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of prophetbood tQ one who appears as his disciple and servant and gathers the fruits of Divine favour in his servitude and as his tributory and reflection, can be said to repudiate the sense of the tradition -~~I. ,. . . 1 ui' Believe it or not, the unvarnished truth is this: our Master the Holy Prophet is, to all intents and purposes, the last, for every category ofprophethood (Law-bearing prophethood, independent prophethood) continuation of which could militate against his status of finality has terminated. And instead the door of prophethood that remains open admits of only ~mbordinate Prophethood which hardly detracts from his office of • finality. Would that the other Muslims but grasp this point. Besides the word ( IS~ ) 'last' as an adjective, conveys in Arabic language, the sense of perfection of a person, in an accomplishment, to the last degree. Examples of this are to be found in abupdance in both Arabic and Persian. Since this discussion has already grown in volume, we do not want to go into it in any length. It will suffi<!e here to quote an example from the Urdu poems of Dr. Sir Mohammad Iqbal, in the hope that our readers, bulk of )Vhom are expected to be fond of Dr. Iqbal's poetry and philosophy, snail feel enlightend. Says the learned Doctor : not t::-· ~J, v;f,~;,,-. 1t;,i, L:'<J. : ' V• • •• • < 1. ,,J'~, ~J _,,. . ~ ~ ~ ( vl. r/L;;U-;1 "Gone is Dagh his dead body adores yesterday, the Last Poet' of Jehanabad lies silent. " Evidently the expression 1 1S. ,. . T' •last poet' ia used here •in the literal sense : for poets J. Bafl/le Dara. 100