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Continuation of Prophethood according to the Holy Qur’ān 249
These are then the four kinds of excellence that we
beg of Allāh, the Exalted, five times in our daily
prayers. In other words, we seek from God, the
Supreme, heavenly signs and whoso does not aspire
to them lacks faith. The very purpose of our prayer is
this aspiration which we seek from God, the Great,
five times in our daily prayers, in four shapes as four
signs, seeking thus the magnification of God, the
Most High, in the earth, so that our lives may not
defile the earth as lives of denial and doubt and
indifference. A person glorifies God, the Sublime,
only when he begs of Him these four signs. 241
About the word shahīd, he writes the following and this is the
official stance of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamā‘at on the word
shahīd:
Common people have understood the word shahīd to
only mean “one who is killed by an arrow or a gun,
or dies from an accident.” However, next to Allāh,
the Exalted, this is not the only status of shahādat.... In
my opinion, the actual meaning of a shahīd is
something other than destruction of the body and it
is a state of being in relation to the heart. 242
Explaining this further, he writes:
The status of shahādat refers to a status at which man,
with the strength of his faith, has gained such a
conviction in God and the Day of Judgment, that it is
241
Commentary of The Holy Qur’ān- Sūrah Al-Fātihah, Pages 241-242
242
Al-Hakam, Page 18, Volume 9: May 24, 1905