Flowers for the Women Wearing Veils - Volume I — Page 279
! ! 279 َﻻ َﻧ ِﺒ َّﻰ َﺑ ْﻌ ِﺪ ْى [ There is no P rophet after me] As we moved further and further away from the time of the Holy Prophet sa , it was concluded from these [phrases] that no other prophet would come after him. No man was able to avert this danger , except for Haz rat ‘Ali ra and one other. However, Haz rat A’isha h ra very boldly declared : َﺗ ُﻘ ْﻮ ﻟ t ْﻮ ا َﻻ َﻧ uzِ w ﱠ 3َ ْﻌ َﺪ ٗە ُﻗ ْﻮ ﻟ t ْﻮ ا ِا ﻧ ﱠ ٗﻪ َﺧ ﺎ َﺗ ُﻢ ا َْﻻ ْﻧ ~ِ ' ﺎ ` ِء َو َﻻ [Certainly, do say, he (the Holy Prophet sa ) is the Seal of all Prophets, but do not say, there is no Prophet after him. ] “ Say , that the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa is ! ا ﻟ َّﻨ ِﺒ َّٖني َﺧ ﺎ َﺗ َﻢ ! K hātamun - Nabiyyīn , [Seal of the Prophets] but do not say that no P rophet will appear after him. ” Now observe who se opinion has been given validation by this era’s A postle [the Promised Messiah as ]. T he women who were considered intellectually deficient , or those men who were c onsidered intellectually perfect. At that time, if she had thought , ‘ Why should I say anything, when I am considered amo ng the intellectually inferior ? ’ we would have encountered many difficulties on this issue and would have faced defeat at many fronts. When we present the meaning of K hātamun - Nabiyyīn to be that a prophet can come after the Holy Prophet sa but he must be from the followers of the Holy Prophet sa and that he must be subordinate to the Holy Prophet as , we were bound to have been asked that why was this meaning not realized by the people that had gone before ? N ow , when someone poses this question, we can respond that the Holy Prophet Muhammad ’s sa wife interpreted it as such. In fact, ‘intellectually deficient’ is a relative term. It implies that a woman is less intelligent than a man. I t means that the most perfect woman will be less intelligent than the most perfect man and a