The Essence of Islam – Volume I — Page 304
304. Essence of Islam-1 whom all human excellences arrived at their perfection, and all good faculties were devoted to their proper task and no branch of human nature was left barren. . Prophethood ended with him not only because he was the last Prophet in point of time, but also because all the excellences of Prophethood reached their climax in him. As he was a perfect manifestation of Divine attributes, his law had the qualities of both majesty and beauty. That is why he was named both Muḥammad and Aḥmad [peace and blessings of Allāh be on him]. And there was no miserliness in his Prophethood; Indeed, it was destined for the benefit of the whole world since the beginning of time. [Lecture Sialkot, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, Vol. 20, pp. 206-207]. Steadfastness of the Holy Prophetsa. That Prophet is superior to all other Prophets who is the great Instructor of the world, that is to say, he at whose hands the great corruption of the world was reformed and who re-established on the earth the Unity of God which had been lost and had disappeared. He overcame all false religions by proof and argument and removed the doubts of every misguided one. He provided the true means of salvation by teaching the right principles for which it was not necessary to crucify an innocent person, or to remove. God from His true and eternal station and to put Him in the womb of a woman. Thus, his beneficence and his grace exceed those of everyone else and his rank is higher than all. History points out, and the heavenly. Book is a witness, and those who have eyes are able to observe, that the Prophet who is thus established as superior to all other Prophets is Muḥammad, the chosen one [peace and blessings of Allāh be on him].