Khataman Nabiyyeen – Interpretations by Eminent Learned Scholars of Islam — Page 5
The Promised Messiah of the exalted Ahmadiyya Movement says: 'And our Prophet is the Holy Prophet, peace and blessings be on him, and there can be no prophet after him except the one who has acquired his light through the Holy Prophet's light and is merely his manifestation and his reflection. ' (Al-Istifta, p. 22, 1907). Hazrat Mirza Mazhar Jan Janan Naqshbandi (d. 1195 AH/ 1781AD), an acknowledged authority on Mysticism, well known literary person and master of poetry and prose, has said: *No perfection, except the perfection of prophethood bearing Law, has ended. With respect to the other beneficences of God Almighty,. He is neither miserly nor niggardly. ' (Maqamati Mazhari, p. 88). Hazrat Mohyiud Din Ibn Arabi has said: 'The Law-bearing prophethood and Messengership has now ceased after the Holy Prophet, peace and blessings be on him. Therefore, there shall be no Law-bearing prophet after him. ' (Fususul Hakam, pp. 140-141). Hazrat Sayyad Abdul Karim Jilani has written: 'The coming of the Law-bearing prophets, after the Holy Prophet. peace and blessings on him, has ceased as he has been exalted to be the "Khataman-Nabiyyeen” because he brought with him such a perfect Law as no prophet had brought before him. " (Al-Insanul. Kamil, Vol. I, p. 68, Egypt edition). The Chief of the Mystics and the Sheikh of his time. Hazrat. Al-Sheikh Bali Afandi (d. 960 AH), has said: "Khatamar Rusul" is he after whom no prophet with a new law shall be born. (Sharah Fususul Hakam). The Promised Messiah wrote:. All the Prophets who came with their books in the past need not now be followed independently. Because the prophethood of. Muhammad circumscribes all their laws. Therefore all the paths except his path have been closed. All the truths which cause one to attain everlasting life are contained in it. No separate law shall now come nor has there been a truth which is not contained in it. All the prophethoods of the past have now culminated in his law. That is why all the previous prophethoods have now ceased and it was bound to be so. (Al-Wassiyyat, pp. 17–18) 5