With-Love-to-Muhammad

248 With Love to Muhammad sa the Khātam-un-Nabiyyīn
described as the prophets, the righteous, the
witnesses and the virtuous. 240
The Promised Messiah as further elaborates as follows:
We supplicate in our prayers: Guide us along the
straight path, the path of those upon whom Thou
hast bestowed Thy favors. This means for the
purpose of advancement in faith and for the benefit
of mankind we seek four types of signs in the shape
of four excellences – the excellence of the prophets,
the excellence of the righteous, the excellence of the
witnesses, and the excellence of the virtuous. The
special excellence of a prophet is to receive from God
knowledge of things hidden which should be a sign.
The excellence of the righteous is that one should so
completely possess the treasure of truth, the verities
comprised in the Book of Allāh, that because of their
outstanding character they should be a sign,
confirming the integrity of the righteous person. The
excellence of the witness is that he should possess
such firmness of faith and such strength of character
and such steadfastness in times of trial and troubles
and hardships that they should be a sign for him. The
excellence of the man of virtue is that he should so
completely discard every type of mischief and
become such an embodiment of goodness that his
virtue should become a sign, because of its
extraordinary character.
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Commentary of The Holy Qur’ān- Sūrah Al-Fātihah, Pages 238-239