Truth About the Split

by Hazrat Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmud Ahmad

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Truth About the Split — Page 131

131 Mubashshirat " (prophecy). Thus, only because the Jariullah (the Promised Messiah as —Tr. ) has not brought any new Shariah (Law) save the Shariah of Islam nor any new book superseding the Holy Quran, he is called a Juzwi Nabi. '' Likewise, the following lines of Maulawi Muhammad Ahsan are quoted from his book Sitta-i- Daruriya where, in order to confute the deniers of the prophethood of Ahmad the Promised Messiah as , he proves from the verse Khatamun Nabiyyin the continuance of prophethood in the Khairul Umam the best of people meaning the Muslims), and refutes the doctrine advocated by Maulawi Muhammad Ali. He writes: "Regarding the meaning of the word Nabi and Rasul , there is a very great divergence of opinion prevailing among the doctors of religion, but if from among the conflicting mass of opinion we are to accept the meaning furnished by the Tafsir-e-Kabir what is there to prevent us from such a course? The meaning given there is as follows: " Rasul is a Nabi who in addition to miracles, has had a book revealed to him,