With-Love-to-Muhammad

152 With Love to Muhammad sa the Khātam-un-NabiyyīnHoly Prophet Muhammad sa the position of the ‘gold brick’ todifferentiate between their statuses. In the same way, theAhmadiyya Muslim Jamā‘at believes that the position of theHoly Prophet Muhammad sa is that of a ‘gold brick,’ not a brickin one of the corners of a palace in literal terms, and this meansthat he is the greatest of the prophets. Compared to him, thePromised Messiah as holds the position of a ‘silver brick’ whichmeans that he is subordinate to the Holy Prophet Muhammad saand gains his position only through utmost obedience to himand through his spiritual grace.Ninth, Farhan Khan says:The Ahmadī [Muslim]s argue that the house is ametaphor representing the complete law of Islām,and each brick is a law that the prophets broughtforth... the Ahmadī analogy would not make sense,because some prophets did not build onto theexisting laws, which is analogous to adding anotherbrick. Some completely removed the previous lawaltogether and established an entirely new one. Forexample, while there are striking similarities, theIslāmic sharī‘ah is not based upon the 613 Jewishmitzvahs. The only way those kinds of prophetswould fit into the Ahmadī [Muslim] analogy wouldbe if they completely destroyed the structure andstarted anew. 151This is an amusing argument presented by Farhan Khan. Itdisplays how he not only tries to take an analogy literally himselfbut tries to apply the Ahmadiyya Muslim understanding of the151Khan, With Love, Page 15