Reply to a Mockery — Page 15
Response to the booklet entitled Ilh a m i Girgit 15 but also clearly indicate that a Prophet will most certainly come, but also mention the covenant whereby the Prophets pledged their support to all other Prophets, and this pledge was specifi- cally taken from the Holy Prophet s as. For details, see S u rah Āl-e- ‘Imr a n 3:82 and S u rah al-A h z a b 33:8. Similarly, in many of the a ha d i th , the Holy Prophet s as men- tions the advent of a subordinate Prophet and he refers to the future Promised Messiah and Mahdi as a Prophet. As an example the following hadith is presented. ْنَه ُ نَبِي ٌّ وَل َ رَسُولٌ، أَل َ إِنَّه ُ خَلِيْفَتِي فِي ْ أُمَّتِيْ. ی ْنِي وَبَ ی َم َ لَیْس َ بَ ي ْ اَل َ اِن َّ عِیْسَی ابْن َ مَر Beware that there is neither a Prophet nor a Messenger between Isa son of Mary and me. Beware that he will be my successor from within my Ummah. ( Al-Mu‘jamul- Ausa t u Li t - T ibr a ni, B a bul-‘Aini Manismuhu ‘Īs a , H ad i th 4898, vol. 3, p. 383, D a rul-Fikr, Amman, Jordan, first ed. , 1999) In the face of such clear-cut pronouncements by God and His Messenger, does the so-called consensus have any value? Such a belief could mean only that there is a consensus that the Holy Prophet’s s as prophecy would not be fulfilled and that God’s Word is not true (God forbid, God forbid). It is wrong to say that all Muslims, without exception, believe that a Prophet can never be born into the Ummah. As far as the question of a law-bearing Prophet is concerned, all Muslims, the Quran, and the Hadith, agree that there can never be a Prophet outside the Shariah and dominion of the Seal of Prophets,