With Love to Muhammad (sa) - The Khatam-un-Nabiyyin — Page 335
Appendix I 335 The Divine revelation: ✪ا ŀ ǔ ƶŐǎƶƓ 㷨 اور✪ا㷨 呅 嬸 㦌 ا 㥃م㷩. 338 means that God felt that, because of its widespread corruption, mankind was in need of a grand reformer, so the Seal of God blessed a follower of the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of All ā h be upon him) with the rank of being a follower on the one hand, and a prophet on the other. All ā h the Exalted, bestowed upon the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of All ā h be upon him) the Seal for the purpose of conveying spiritual excellence, which had not been bestowed on any other prophet and that is why he was named the Seal of prophets. This means that obedience to the Holy Prophet sa bestows the excellences of prophethood and his spiritual attention fashions prophets. No other prophet has been granted such spiritual power. This is the meaning of the had ī th : َ اِ:ْرَاiِLْل a ِeَب a ِ DَاHَْبiَِاء a َِّتGُا a ُ َاءdَcُ@ ‘The divines from among my people will be like the prophets of Israel. ’ There were many prophets from among the children of Israel, but their prophethood was not because of their obedience to Moses as ; rather it was a direct bounty from God. That is why they were not designated prophets in one aspect and the followers of a prophet in another, but were called independent prophets and the dignity of prophethood was bestowed directly upon them. Leaving them aside, if we look at the rest of the children of Israel, we observe that they had very little guidance 338 ‘What a grand task has been accomplished by the ‘feeling’ of God and His Seal. ’ Note: This Urdu revelation contains the actual English word ‘feeling’.