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58 Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad such faculties as can bear the teachings of the Holy Quran. However, Allah the Exalted has granted us those faculties and we can benefit from them. The Holy Prophet sa and His Station as the Seal of the Prophets Allah the Exalted has blessed us with a Prophet who is the Seal of the Believers, the Seal of the Pious, and the Seal of the Prophets. Similarly, God Almighty re- vealed upon him a book, which is the Seal of Books—a book which comprehen- sively encapsulates all others. When it is said that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, is the ‘Seal of the Prophets’ and that prophet- hood has reached its end in him, this does not imply that prophethood has ended as one brings about the end of someone by strangling them to death. This sort of an ‘end’ is not worthy of honour. In fact, when it is said that prophethood has come to an end in the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, this means that the excellences of prophethood have reached their climax in his person. In other words, all the various excellences that were granted to the Prophets, from Adam as to Jesus as son of Mary—certain qualities to some and dif- ferent qualities to others—were all combined in the Holy Prophet sa and in this way the Holy Prophet sa naturally became the Seal of the Prophets. In the same manner, all the teachings, guidance and insights given in various books, came to their final point of completion when they culminated in the Holy Quran, and so the Holy Quran became the ‘Seal of the Books’. We Believe With Full Insight that the Messenger of Allah sa Is the Seal of the Prophets It should also be understood that the allegation which is levelled against my community and I, that we do not believe in the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, as being the Seal of the Prophets, is a grave cal- umny against us. Our critics do not believe in the Holy Prophet sa as being the Seal of the Prophets even one part out of a hundred thousand, as compared to the strength, certainty, divine understanding and insight with which we believe it, nor do they have it within themselves to do so. They do not grasp the underlying essence and secret in the Seal of Prophethood and the Seal of the Prophets, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. They have merely heard this term from their forefathers, but they are ignorant of its true essence and do not know what the