Truth Prevails — Page 31
( 31 ) “Hazrat Sahib (meaning Hazrat Masih-i-Mau’ud – author) being an Apostle of God, if he had not used the word Nabi in regard to himself, he would have, in fact falsified the Report in Bokhari which describes the expected Reformer as a Nabi , as a Prophet. He was, therefore, constrained to use the word Nabi in regard to himself. ” (Badr, July 1912, pages 3-4) Differing with a personage whom he had accepted as Khalifatul Masih, Mr. Faruqi writes: “In the Report in Bokhari, the phrase ‘Prophet of Allah’, has not been used for Messiah to come. ” (Truth Triumphs, page 13, Urdu edition) Further, the Promised Messiah, whose Nabuwwat is at issue here written in regard to himself. “Wheresoever a man would come to be endowed with vision, he would not fail to recognise that I am the Promised Messiah the very same, by the highest among the Prophets, who has been spoken of as a Prophet of Allah. ” ( Nazulul Masih. page 40) Again the Promised Messiah writes: “In Hadith of the Holy Prophet it has been foretold that in the Ummat of the Holy Prophet, there shall appear one who will be called Isa, and Ibni Maryam and will be called Nabi. ” ( Haqiqatul Wahyi page 390) Further, thirteen hundred years after the Holy Prophet, on the basis that he would be receiving, in a plentiful measure, tidings embracing knowledge in regard to things unseen, unknown, which make a man deserve being called a Nabi , a Prophet, putting himself up as a specific, particular person, entitled to be called a Prophet, the Promised Messiah wrote: “If the other righteous persons, who have gone before me, if these people had received the same measure and volume of tidings in regard to the future, they would certainly have come to deserve being called Prophets and in that case a tear, a hole, would have appeared in the prophecy of the Holy Prophet, the sagacity of the Lord God kept them from partaking in a full measure, the blessings which go with this position, so that, as stated in Hadith, there should be only one in whom that prophecy shall come to be fulfilled. ” ( Haqiqatul Wahyi , page 391) This statement by the Promised Messiah bears out that in thirteen hundred years to the time of the Promised Messiah, no Prophet came to be raised, and the Ahadith of the Holy Prophet proclaim the Promised Messiah to be a Prophet; prior to him they do not call any saintly person by this name. This sense and meaning is also to be deduced from the Report that between