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him). This is called reflex-prophethood and the person gifted with it is a prophet on the one hand and simultaneously a follower on the other. Our opponents, it must be noted, are, however, of the view that the door to all the three categories of prophethood has been finally closed after the Holy Prophet (Allah bless him) and that no prophet of any category shall appear till the Doomsday. ln other words even an eminently perfect follower of the Holy Prophet (Allah bless him) cannot be heir to the excellences of pro- phethood as a reflector and yet, they in direct con- tradiction of their above view, believe in the second advent of Hazrat Isa [ who came as a steward of the Mosaic dispensation some 600 years before the Holy Prophet (Allah bless him) for the reformation of the Ummate Muhammadiyya retaining his former office of Prophethood. In contra-distinction to it, the Ahmadiyya Com- munity holds that whereas the p. oor to the first two categories of prophethood has been finally closed after the Holy Prophet (Allah bless him} i. ~. there shall neither come a law-giving prophet as the law of the Holy Prophet (Allah bless him) is perfect; nor shall appear a non-law-giving prophet claiming to having received the favour independently of the prophethood of the Holy prophet (Allah ble11s hlm); • as, such belief is derogatory to the complete ~-nd perfect prophet- hood of our Holy Prophet (Allah bless him}; but that the appearance of a prophet of the third category who has been termed as the disciple-cum-reflex-prophet, one who has received the Cavour in the service and through the grace of the Holy Prophet (Allah bless him} and has been enlightened through his glow, is within the range of possibility• for, his appearance does ii1 no way detract from the glory of the Holy Prophet (Allah bless him}. On the contrary, it demons- trates the perfection of his prophetic excellence, in that his. bright sun could, through the effulgence of 12