Malfuzat – Volume X — Page 357
1 May 1908 357 in England for three and a half years. Forget about the three, stay here with me for just the half year and then see for yourself how much beneficial increase there is in your knowledge. The Meaning of Khatamun-Nabiyyin A question was asked, ‘What is meant by Khatamun-Nabiyyin?’ The Promised Messiah as said: It means that no law-bearing Prophet would come after the Holy Prophet s as , and that no Prophet can come who does not have the seal of the Holy Prophet s as with him. Hazrat Ibn Arabi, the Chief of the Sufis, says that cessation of prophethood and death of Islam are one and the same thing. Look, in the times of Moses as , even women received revelation [from Allah]. Thus, the mother of Moses as herself spoke with God. What type of a religion is it concerning which it is said that its blessings and beneficence lie in the past and not in the future? If God still hears the way He used to hear in the earlier times, and He sees in the way He used to see beforehand, then what is the reason that His ability to speak has now disappeared while it was present in the earlier times together with His ability to hear and see? If this is so, is there not the danger that the ability of God Almighty to hear and see might also be suspended at some point in time? Woe to such obscene notions! Just as God used to commu- nicate and talk with all the Prophets before, He continues to do so even now. I myself am available as proof of this. Know it for certain that God speaks just as He hears and sees. Unless the converse and discourse of God Almighty is acknowledged to exist in Islam forever, Islam becomes lifeless and it can never