Mahzarnama (The Memorandum) — Page 107
Mahzarnama 107 The aforementioned instances of the usage clearly establish that, according to the Arabs and other pertinent researcher-scholars, whenever a subject who is being praised is given the appellation of Khaatam-ush-Sho'araa , or Khaatam-ul-Foqahaa , or Khaatam-ul- Mohadditheen , or Khaatam-ul-Mufassireen , then it means ‘the best poet’, ‘the greatest faqeeh’ , and ‘the most esteemed mohaddith or mufassir’ , respectively. According to this usage, the interpretation of ( Khaatamun Nabiyyeen ) would be as follows: every excellence of Prophethood and Messengerhip reached its end in the person of Hadhrat Muhammad, the chosen one sa ; there has never been—nor can there ever be, in future—any Prophet who may be superior to him or even his equal. In other words, he is superior in rank to all the prophets ( Afzal-ul-Anbiyaa’ ) and the leader of all the Messengers ( Sayyed-ul-Mursaleen ), and he personifies the combined attributes of all the Prophets. The scholars of Muslim ummah have always shown unanimity in subscribing to this interpretation of the expression Khaatamun Nabiyyeen , and the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at also accepts, from all possible angles, this particular interpretation of Khaatamun Nabiyyeen as well. The Holy Founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at stated in this regard: "My religious belief is that if the Holy Prophet sa were to be isolated, and all the Prophets who had ever appeared upto his time were to try to collectively accomplish the same task and bring about the same reformation as was wrought by the Holy Prophet himself sa , they could never accomplish that. They did not have the drive and the force which Our Prophet sa was endowed with. If someone were to assert that (God forbid) this statement accounts to blaspheming the Prophets, then I would say that such an uninformed person will fabricate an untruth against me. I consider it a part of my faith to show respect and reverence towards the Prophets. But the excellence and superiority of the Holy Prophet sa over all the other prophets is the most integral