With-Love-to-Muhammad

152 With Love to Muhammad sa the Khātam-un-Nabiyyīn
Holy Prophet Muhammad sa the position of the ‘gold brick’ to
differentiate between their statuses. In the same way, the
Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamā‘at believes that the position of the
Holy Prophet Muhammad sa is that of a ‘gold brick,’ not a brick
in one of the corners of a palace in literal terms, and this means
that he is the greatest of the prophets. Compared to him, the
Promised Messiah as holds the position of a ‘silver brick’ which
means that he is subordinate to the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa
and gains his position only through utmost obedience to him
and through his spiritual grace.
Ninth, Farhan Khan says:
The Ahmadī [Muslim]s argue that the house is a
metaphor representing the complete law of Islām,
and each brick is a law that the prophets brought
forth... the Ahmadī analogy would not make sense,
because some prophets did not build onto the
existing laws, which is analogous to adding another
brick. Some completely removed the previous law
altogether and established an entirely new one. For
example, while there are striking similarities, the
Islāmic sharī‘ah is not based upon the 613 Jewish
mitzvahs. The only way those kinds of prophets
would fit into the Ahmadī [Muslim] analogy would
be if they completely destroyed the structure and
started anew. 151
This is an amusing argument presented by Farhan Khan. It
displays how he not only tries to take an analogy literally himself
but tries to apply the Ahmadiyya Muslim understanding of the
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Khan, With Love, Page 15