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ult means that the Law of Muhammad is most perfect as compared to preceding laws which were perfect in themselves. "1 It is only fair that this tradition should be confined in its implications to the perfection of Law. If, however, it is stretched to a comparison on a personal level, than it is definitely derogatory to the Holy Prophet ( may Allah bless him) reducing him ·in rank to a mere brick in the entire edifice of Prophethood. Says the Prophet: -~\,;(Jf~J~_,. >1'. , l~. ]~ "I was Prophet when Adam was yet in (the transitional stages) between water and mud. " The tradition under reference is in fact a subtle expression of ihe Divine scheme that the preceding prophets came to pave for the perfect prophethood of the Holy Prophet as he was the • Central figure in the scheme of apostleship and the Divine law had to receive its perfect shape through him. To say of him whb holds such a position of eminence and singular sublimity and who has been honoured as chief among men and has been graced with tbe Divine favour : "Hadst thou not been, there would not have been created' the heavens" that he is but one brick in the vast edifice of Prophethood, is a very rotten apd far from acceptable interpretation of the tradition under discussion. The truth of the matter is that the tradition confines itself only to the perfection of Law and --- l. FallMJl-Bari Vo/. 6. p. 361. 101