With-Love-to-Muhammad

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“I am the Last Brick and I am the Last of the prophets” 139
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ن ِ
‏َہ aو وون
بِہ aو جَ‏ ب
اتمaابِ‎‏ّ‏ َ ‏َۃaوأاaخَ‏ ا‏َاaا
‏َالa
ُ و ِ‎تہ aذِ‏ ہ aابِ‎‏َۃ a
‏ُون a
ّ بِ‎
Narrated Abū Hurairah ra : Allāh’s Apostle sa said,
“Surely, my similitude in comparison with the other
prophets before me, is that of a man who has built a
house nicely and beautifully, except for a place of one
brick in a corner. The people go about it and wonder
at its beauty, but say: ‘Would that this brick be put in
its place!’ So I am that brick, and I am the Khātam-un-
Nabiyyīn.” 135
These ahādīth speak of a parable given by the Holy Prophet sa and
parables are not meant to be understood literally. A literal
understanding of these ahādīth would make absolutely no sense.
The status of the Holy Prophet sa is too high for him to be simply
considered “a brick” in one of the corners! Ahmadī Muslims
strongly reject any such understanding as it violates the sanctity
of the station of the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa . If this had been
a literal comparison, it would have placed the Holy Prophet sa in
the best place of the palace, not somewhere in one of its corners.
One of the narrations even explains that the brick is actually the
khātam (seal) which verifies and completes the palace. The
khātam or seal of authentication was not present before the
advent of the Holy Prophet sa but when he came, the palace was
completed. In other words, when the Khātam-un-Nabiyyīn – the
Holy Prophet Muhammad sa – came, the palace representing the
prophets was completed because he verified the truth of all the
prophets.
135
Sahīh Bukhārī, Volume 4, Book 56, Hadīth Number 735