With-Love-to-Muhammad

“I am the Last Brick and I am the Last of the prophets” 153
hadīth literally as well. The fact of the matter is that this hadīth is
simply an analogy and whether the brick represents a ‘Prophet’
or the ‘law of a Prophet,’ it cannot be taken literally.
Nevertheless, this explanation of the Ahmadiyya Muslim
understanding, presented by Farhan Khan, is faulty in itself.
Ahmadī Muslims see this hadīth as an explanation of the
following verse of the Holy Qur’ān:
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فِيهْ‏ ‏َا كُتُبٌ‏ قَيّ‏ ‏ِمَةٌؕ‏
Therein are lasting commandments. 152
This means that the Qur’ān contains a combination of teachings
and commandments of previous laws. The laws and teachings
of the previous prophets contributed to the structure of the
Muhammadan Law. While some laws were definitely abrogated
by others, there is no denying the fact that each prophet brought
the same basic teachings, such as the belief in One God, His
angels, His prophets, and so on, and these teachings became
increasingly complex with the advancement of the human mind
over the ages until the revelation of the Holy Qur’ān – the most
complete, universal law. In other words, the laws of any given
prophet were not abrogated in their entirety. Only those laws
which dealt with the specific needs of specific nations were
abrogated, while the main teachings continued to be taught as
they were.
In conclusion, the Ahmadiyya Muslim understanding is
supported by the previous sages of Islām, while the explanation
of Farhan Khan is wrong and unacceptable to any Muslim as it
is against the very status of the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa . The
analogy given by the Holy Prophet sa should be studied with
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Sūrah Al-Bayyinah, 98:4