With-Love-to-Muhammad

156 With Love to Muhammad sa the Khātam-un-Nabiyyīn
meaning one who brings news of the unseen [from Allāh].” 154
According to Farhan Khan, Hazrat Ibn ‘Arabī rh wrote of two
kinds of nubuwwah:
1. Nubuwwah at-Tashrī‘ī (Law bearing prophethood)
2. Nubuwwah al-‘Āmah (prophethood for the common man)
Before proceeding further, let us analyze the contradiction
Farhan Khan has created for himself. If he considers Hazrat Ibn
‘Arabī rh as an authority on this issue, then in accordance with his
practice, he should have disagreed with him. He should have
perhaps written a book against Hazrat Ibn ‘Arabī rh and
criticized him for applying the term Nabī to people after the
Holy Prophet Muhammad sa . He should have written that since
the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa has written, “Lā Nabīyya Ba‘adī”
(There is no prophet after me), it was not only inappropriate,
but kufr (disbelief) for Hazrat Ibn ‘Arabi rh to apply this term to
anyone in any sense of the term whatsoever! Regardless of the
meanings and applications of the term Nabī used by Hazrat Ibn
‘Arabī rh , the absoluteness of Farhan Khan’s stance on the finality
of prophethood is severely damaged when he accepts that the
term Nabī can be applied to others after the Holy Prophet
Muhammad sa in another form. In his chapter, he has made an
announcement to the world that he is willing to accept that one
form of nubuwwah (prophethood) has continued after the Holy
Prophet Muhammad sa and in one sense, the Holy Prophet
Muhammad sa is not the last prophet or Nabī! This is further
illustrated, as follows:
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Khan, With Love, Page 38