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

Farhan Khan also argues that his position that the Holy<br />

Prophet sa is the last chronological prophet is simple and<br />

straightforward while the Ahmadiyya Muslim position is<br />

complicated. This argument represents an appeal-<strong>to</strong>-emotion<br />

fallacy, which attempts <strong>to</strong> obscure the logical argument with a<br />

superficial appeal. This tactic is typically applied when there is<br />

an inexplicable contradiction. For example, while Farhan Khan<br />

believes the Holy Prophet <strong>Muhammad</strong> sa is the last prophet in<br />

the sense of time and place, he conveniently forgets that he<br />

himself believes in the coming of a prophet after the Holy<br />

Prophet <strong>Muhammad</strong> sa : ‘Īsā bin Mariam as . Strangely, Khan<br />

believes that ‘Īsā as is somehow precluded from being “the last”<br />

because he came earlier as well.<br />

To illustrate the matter in another way: If John enters a<br />

room and leaves, then Fred enters the room and leaves, then<br />

John re-enters the room and leaves; who was the last person in<br />

the room?<br />

Obviously, John was the last person in the room. However,<br />

Khan’s reasoning would like us <strong>to</strong> believe that Fred is the last<br />

person in the room, while simultaneously believing that John is<br />

the last person in the room. The two conditions are mutually<br />

exclusive and present a contradiction.

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