True Insights into the Concept of Khatm-e-Nubuwwat — Page 61
A Review of the Pakistani Government’s “White Paper”: Qadiyaniyyat—A Grave Threat to Islam [ 61 ] and a saint as He wills. ( Shara h li Shar h il-‘Aq a’ id, known as Nibr a s, p. 445) Let us review the beliefs of the Ahle- H ad i th till the advent of the Promised Messiah as. Hadrat Naww a b N u rul- H asan Kh a n, son of Naww a b S idd i q H asan Kh a n, explaining his view of the h ad i th ‘ L a Nabiyya ba‘d i’ says: The so called h ad i th ‘ l a wahya ba‘da maut i ’ – [divine revelation w ill be stopped after my death] is unfounded. We have a h ad i th ‘ L a Nabiyya ba‘d i ’ which according to the learned means that after the Holy Prophet sa there would be no Prophet who would abrogate his law. ( Iqtir a bus-S a‘ ah , p. 162) It is worth noting that, in explaining the meaning of L a Nabiyya ba‘d i, the phrase “According to the learned. . . ” is used. Similar words, as quoted earlier, have been used by Sh a h Waliyyull a h and Mull a ‘Al i Q a r i. It would therefore appear that an inclination to distort the meaning of this h ad i th had set in by that time. Two distinct groups had emerged: One comprising these God-fearing holy men and the other consisting of the common people led by their ulema who have been called by a prominent scholar as ignorant and deprived of common sense. That is why these wise people used references to other learned and scholarly people to drive home the real meaning of L a Nabiyya ba‘d i as explained in the passages above.