The Mirror of the Excellences of Islam — Page 145
144 Ā'ĪNA-E-KAMĀLĀT-E-ISLĀM―DĀFI‘UL-WASĀWIS Meaning that: Tell them that my prayer and my striving in worship, my sacrifices, my remaining alive, and my dying, are all for the sake of and in the way of God—that same God who is the Lord of all the worlds, who has no partner. And this is what I have been commanded to do. And I am the Foremost of the Muslims; that is, from the beginning of the world to its end, there is no other perfect man like me to attain such a lofty degree of self-annihilation in Allah and be able to return all the trusts of God Almighty to Him. AUTHOR'S MARGIN NOTE Our Holy Prophets as has complete superiority over all Prophets This verse contains a refutation of those ignorant Unitarians who hold the belief that our Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, is not proven to have complete superiority over the other Prophets, and who say, on the basis of aḥādīth of weak authenticity, that the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, has forbid- den that he be given superiority even over Yūnus bin Mattā [Jonah son of Amittai]. These ignorant people do not realize that even if that hadith is authentic, it is only an expression of humility and mod- esty, which was ever the way of our Master, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. There is a time and occasion for everything. How ignorant and mischievous it would be if a righteous man, who describes himself in a letter as 'the lowliest of all servants of Allah', were to truly be considered the worst of all people of the world, to the extent of being even worse than the idolaters and all transgressors, because he himself acknowledges that he is the lowliest of all servants of Allah! Think it over carefully. Allah, glorified be His eminence, names the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, as 1. Şahih al-Bukhārī, Kitāb Aḥādithul-Anbiyā', Bāb Qaulullāh Ta‘ālā: Wa Inna Yūnusa Laminul-Mursalin, Hadith 3412 [Publisher]