With-Love-to-Muhammad

112 With Love to Muhammad sa the Khātam-un-Nabiyyīn
Khan’s points. He misrepresents Ahmadiyya Muslim beliefs by
describing them in the following words:
In this usage, the word ba‘ad does not mean after.
According to Lane’s Lexicon, page 225, the word
ba‘ad also means behind. Based on the usage of the
Prophet, one can see that the actual meaning of this
statement is no Prophet behind me in the sense that the
Prophet Muhammad was departing to Tabūk and
was not leaving behind a Prophet, as Mūsā did when
he left Harūn behind. 102
This is another one of those dishonesties of Farhan Khan!
Ahmadī Muslims did not just open the dictionary and chose to
take a secondary meaning of ba‘ad in order to conform the
meaning of the hadīth to their understanding. This is a blatant lie
against Ahmadiyya Muslim beliefs!
First, as shown in the previous chapter, this
understanding is in absolute accordance with the
understanding of Hazrat Shāh Waliullāh Mohaddes Dehlavī rh ,
universally acknowledged as the Mujaddid of the 12th century,
who writes in Qurat-ul-Ainīn Fī Tafsīl Al-Shaikhain, Page 602:
It must be clearly understood that the object of
this hadīth is to highlight the appointment of
Hazrat ‘Alī ra to act in the place of or as an in
charge of the region while the Holy Prophet sa
was to be absent from Medina during his
expedition to Tabūk. It was also done to
highlight Hazrat ‘Alī’s ra resemblance to Hazrat
Hārūn as when Hazrat Mūsā as had journeyed to
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Khan, With Love, Page 17