Truth about Khatm-e-Nabuwat — Page 120
'l'his significant utterance meant that Allah had so designed thedispensationofproplwthood and apostle- ship and evolved it in such a manner as to ultimately lead to th~ perfection-point of the Holy Prophet mature. complete and full prophethood. According to a tradition Allah spoke to the Prophet thus :. li!,lj. . :,~I•~ ;, ; W~)l,J "Had I not created thee I would have created neither heaven nor earth. " It manifestly means that the Holy Prophet (Allah bless him) was the ultimate objeeti\·e and final aim of prophetic dispensation as well as of the spirit- ual realm. It. is therefore that the Holy Prophet, time and agam repeated : ~J\!I r j'I l;I J _;. ; \!J l". )I. . u_, ~ lil fa ~. , ~. . ,. . ~'. , 11 1 am the Chief of the generation of man but I pride not thereon and I am eminent among all predeeessors and successors but I pride not thereon. " That is why he was favoured with the eternal and global law which transcends all other eodes and shall not be replaced with another till the Day of. Judgment. When his status is so exalted and his law so transcend- ent it was only befitting that to stress and incul- cate the dignity of this God-granted office, such choice and impressive language should be employed as would demonstrate to the world that all the former lines of Prophethood have ended up in him and all the future lines will henee-forth emanate from his person. All the pronouncements of the Holy Prophet (Allah bless him) made in respect 120