With-Love-to-Muhammad

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Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allāh be upon him) and is
not a new prophethood. Its only purpose is to make manifest to
the world the truth of Islām and to display the righteousness of
the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allāh be upon him).
[Chashma-e-Ma‘rifat, Rūhānī Khazā’in, Volume 23, Pages 339-
341]
Remember, I am not a messenger or prophet by virtue of a new
law, a new claim or a new name; but I am a messenger and
prophet by virtue of perfect reflection. I am the mirror in which
the form and the prophethood of Muhammad are perfectly
reflected. Had I been a claimant of distinct prophethood, God
Almighty would not have named me Muhammad and Ahmad
and Mustafā and Mujtabā. Nor would I have been bestowed the
title of Khātam-ul-Auliyā’ [Seal of the Elect of God], resembling the
title of the Seal of the prophets. In such a case, I would have been
given a separate name. But God Almighty admitted me
completely into the being of Muhammad, so much so that He
did not desire that I should have a separate name or a separate
tomb, for a reflection cannot be separated from its original. Why
did this come about? It came about because God had appointed
the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allāh be upon him) as
Seal of Prophets, and, in order to maintain the parallel between
the Mosaic dispensation and the Muhammadī dispensation, it
was necessary that the Muhammadī Messiah should be
bestowed the dignity of prophethood like the Mosaic Messiah,
so that the Muhammadī prophethood should not be considered
deficient in any respect when compared to the Mosaic
prophethood. Therefore, God Almighty created me as a perfect
reflection, and invested me with the reflection of Muhammadī
prophethood, so that in one aspect I should bear the title of