With-Love-to-Muhammad

Appendix I 335
The Divine revelation:
338
ا اور ‎ا ا ‎م ‎۔
means that God felt that, because of its widespread corruption,
mankind was in need of a grand reformer, so the Seal of God
blessed a follower of the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of
Allāh be upon him) with the rank of being a follower on the one
hand, and a prophet on the other. Allāh the Exalted, bestowed
upon the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allāh be upon
him) the Seal for the purpose of conveying spiritual excellence,
which had not been bestowed on any other prophet and that is
why he was named the Seal of prophets. This means that
obedience to the Holy Prophet sa bestows the excellences of
prophethood and his spiritual attention fashions prophets. No
other prophet has been granted such spiritual power. This is the
meaning of the hadīth:
‏ْبِ‎
‏َا
aَِ‎اِ‏ ْ رَ‏ اِ‏ْلَ‏
‏َاءِ‏ aب
َ
ُ‎تaِ‎ َّ اءaا ُ َ َ ُ
‘The divines from among my people will be like the prophets of
Israel.’
There were many prophets from among the children of Israel,
but their prophethood was not because of their obedience to
Moses as ; rather it was a direct bounty from God. That is why
they were not designated prophets in one aspect and the
followers of a prophet in another, but were called independent
prophets and the dignity of prophethood was bestowed directly
upon them. Leaving them aside, if we look at the rest of the
children of Israel, we observe that they had very little guidance
338
‘What a grand task has been accomplished by the ‘feeling’ of God and His
Seal.’ Note: This Urdu revelation contains the actual English word ‘feeling’.