With Love to Muhammad (sa) - The Khatam-un-Nabiyyin — Page 236
236 With Love to Muhammad sa the Kh ā tam-un-Nabiyy ī n Some Mu‘tazillah, and those who agree with them, have denied the veracity of those events by claiming that they are negated by the fact that Muhammad is the Last Prophet, something which the entire ummah of Muslims agree upon and to which there is ample evidence in the Qur’ ā n and Sunnah, as in All ā h’s saying that he is the Kh ā tam Al-Nabiyy ī n, and the Had ī th in which the Messenger of All ā h sa said, “There will be no Prophet after me”. But this is a corrupt deduction. The descent of Jesus does not mean that he will bring with him a new Message and Law that will annul our shar ī ‘ah , which all Muslims agree is the final Law valid until the Day of Judgment. Nothing to this effect is found in the Ahadeeth or anywhere else. Indeed, the Ahadeeth tell us that Jesus will come on earth to rule justly by the shar ī ‘ah of Isl ā m, reviving its aspects which have been neglected by the people. 227 In the above quotation, Hazrat Ibn Taymiyya interprets the words, “There will be no prophet after me,” exactly how the Ahmad ī Muslims do. He says that this statement only means that the latter day Messiah will be a subordinate prophet without a new message or a new law that abrogates the law of the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa. Regarding the correct personality – whether he is ‘ Ī s ā as of the ‘ Ī sr ā elites or another person bearing spiritual resemblance with ‘ Ī s ā as – Hazrat Im ā m Ibn Taymiyya could not have decided that because he did not see the way the prophecy was fulfilled. In fact, this is something that none of the mujaddid ī n could have decided because this 227 He quotes from Sarh Al-Nawaw ī ‘al ā Sah ī h Muslim , Volume 18, Pages 75-76