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180 <strong>With</strong> <strong>Love</strong> <strong>to</strong> <strong>Muhammad</strong> sa the Khātam-un-Nabiyyīn<br />

this fiction and presents it as if it is a well established principle<br />

of truth. In attempts <strong>to</strong> legitimize his fraud, Khan cites two<br />

examples: (1) Suhayb ar-Roomi who Khan states was an Arab<br />

sold in<strong>to</strong> the Byzantine lands, but was called The Roman even<br />

upon his return <strong>to</strong> Arab lands; and (2) Ahmad ibn Ibrahim who<br />

Khan states was called al-Dimashqi (the Syrian) but later called al-<br />

Dumyati (a city in Egypt) when he relocated <strong>to</strong> Egypt. From this<br />

faulty logic, Khan claims the Promised Messiah should be called<br />

the Indian or al-Hindi because he lived in India.<br />

Farhan Khan needs <strong>to</strong> realize that just because someone<br />

was called The Roman because he resided in the Byzantine<br />

Empire or someone was called Al-Dumyati because he spent<br />

some time in Egypt, does not change the concept of ancestry.<br />

Since when did one’s residence alter one’s ethnicity?! Did<br />

Farhan Khan s<strong>to</strong>p <strong>to</strong> think what the Byzantines called Suhayb?<br />

A Roman or an Arab? They certainly did not consider him a<br />

Roman, and his residence in the Byzantine Empire as a slave did<br />

not make them think he was any less an Arab.<br />

If Farhan Khan’s fabricated principle were held true,<br />

Hazrat Salman Farsi ra should have been called Salman Arabī ra<br />

because he lived in Medina. Nevertheless, Khan’s argument is<br />

irrelevant because the words in the hadīth are رجلaنaارس – a<br />

Man from Persia or of Persian descent. The word ‏”‏ن“‏ [min:<br />

from] is an indication that he shall have Persian ancestry, but<br />

will not necessarily be living in Persia.<br />

Questions for Farhan Khan:<br />

1. Why does he have a problem with the premise of the<br />

Ahmadiyya Muslim argument for the continuation of<br />

subordinate prophethood when Hazrat Ibn ‘Arabī rh has

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