With-Love-to-Muhammad

22 With Love to Muhammad sa the Khātam-un-Nabiyyīn
If the root-letters meant attestation or authentication, to
make it mean most attested, most authenticated, of
highest quality or best, اخْ‏ تَمُ‏ [akhtamu] should have been
used...” 7
The above quotion exposes Farhan Khan’s pitiable knowledge
of Arabic grammar and its linguistic structure. We are replying
to this argument only for the benefit of those unfamiliar with the
basics of Arabic; otherwise, anyone with rudimentary
knowledge would be aware that this is not how the meaning
Best of the prophets is derived from the phrase Khātam-un-
Nabiyyīn.
We Ahmadī Muslims translate Khātam-un-Nabiyyīn as Seal of
the prophets based on the primary and fundamental meaning of
the word khātam, as stated in the dictionaries. We also
understand the phrase to mean Best of the Prophets, based upon
the derived connotation and idiomatic usage of the word
khātam. When the word khātam comes as اف (Mudāf or
Possessed) of a group of people ‏–‏افaاہ)‏ Mudāf Ilaih), then the
idiomatic meaning of the phrase is best of the group. This idiomatic
application of the word khātam is actually derived from, and a
logical result of, the primary meaning “seal”. The one who is the
“Seal of the prophets” is, quite obviously, also the best among
them.
The Arabic “lesson” that Farhan Khan has tried to give in his
chapter, quite sadly, reveals how unqualified he is to give
Arabic lessons! If the native Arabs customarily use the word
khātam in a phrase to idiomatically convey the meaning of “the
best,” then who is Farhan Khan – or anyone else for that matter
– to contradict them? Who is he to question the idiomatic usage
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Khan, With Love, Page 63