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( 63 ) except that it please Allah. Many of the Prophets and their companions, have marched by virtue of following in their footsteps, and by virtue of their sacred inheritance. ” (In other words, they attained the excellences of Wilayat in the first instance, and then, on the basis of these qualities, they worked up to the point of Nabuwwat ) ( Maktubat-i - Mojaddid Alif Thani , Vol. 1, Maktub 301, page 435) Therefore, when the gradual attainment of Nabuwwat , by first getting to be a Wali , and then rising to be a Nabi , is not objectionable, the gradual unfolding of the Nabuwwat , on the Promised Messiah cannot, in reason, be held questionable. Varieties of the Wahyi of Nabuwwat On pages 3 and 4 of his book Mr. Faruqi, after writing down the varieties of the Wahyi of Nabuwwat , has quoted the following passage from page 577 of lzala-i-Auham : “Every intelligent person would readily grasp if the Lord God is true in His promise, given in the verse wherein the word Khataman Nabiyeen occurs, and in the Hadith it has been clearly stated, that following the demise of the Holy Prophet, Gibreel has been barred from bringing the Wahyi of Nabuwwat on anyone. If all this is true, if all this is correct, then, after the Holy Prophet, no one can come as an Apostle. ” Then Mr. Faruqi writes: “Since the Divine Revelation had reached its fulfilment in the Holy Quran, and the religion of Islam had been perfected and a complete code of guidance for human beings had been vouchsafed, for all time to come, hence no full-fledged prophet can come after the last, the final and the best of the Prophets i. e. Muhammad (peace and the blessings of Allah be upon him). ” (Truth Triumphs, page 5) On page 21 and 22 of the same book, Mr. Faruqi writes: “A revelation to a prophet can modify or cancel the previous revealed laws, or the ‘Book’ but the revelation to a follower ( Mohaddath ) cannot do so. The revelation to a prophet helps complete the Divine Law for guidance, but since with the revelation of the Holy Quran, the Divine Laws have been completed for the guidance of mankind, hence the ‘revelation’ to the Promised Messiah is not the ‘revelation’ of prophethood. From these two passages quoted by Mr. Faruqi, it appears that for him Wahyi of Nabuwwat is only that Wahyi which embodies a new Sharia , since this Wahyi , alone can modify or cancel the whole, or a portion of an earlier Sharia. He is right when he says that this kind of Wahyi cannot come now, to