With-Love-to-Muhammad

122 With Love to Muhammad sa the Khātam-un-Nabiyyīn
him from God Al-Mighty as a special blessing. Farhan Khan’s
understanding is now refuted with the following points.
Everyday Language
First, one must pay a little attention to the actual words
of the Holy Prophet sa . He says, “Nothing remains of
prophethood except mubashirāt”. How beautifully has the Holy
Prophet sa made the prophecy of the continuation of
prophethood in this ummah. Look at the sentence structure! We
casually make similar statements every day.
If there is a baseball game that is about to end, we say,
“The game is over except one inning.” A baseball game is made
up of several innings, but the game is not over if there is still
one inning left open for play.
For any tournament that is about to end, we say, “Now
there are only 1 or 2 matches remaining” or “Nothing remains
of the tournament except 1 or 2 matches”. An open match is still
an inseparable part of the tournament and we cannot say that
the tournament is finished so long as that match is still open.
If one wants to say, “The food is finished, except some
bread,” it is translated in Arabic as follows:
مaبقaنaاامِ‏ aالاaاخبز !
It would be wrong to say that the bread is not food for we know
that the bread is a part of the meal. So long as that bread still
exists, we cannot say that the food is finished.
These are all the examples where the components are
inseparable parts of the whole, and the difference is only in
terms of magnitude and/or frequency. In the same way, the
Holy Prophet sa said: “Nothing remains of prophethood except