With Love to Muhammad (sa) - The Khatam-un-Nabiyyin — Page 146
146 With Love to Muhammad sa the Kh ā tam-un-Nabiyy ī n Lawgiver (Muhammad) used the phrase, “the brick (that completes) the house”, for that final stage. 144 This quotation expresses the same understanding that the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jam ā ‘at believes. Ahmad ī Muslims believe that Kh ā tam-un-Nabiyy ī n distinguishes the Holy Prophet sa with the highest status of perfection, or the final stage. Ibn Khald ū n even goes on to say that the Messiah of the latter days will be the Kh ā tam of the saints in the sense that he will be the best of the saints. Farhan Khan should re-read Ibn Khald ū n’s quotation without his pre-disposed belief of the “end of prophethood” to understand what Ibn Khald ū n is really saying. Fifth, Farhan Khan says, “. . . suppose the Ahmad ī [Muslims] consider Ibn Khald ū n an authoritative figure and use his statements as proof of the interpretation of the had ī th. They conveniently fail to quote him when he says that from now until the end of time, there will be no more prophets. ” 145 When an Ahmad ī Muslim reads this, he is shocked at the extraordinary bias with which it has been written. Ahmad ī Muslims do not quote Ibn Khald ū n’s quotation to show that he believed in the continuation of prophethood. They merely quote his position on the had ī th under discussion. They show that they are not alone in such an understanding of that had ī th and these interpretations belonged to previous scholars. Moreover, Ibn Khald ū n is quoted by Hazrat Mirz ā T ā hir Ahmad rh in his book, Irf ā ne Khatme Nubuwwat , and it was written in response to a booklet 144 The Muqaddimah, translated by Franz Rosenthal, Chapter III, Part 51 – The Fatimid. The opinions of the people about him. The truth about the matter. Sufi opinions about the Mahd ī (see:http://asadullahali. files. wordpress. com/2012/10/ibn_khaldun- al_muqaddimah. pdf, pdf page 412, retrieved January 15, 2014) 145 Khan, With Love , Page 15