With Love to Muhammad (sa) - The Khatam-un-Nabiyyin — Page 255
Continuation of Prophethood according to the Holy Qur’ ā n 255 but in reality it is quite the opposite. No one knows the Holy Qur’ ā n better than All ā h Who revealed it. He, Himself, has made it clear that ma‘a means min (among) by using min in the same verse! As a result, Ahmad ī Muslims do not conform the word ma‘a to mean min. It is All ā h Who has done so! Nevertheless, let us assume for a minute that Farhan Khan is right. What would be the meaning then? The answer is that the verse would then mean that those people who obey All ā h and His Messenger sa cannot become prophets and can only be with the prophets; they cannot be the truthful but be with the truthful; they cannot be the witnesses but only be with the witnesses; and they cannot be righteous but only be with the righteous. In other words, in the ummah of the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa , no one can become a righteous person, a witness, a truthful person, or a prophet. The application of these meanings to the Holy Qur’ ā n is unacceptable and ridiculous and Farhan Khan does not address this argument in his entire chapter! If Farhan Khan insists that this is about the union of the believers with the prophets, the truthful, the martyrs, and the righteous in the next life, the meaning would still be unacceptable! It would mean that within this life, there will be no righteous man in the nation of the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa and they can only be with the righteous in the next life, God forbid! The fact of the matter is that being righteous is the lowest of the four spiritual stages and if a person cannot be righteous in this life, how can he/she even enter into heaven? If one cannot achieve this lowest spiritual status in this life, then what is the benefit of being obedient to All ā h and His Messenger sa ? What was the reason to reveal the verse? Such a meaning is unacceptable and should be discarded with those books which