Truth about Khatm-e-Nabuwat — Page 147
There is yet another aspect of the question. Those who claini that the eternal Divine Law of · raising. a prophet· io reform mankind in every dark period has now. become inoperative, carry the onus of su~tantiating. . their contention with evidence. Our claim is self-sustained, as, it is in line with. an eternally operative Divine Law. Those who claim a new departure from this Divine Law, must cite relative. evidence in support of their contention. If they cannot and by the grace of God they surely cannot, then the logically correct position, confirms our stand. that w·e cannot be called upon to cite any evidence ; and when our opponents who bear ~he onus cannot • produce supporting evidence to their claim, the controversy must be treated as closed. In the field of rational approach, the argument that extraordinary deterioration in religious. persu- asion ·and. deeds in general is evident during the present era, the dominance of materialistic views and prevalence of irreligeousness and fraudulence, against which all· prophets, have, according to the Holy Prophet (Allah bless him) been fore-warning, resulting in general in the. inner degeneratipn of races and ·nations, call for a prophet who should radiate the light of the spiritual sun of the Holy Prophet (Allah· bless him) to illuminate the world, as an heir and votary of the Holy Prophet (Allah bless him). No doubt the preceding centuries huve had their share of. darkness but the cimmerian darkness of the present age and the degeneration in faith and practice that has set in during these days, are indescribably great and without parallel in history. If therefore reformers of the Mujjaddad level were needed to attend to the evils of the past ages, present times call for a master-reformer gifted with prophetic properties through the favour of the Holy Prophet's (Allah bless him) grace. That is why the Holy Prophet (Allah bless him), in 147