With-Love-to-Muhammad

Continuation of Prophethood according to the Holy Qur’ān 249These are then the four kinds of excellence that webeg of Allāh, the Exalted, five times in our dailyprayers. In other words, we seek from God, theSupreme, heavenly signs and whoso does not aspireto them lacks faith. The very purpose of our prayer isthis aspiration which we seek from God, the Great,five times in our daily prayers, in four shapes as foursigns, seeking thus the magnification of God, theMost High, in the earth, so that our lives may notdefile the earth as lives of denial and doubt andindifference. A person glorifies God, the Sublime,only when he begs of Him these four signs. 241About the word shahīd, he writes the following and this is theofficial stance of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamā‘at on the wordshahīd:Common people have understood the word shahīd toonly 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.... Inmy opinion, the actual meaning of a shahīd issomething other than destruction of the body and itis a state of being in relation to the heart. 242Explaining this further, he writes:The status of shahādat refers to a status at which man,with the strength of his faith, has gained such aconviction in God and the Day of Judgment, that it is241Commentary of The Holy Qur’ān- Sūrah Al-Fātihah, Pages 241-242242Al-Hakam, Page 18, Volume 9: May 24, 1905