Truth about Khatm-e-Nabuwat — Page 62
Master the Holy Prophet ( Peace of Allah be on him and His choicest blessings ) has been pleased to term the coming Messiah a prophet, in his own blessed words. - Lest, in the light of the erroneous copception of the verse \J-. "11 ~l. ;. • the term 'prophet' used in reference to the coming Messiah be • misunder- stood to have been , eIDployed in a loose and non-technical sense, simply to invest it with a wider significance, the Holy Prophet avoided the usual tenure and tone of conversation and used the following words which contain a world of wisdom:. . e ,. '. i:. . . ,,, ,,. . . . . ,,. ~. . . . :. . . , -~~,~~ "There ii; b~tween me and him no prophet. " This form of speech, which is in a class by itself, decidedly intended to point out that "the coming Messiah was not to be treated as a titular Prophet in a non-technical sense but,. in so far as, the fact of prophethood was concerned ( and not its category or order of precedence ) he is as much a prophet of God as I am". How marvellous is the speech of our Holy Prophet, every word of it is a verita,ble treasure of wisdom and truth. It deserves to be seriously considered ~hat if he h1ad simply said that the coming Messiah would be a prophet, the mis-conception that has r is. en in this respect, would have ·confounded many a doubting mind le11ding hi91 to regard the use of the term in a non-technical sense and not in the real sense of the term prophethood. • But by making this profound observation '. 'there is no propbet between , him and me" the Holy Prophet ( peace of Allah be -on hini and His choicest blessings ever. and evermore) confirmed the fact that "the coming