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Statements of Hazrat Muhy-ud-dīn Ibn ‘Arabī rh 175<br />

Jesus as and not by him. It would also amount—God<br />

forbid—<strong>to</strong> falsifying the verse:<br />

180<br />

وَلٰكِنْ‏ رَّسُ‏ وْلَ‏ ٰ اهللّ‏ ِ وَخَاتمَ‏ َ ٖ النَّبِينّ‏ َ<br />

This verse contains an implied prophecy that<br />

prophethood has now been sealed till the Day of<br />

Judgement, and no one—with the exception of the<br />

burūz, who is [metaphorically] the Holy Prophet sa<br />

himself—has the power <strong>to</strong> receive such manifest<br />

divine knowledge as is received by prophets as . Since I<br />

am the Burūz of <strong>Muhammad</strong> sa that has been ordained<br />

since eternity, I have, therefore, been granted<br />

prophethood in the form of burūz, and the entire<br />

world is powerless <strong>to</strong> stand against it, for a Seal has<br />

been set upon prophethood. A burūz of <strong>Muhammad</strong> sa<br />

was destined <strong>to</strong> come in the latter days with all the<br />

perfections of <strong>Muhammad</strong> sa , and so he has come.<br />

Now this is the only window through which one can<br />

get water from the fountainhead of prophethood. 181<br />

This quotation is so clear and so vivid in its explanation of the<br />

concept of burūz that only the bias of Farhan Khan’s mind can<br />

refuse <strong>to</strong> understand it. Hence, the onus of proving that a<br />

contradiction somehow exists in the above quotation is upon<br />

Farhan Khan.<br />

In another book, the Promised Messiah as provides further<br />

explanation:<br />

180<br />

But he is the Messenger of Allāh and the Seal of the Prophets.—Al- Ahzāb,<br />

33:41 [Publishers]<br />

181 A Misconception Removed, Pages 15-19

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