With-Love-to-Muhammad

340 With Love to Muhammad sa the Khātam-un-Nabiyyīn
given through him and is his manifestation and receives grace
from him. God is the enemy of whoever regards the Holy
Qur’ān as abrogated and follows a law opposed to the law of
Muhammad and seeks to put his own law in practice and does
not follow the Holy Prophet sa and seeks to set up himself in his
place. But God loves him who makes the Holy Qur’ān his code
and regards the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allāh be
upon him) as the Seal of the prophets and knows that he is
dependent upon his grace. Such a man becomes the beloved of
God Almighty. God’s love pulls him towards Him and honors
him with His converse and displays signs in his support. When
such a person’s obedience to the Holy Prophet sa arrives at its
climax, God bestows a prophethood upon him which is a
reflection of the prophethood of Muhammad (peace and
blessings of Allāh be upon him), so that Islām may continue to
remain fresh and alive through such people and should remain
supreme over its opponents.
A foolish one, who is in truth an enemy of the faith, does
not desire that converse with God should continue as a
characteristic of Islām. He rather wishes that Islām too should
become a dead religion like all the others; but that is not what
God desires. In the revelation vouchsafed to me, God Almighty
has employed the expression prophet and messenger concerning
me hundreds of times, but these expressions mean only
frequent converse with God which comprises the unseen.
Everyone is entitled to use an expression in a particular sense.
God too designates frequent experience of converse with Him
as prophethood, meaning that such converse comprises a great
deal of that which is unseen. Accursed is he who claims to be a
prophet, but whose prophethood is divorced from the grace of
the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allāh be upon him).
The prophethood that has been bestowed on me belongs to the