Malfuzat - Volume VIII — Page 383
30 May 1906 383 mentioned in the noble a ha d i th that the coming Messiah would be a Prophet as well as an Ummat i. 1 An Ummat i is the one who attains all excellence by receiving grace from the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. But how would a person who has already achieved the status of a Prophet become an Ummat i ? He is already a Prophet. The questioner asked that if there can be such a Prophet in Islam, then who has been a Prophet before him? The Promised Messiah as said: This question was not for me, but for the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. He gave the title Prophet to only one man. No man before him was named Prophet. This is the reason that I am not the one responsible for giving the answer to this question. 2 1. S a hīh al-Bukh ārī, Kit ā b A hā d ī th al-Anbiy ā’, B ā b Naz ūl ‘Ī s ā ibn Maryam, Hadith 3449; S a hīh al-Muslim, Kit ā b al-Fitan wa Ashr āt as-S ā ’ah, B ā bu Dhikri ad-Dajj ā l wa S ifatihi wa M ā Ma’ahu, Hadith 7373 [Publisher] 2. Badr, vol. 2, no. 23, p. 3, 4, dated 7 June 1906