The Essence of Islam – Volume I — Page 267
The Holy Prophetsa 267 is found that is needed by a seeker to arrive at the highest grades of understanding. [Surmah Chashm Āryā, Rūḥānī Khaza'in, Vol. 2, pp. 71-72, footnote]. The Holy Prophet [peace and blessings of Allāh be on him] was the best of the Prophets and had a higher status than all the Messengers, and God desired that as by his personal qualities he was the Chief of all the Prophets, so from the point of view of his overt services also, he might be proclaimed to the world as better and higher than all. Therefore, God Almighty extended his beneficence to the whole of mankind, so that his efforts and his endeavours might be generally manifested and should not be confined to a particular people, as was the case with. Moses and Jesus, and so that enduring severe persecution from every direction and every people, he should be entitled to the great reward which will not be bestowed upon other Prophets. [Brāhīn-e-Ahmadiyya, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, Vol. 1, pp. 653-654]. It is my belief that if, leaving the Holy Prophet [peace and blessings of Allāh be on him] aside, all the Prophets who had preceded him had combined to perform the task and to carry out the reform which the Holy Prophet [peace and blessings of Allāh be on him] performed and carried out, they would not have been able to do so. They had not the heart and the strength which had been bestowed upon the Holy Prophet [peace and blessings of. Allāh be on him]. If anyone should say that this shows disrespect towards the other Prophets, he would be guilty of uttering a calumny against me. It is part of my faith to honour and respect the Prophets, but the Holy Prophet's superiority to all other Prophets is the principal part of my faith and my whole being is saturated with it. It is not