True Insights into the Concept of Khatm-e-Nubuwwat — Page 32
[ 32 ] The words ‘with a different law’ can have two meanings, one who follows a different law or one who brings a differ- ent law. With the former meaning, the return of Jesus Christ as after the Holy Prophet sa is impossible because, according to the Holy Qur’an, Jesus Christ was a Prophet for the Children of Israel, i. e. , he followed the Mosaic law. A World of Difference Hadrat Sh a h Waliyyull a h Dehlav i , Mujaddid (reformer) of the twelfth century, a scholar who is recognized as a distin- guished authority by the White Paper, writes: The Holy Prophet sa being Kh a tamun-Nabiyy i n means that there will not be anybody who is commissioned by God with a new law for mankind. ( Tafh i m a t-e-Il a- hiyyah , vol. 2, p. 85) Maul a n a Muhammad Q a sim N a notaw i says: According to lay people, the Holy Prophet’s sa being kh a tam means that his era came after the era of the past Prophets and that he is the last Prophet. Now here he is attributing the notion to the lay people, he declares firmly that this is not the view of the scholarly and enlightened people. What is the view of these people, he goes on to say: