than was possible before. . Its perfect follower cannot be called simply a Prophet for this would be an insult to the perfect Muḥammadī. Prophethood. He can be called a follower of the Holy. Prophet and a Prophet, both together, for in this there is no insult of the perfect Muḥammadi Prophethood, but its grace shines forth even to a greater degree. [al-Waşiyyat, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, Vol. 20, p. 311]. We affirm that the person who moves away in the slightest degree from the law of the Holy Prophet [peace and blessings of Allāh be on him] is a kāfir. When anyone who turns away from following the Holy Prophet [peace and blessings of Allāh be on him] is a kāfir in our estimation, then what about one who should claim to bring a new law, or should make a change in the Holy Qur'ān and the Sunnah of the Holy Prophet [peace and blessings of Allāh be on him] or should abrogate any commandment?. In our estimation only that person is a believer who truly follows the Holy Qur'ān, and believes it to be the last revealed Book, and accepts the law that the Holy Prophet [peace and blessings of Allāh be on him] brought into the