True Insights into the Concept of Khatm-e-Nubuwwat — Page 109
A Review of the Pakistani Government’s “White Paper”: Qadiyaniyyat—A Grave Threat to Islam [ 109 ] be so. As Allah says in the Holy Qur’an, chapter two, verse 154: surely, Allah is with the steadfast. ( S u rah al-Baqarah, 2:154) Here the species has changed, hence the particle ma‘a can- not be used in the sense of min —from among. The Holy Qur’an clarifies this issue further. If you refer to the verse under discussion Chapter 4, verse 70: Among those on whom Allah has bestowed His blessings it further reads ‘among the Prophets’. That is to say: Those receiving His blessings would be ‘among the Proph- ets, the martyrs and the righteous’ and not just in their company. The particle ma‘a has not been repeated. min has been used to elucidate the meaning and to eliminate any possibility of misinterpretation. Allah says: