Mahzarnama (The Memorandum) — Page 103
Mahzarnama 103 Ummah, are able to reach him all the time. The Chief of Prophets Prophethood is a spiritual excellence. A Prophet is a personage of high rank. Similarly, among personages of any excellence and high rank, the Khaatam is the only personage who achieves the final rank on the scale of that particular excellence. Below we produce forty one such examples, in the societal context of the Indo-Pakistan sub-continent and the Arabic-speaking countries, in support of the foregoing statement: 1. Abu Tamaam (188-231 Hijra ; 804-845 A. D. ) a poet, was referred to as Khaatam-ush Sho'araa. [ Dafiyaat-ul-A'ayaan , vol. 1] 2. Abu Al-Tayyib (303-354 Hijra ; 915-965 A. D. ) was called Khaatam-ush-Sho'araa. [ Muqaddimah Deewan Al-Mutanabbi , Misri, p. 10] 3. Abul al-Alaa al-Ma'arri (363-449 Hijra ; 973-1057 A. D. ) was also declared to be Khaatum-ush-Sho'araa. [Ref. (2) above, footnote, p. 10] 4. Sheikh Ali Hazeen (1113-1180 Hijra ; 1701-1767 A. D. is considered to be the Khaatam-ush-Sho'araa of Hindustaan ( sic. India). [ Hayat-e-Sa'adi , p. 117] 5. Habib Shirazi is regarded as Khaatam-ush-Sho'araa in Iran. [ Hayaat-e-Sa'adi , p. 87] 6. Hadhrat Ali is Khaatam-ul-Auliyaa’. [ Tafseer Saafi , Surah Al- Ahzaab ] 7. Imam Shaafi'ee (150-204 Hijra ; 767-820 A. D. ) was Khaatam- ul-Auliyaa’. [ Al-Tohfa-tus-Sunniyya , p. 45]