With Love to Muhammad (sa) - The Khatam-un-Nabiyyin — Page 7
7 Meanings of Kh ā tam in Dictionaries In order to understand the meaning of Kh ā tam-un- Nabiyy ī n (lit. Seal of the Prophets ), it is essential to understand the key operative words and the connotative meanings associated with them in the Arabic language. Under the chapter entitled Classical Lexicons and the Word خاتم ( Kh ā tam ), Farhan Khan criticizes the Ahmadiyya understanding of the word خاتم ( kh ā tam , lit. seal ) and presents isolated quotations from various lexicons or dictionaries in support of his opinion that “. . . all of the lexicons understand خاتم to mean last or finish, and some even reference S ū rah Al-Ahzab verse 41 saying Muhammad السالم و الصالة عليہ is the last of the prophets” 1. We call into question the intellectual integrity of the quotations presented by Farhan Khan based on the fact that he did not go into a sufficient discussion of the word kh ā tam in the context of any of his quotations. Any honest individual can go through those entries and come to the conclusion that they were presented with much bias, predisposed to the belief that Hazrat 1 Farhan Khan, With Love to the Ahmad ī s of the world (U. S. A, 2010), Page 58