The Verdict of the Quran and Sunnah — Page 11
The Status of the Promised Messiah as B a w a Sahib raises an objection to the following excerpt from Hadrat Mirz a Bash i r Ahmad’s ra book, Kalimatul-Fa s l : Each and every Prophet is given excellences according to his capacity and mission. Some are given more and others less, but the Promised Messiah as was bestowed prophethood only after he attained the sum total of excellences of the prophethood of Muhammad sa , and he became capable of being called a zill i nab i [a Prophet by way of reflection]. Hence, the title of zill i nab i did not set him back, but moved him so far forward that it brought him into the companionship of the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa. ( Kalimatul-Fa s l , p. 113) It is well known that the Urdu phrase ‘ pehl u mei n kharh a hon a ’ used for ‘companionship,’ in the above citation is an idiom employed in divine scriptures that in no way implies equality in status. To indicate equality, the appropriate Urdu terms are hamm mar t abah [alike in status] or hamm pallah [equal in rank]. It seems