The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 148
THE PROMISED MESSIAH AND MAHDI single word or vowel point of the Holy Quran". (Akhbare Aam, May 26, 1908) 2. "And our Prophet is the Holy Prophet, peace and blessings be on him, and there can be no prophet after him except the one who has acquired his light through the Holy Prophet's light and is merely his manifestation and his reflection. " (Al-Istifta, p. 22, 1907) 3. "The Holy Prophet, peace and blessings be on him, had been awarded a very special distinction inasmuch as all the perfection pertaining to prophethood had culminated in him; and, the secondly, that there is no law-bearing messenger after him, nor is there a prophet who would be out of the pale of his own followers. On the other hand, whosoever is blessed with verbal communion with. God acquires it through his magnanimity only and he is also one of his followers and is not an independent prophet". (Tatimma Chashma. Ma'arifat, p. 9) 4. "God is One and Muhammad, on whom be the peace and blessings of Allah, is His Prophet and he is the Khatamul Anbya and above all other prophets. After him there is no other prophet except one who is clothed in the cloak of Muhammad by way of reflection, for a servant has no identity apart from his master, nor is a branch distinct from its trunk. He who is bestowed the title of prophet on account of his complete absorption in his master does not contravene the Khatam-i-Nabuwat. When you observe your reflection in a mirror there are not two of you but only one, though there appear two; only one is the original and the other is his reflection. This is what God desired in the case of the Promised Messiah. " (Kashti Nuh, p. 15) 5. "Keep well in mind that the door of law-bearing prophethood is firmly closed after the Holy Prophet and that there is no book after the Holy Quran which can bring new commandments or can abrogate any commandment of the Holy Quran or can suspend obedience to it. The Holy Quran is binding till the Day of Judgment. (Al-Wasiyyat, P. 12). OBJECTION NO. 3: 148