With Love to Muhammad (sa) - The Khatam-un-Nabiyyin — Page 238
238 With Love to Muhammad sa the Kh ā tam-un-Nabiyy ī n have appointed a new qiblah , and that I claim to have abrogated the shar ī ‘ah of Isl ā m, and that I do not follow and obey the Holy Prophet, may peace be on him, is entirely false. I consider a claim of such nubuwwat as amounting to be kufr and I have set forth throughout, in all my books, that I do not claim any such nubuwwat , and that it is a calumny to attribute such a claim to me. The basis on which I call myself a Nab ī is that I am honoured with the converse of God Almighty, that He speaks to me frequently, and responds to me, and discloses many hidden things to me, and informs me about future events, in a manner that He adopts only towards one who enjoys special nearness to Him, and that on account of the multiplicity of these matters he has designated me a Nab ī. 229 As a result, it is now clear that wherever Hazrat Mirz ā Ghul ā m Ahmad Q ā di ā n ī as said that there are no more prophets after the Holy Prophet sa , he was referring to law-bearing prophethood or independent prophethood. Wherever he accepted prophethood, it was subordinate, non-law-bearing prophethood, earned through the beneficence of and the Seal of authentication of the prophethood of the Holy Prophet sa. In fact, this same principle applies to the quotations of the mujaddid ī n presented by Farhan Khan. Wherever they said that there are no more prophets after the Holy Prophet sa , they were not discussing the latter day Messiah and where they discussed the latter day Messiah, they called him a prophet and one of them went so far as to say that 229 Letter written by the Promised Messiah as published in Akhb ā r-e-‘ Ā m , May 26, 1908