Mahzarnama (The Memorandum) — Page 90
90 Mahzarnama a community of the blind, but the added disadvantage was that it would have detracted from the spiritual grace and favour of the Holy Prophet sa. Moreover, if no follower of the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa could ever rise to the rank of prophethood while being his follower, then what of the prayer which the Muslims observe five times every day? Also, had it been possible for anyone to attain to this rank directly, without submission to the Holy Prophet sa , then Khatm-e-Nubuwwat would have become a meaningless term. So, in order to safeguard against this twofold difficulty, Allah bestowed this rank of perfect and pure and holy Communion with Him on some persons who in their love had completely merged themselves into the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa where no dividing curtain remained between the two. The sense and meaning of being ‘followers' imbued their being to the fullest, even to an extent where their own being remained not their own. Rather, so to say, in the intensity and clearness of their wrapt absorption, the being of the Master, the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa , was fully reflected in them, while on the other hand, perfect communion with God bestowed on the Prophets was extended to them as well. " [Al-Wasiyyat, Roohaani Khazaa’in vol. 20, p. 311-312]. Had I not been of the ummah of the Holy Prophet sa and had I not so obediently followed him, I would never have been blessed with Divine dialogue and converse, even if my own deeds were equivalent to all the mountains of the earth, because now all prophethoods have stopped, with the sole exception of the Prophethood of the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa. [Tajalliyaat-e-Ilaahiyyah, Roohaani Khazaa’in vol. 20, p. 411]