With-Love-to-Muhammad

284 With Love to Muhammad sa the Khātam-un-Nabiyyīn
prophethood see no harm in building more mosques.
In fact, their zeal for building mosques is excessive.
There are towns which contain more mosques than
are really required; many, therefore, remain without
worshippers. In many towns mosques are to be
found at short distances from each other, so that their
superfluity is evident. If the expression the last of the
prophets entails the abolition of prophethood, the
expression last of the mosques must entail the abolition
of mosque-building after the prophet's mosque.
To be sure, solutions of this difficulty are attempted.
It is said that mosques built by Muslims after the
Holy Prophet’s sa time are mosques devoted to the
form of worship instituted by the Holy Prophet sa .
They are built for the same purpose as the Holy
Prophet sa built the first mosque. Mosques built by
Muslims, therefore, are the Prophet’s own mosques.
They cannot be separated from the model which they
imitate. Such mosques cannot and do not contradict
the fact that the Prophet’s mosque is the last. The
solution is a valid one. But it is equally valid to say
that the expression the last prophet does not prohibit
the coming of prophets who imitate the life and
example of the Holy Prophet sa , teach nothing new,
and only follow him and his teaching; who are
charged with the duty of spreading the Holy
Prophet’s teaching; who attribute their spiritual
acquisitions including prophethood to the spiritual
example and influence of their preceptor and master,
the Holy Prophet sa . The coming of such prophets
does not offend against the Holy Prophet’s
prerogative as the Last Prophet, in the same way and