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342 <strong>With</strong> <strong>Love</strong> <strong>to</strong> <strong>Muhammad</strong> sa the Khātam-un-Nabiyyīn<br />

Nabī’ullāh [Prophet of God], and in another aspect the Seal of<br />

prophethood should be safeguarded.<br />

[Nuzūl-ul-Masīh, Rūhānī Khazā’in, Volume 18, Pages 381-382,<br />

footnote]<br />

The charge advanced against me and my Jamā‘at, that we do<br />

not believe in the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allāh be<br />

upon him) as the Seal of Prophets, is al<strong>to</strong>gether false. The<br />

strength, certainty, comprehension and insight with which we<br />

acknowledge and believe in the Holy Prophet (peace and<br />

blessings of Allāh be upon him) as the Seal of the Prophets, cannot<br />

even be dreamed of by the other Muslims; they do not have the<br />

capacity <strong>to</strong> comprehend the reality and the mystery comprised<br />

in the Seal of prophethood. They have merely heard an expression<br />

from their ances<strong>to</strong>rs but they are unaware of its import and do<br />

not know what it signifies and what is meant by believing in it.<br />

But we believe with full comprehension—and God Almighty<br />

knows this well—that the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of<br />

Allāh be upon him) is the Seal of the prophets. God Almighty has<br />

disclosed the reality of the Seal of prophethood in such a manner<br />

that we derive special delight from its contemplation which<br />

cannot be conceived of by anyone except those who have drunk<br />

deep at this fountain.<br />

We can illustrate the Seal of prophethood by the example of<br />

the moon, which begins as a crescent and arrives at its<br />

perfection on the fourteenth night when it is called the full<br />

moon. In the same manner the excellences of prophethood<br />

reached their climax in the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of<br />

Allāh be upon him.) Those who believe that prophethood has<br />

been closed compulsorily, and that the Holy Prophet (peace and

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