Truth about Khatm-e-Nabuwat — Page 152
The Belief of non-Ahmadi The belief of the Ahmadi MusHms of today. Community. The Holy Prophet ( Allah bless him) is '~JI ~ l. :. ' i. e. , he is the terminator of all prophets, that the door to prophethood of every category is finally closed after him and nobody can attain to prophe thood henceforward. The prophets who had to appear have already appeared before him and there is no prophet after him, neither from among his followers, nor from outside of their membership; for, all the streams of Pr ophethood have ceased to flow after his advent. Therefore • none of his servants and votaries shall henceforward attain to prophethood. The Holy Prophet ( Allah bless him) is. the '~ I ~l;. ' i. e. , the Seal of Prophets. In him the excellences of Prophethood have reached their perfection and there- fore the door to receiving prophethood independently is closed since his appoint- ment to this office, for henceforwad every kind of grace • is attainable only through his service. His advent has thus not closed the stream of Divine grace but its course has been channelized through his person which is now, so to say, the new Headwork. A prophet, henceforth, shall appear only through allegi- ance to him by receiving light from his light and as his shadow and reflecion and not otherwise. The above is a comparative statement represent- ing on the one hand the view of the non-Ahmadis who believe the door to every kind of prophethood to have been bolted. They, in other words, mean that before the advent of the Holy Prophet (Allah bless him) the chances of becoming prophets, Siddiq, Shaheed and Salih were open to mankind but since his (Allah bless him) advent, while the chances of becoming Siddiq. Shaheed and Salih conti1iue to remain open, the c-hances of becoming prophets huve been ter- minated. 152