With-Love-to-Muhammad

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290 With Love to Muhammad sa the Khātam-un-Nabiyyīn
It is simply ridiculous to see Farhan Khan’s extraordinary bias
against the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamā‘at. The above ahādīth are
recorded right next to the hadīth under discussion, but Farhan
Khan deliberately chose to not mention them. Instead, he went
out of his way to select a narration where the sequence of his
liking was found and he used that to prove his points. However,
the truth is that the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa did not speak of
Masjid-an-Nabwī as the last of the mosques in any of these
narrations. He merely pointed out the importance of these three
mosques, that is, Masjid-an-Nabwī, Masjid Al-Harām, and Bait-ul-
Muqaddas, and he has spoken of them in different sequences.
There are times when he mentioned Masjid-an-Nabwī first, and
there are times when he mentioned it second, and there are
times when he mentioned it last. What does this tell us? This
tells us that he had no intention to speak of Masjid-an-Nabwī as the
last mosque!
Fourth, Farhan Khan’s argument is inconsistent with the
context of the hadīth under discussion. The Holy Prophet
Muhammad sa himself clarified that he is only speaking of
mosques in respect of their greatness or status as indicated by
the words:
‏ْہِ‏ aو َ َّ َ َ مa
َ َa aااللهُ‏ َّ َa aااللهِ‏ ولِ‏ ُ َ َa a ِ ۃ َ َ
َ ْ ُ
ْاa ن a
َْ لُ‏
ِa وَ‏ اہ a ِ ا َa ِ ۃً‏ َ a َ
ِ ن aأ‏ْفِ‏
أ اa َ َ امَ‏
ْ د
اْ جِ‏
‏ْحَ‏
ر
ْ جِ‏ دِ‏ aر
إلاa َ اجِ‏ دِ‏
Prayer in the mosque of Allāh’s Messenger sa is more
excellent than a thousand prayers in other mosques,
except the Masjid Al-Harām
Hence, he was speaking in terms of status and this clearly
demonstrates that, later in the same narration, he used the word