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70 With Love to Muhammad sa the Khātam-un-Nabiyyīninterpretation. Khātamiyyat is not in any way rejectedor denied if a prophet appears after the Holy Prophet(peace and blessings of Allāh be on him). However, ifKhātamiyyat is only taken to mean the last prophet,this would be a disparaging interpretation. Such aninterpretation would not be acceptable to followers ofIslām. 56Similarly, a Brelvī scholar, Maulwī Abu Al-Hasnat ‘Abd-ul-Haye of Farangimahal, Lucknow, writes:‘Ulemā Ahle Sunnah [i.e., Scholars of the People of theSunnah] also subscribe to the view that following theadvent of the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings ofAllāh be on him) no law-bearing prophet can come.The prophethood of the Holy Prophet (peace andblessings of Allāh be on him) is wide in scope. Anyprophet who would now come would be from theummah and follow his sharī‘ah. 57The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamā‘at has adopted the truth told bythe Holy Prophet Muhammad sa . This true belief was held bytruthful people and scholars long before our community wasfounded. If Farhan Khan insists on an explanation on the reasonwhy Allāh, the Exalted, chose the words He did in the HolyQur’ān, then we refer him to the aforementioned Deoband andBrelvī explanations!Moreover, let us suppose for a moment that Allāh, theExalted, had indeed said, Khātam-an-Nabiyyīnat-Tashrī‘ī or TheSeal of the Law Bearing prophets. If that had been the case, then56Tahzīr An-Nās, Page 357Maulvi Abd-ul-Haye, Majmū‘ah Fatā’wā, Volume 1, Page 17