Mahzarnama (The Memorandum) — Page 28
28 Mahzarnama that the Holy Prophet sa is the Seal of the Prophets ( Khaatamun Nabiyyeen ). May we respectfully draw your attention to this bitter reality that, with the sole exception of those who deny the institution of Ahadith , the religious scholars of all the sects opposed to us do not believe the Holy Prophet sa to be the Seal of the Prophets ( Khaatamun Nabiyyeen ) in the two aforementioned senses. Despite their declaration that the Holy Prophet sa applied closure to the coming of the prophets, they continue to hold the contradictory belief that (God forbid) the Holy Prophet sa could not put an end to Jesus Christ’s tenure as prophet, neither in the physical sense nor in the spiritual sense. There was only one prophet who (according to them) was still physically alive during the Holy Prophet's life, but alas! he did not die during the latter's lifetime: the Holy Prophet sa according to them died but Jesus remained alive! It has been almost fourteen hundred years since the demise of the Holy Prophet sa , but that Israelite Prophet continues to be alive to this day. Now be fair, according to those who believe Jesus to be still physically alive, which of the two qualifies to be the Khaatam ? What is more, spiritually too, these same religious scholars tacitly acknowledge Jesus of Nazareth to be the Khaatam. This is so because they believe that, in terms of spiritual continuity, the Holy Prophet sa could not terminate the spiritual dominion of Jesus of Nazareth. The reign of other earlier prophets had already come to an end and all other paths of salvation closed; only Jesus of Nazareth, according to them, was ‘physically alive,' but alas! the flow of his spiritual beneficence could not come to an end! Not only that, his power to provide spiritual bliss is supposed to be much greater now than it was before. At a time when the corpus of the followers of the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa fall victim to dangerous spiritual maladies and are beset by a myriad of spiritual ills, notwithstanding his grand spiritual power of regeneration, then such spiritually