A Misconception Removed — Page 3
A Misconception Removed 'A Warner came unto the world. ' 3 another rendering of which is: 'A Prophet came unto the world. ' At several other places in Brāhīn-e-Ahmadiyya, I have similarly been addressed as 'Messenger'. Thus if someone were to ask how it is possible for another Prophet to come after the Holy Prophetsa who is Khātamun Nabiyyīn, the simple answer is that no Prophet-new or old can come in the manner in which you people seek the descent of Jesusas in the latter days, while you also believe that he will be a Prophet and that he will continue to receive Prophetic revelation for forty years, and will thus surpass the period of the Holy Prophet'ssa Prophethood. Such a belief is undoubtedly sinful. The verse: and the Hadith: وَلَكِنْ رَّسُولَ اللَّهِ وَخَاتَمَ النَّبِيِّنَ لَا نَبِيَّ بَعْدِي categorically testify that this belief is totally false. I myself am strongly averse to such beliefs and I reso- 5 Khātamun Nabiyyin: The Seal of the Prophets. [Publishers] 6 But he is the Messenger of Allah and the Seal of the Prophets. Al- Ahzāb, 33:41 [Publishers] 7 There is no Prophet after me. (Bukhārī, Kitābul Fadā'il, Bābu Fadā'ili Ali bin Abi Talib"; Muslim, Kitābul Fadā'il, Bābu Min Fadā'ili Ali bin Abī Talib. ) [Publishers]