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Meanings of Khātam in Dictionaries
In order to understand the meaning of Khātam-un-
Nabiyyīn (lit. Seal of the Prophets), it is essential to understand the
key operative words and the connotative meanings associated
with them in the Arabic language.
Under the chapter entitled Classical Lexicons and the Word
(Khātam), Farhan Khan criticizes the Ahmadiyya خاتم
understanding of the word خاتم (khātam, lit. seal) and presents
isolated quotations from various lexicons or dictionaries in
خاتم support of his opinion that “...all of the lexicons understand
to mean last or finish, and some even reference Sūrah Al-Ahzab
verse 41 saying Muhammad عليہ الصالة و السالم is the last of the
prophets” 1 . We call into question the intellectual integrity of the
quotations presented by Farhan Khan based on the fact that he
did not go into a sufficient discussion of the word khātam in the
context of any of his quotations. Any honest individual can go
through those entries and come to the conclusion that they were
presented with much bias, predisposed to the belief that Hazrat
1
Farhan Khan, With Love to the Ahmadīs of the world (U.S.A, 2010), Page 58
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