Miftah-ul-Janna (Booklet for way to Paradise)

however, say that there is yet another sinless group of people.]
5– Fetânat: It means that all Prophets ‘’alaihim-us-salawât-uwa-t-teslîmât’
are wiser than other people.
There are five attributes that are jâiz (permissible, possible) for
Prophets ‘’alaihim-us-salawât-u-wa-t-teslîmât’ to have: They eat
and drink; they become ill; they die, (they are mortal,) they
migrate from one world, (i.e. this world,) to the other world, (i.e.
the Hereafter;) they are not fond of the world.
There are twenty-eight Prophets whose blessed names are
given in the Qur’ân-i-’adhîm-ush-shân. There is a scholarly
statement saying that it is wâjib for everybody to know them.
Names of Prophets ‘’alaihim-us-salawât-u-wa-s-salâm’:
’Âdem, Idris, Nûh, Shis [Seth], Hûd, Sâlih, Lût, Ibrâhîm,
Ismâ’îl, Is-haqq, Ya’qûb, Yûsuf, Mûsâ, Hârûn, Dâwûd, Suleymân,
Yûnus, Ilyâs, Elyesa’, Zulkifl, Eyyûb (or Ayyûb), Zekeriyyâ,
Yahyâ, ’Îsâ, and Muhammad ‘salawâtullâhi ’alâ nebiyyinâ wa
’alaihim’. There was a disagreement over the names of Uzeyr (or
Uzayr), Loqmân (or Luqmân), and Zulqarneyn. Some (of the
Islamic scholars) said that these three people and also Hidir
‘’alaihis-salâm’ were Prophets, while others, (i.e. other Islamic
scholars,) said that they were Awliyâ. It is written in the thirtysixth
letter of the second volume of Maktûbât-i-Ma’thûmiyya [1]
that there is a convincing scholarly traditional citation stating that
Hidir ‘’alaihis-salâm’ was a Prophet. As is stated in the hundred
and eighty-second letter, Hidir’s ‘’alaihis-salâm’ appearing and
doing things in the human guise does not show that he is living.
Allâhu ta’âlâ has allowed his soul as well as the souls of many
Prophets and Awliyâ to be seen in the human guise. Seeing them
does not show that they are alive.
And also, what is incumbent upon you is to say, “I am, alhamd-u-lillah,
a descendant of Hadrat ’Âdam ‘’alaihis-salâm’ and
one of the Ummat (Believers, Muslims) of the Prophet of the
latest time, Muhammad ‘’alaihis-salât-u-wa-s-salâm’.” Wahhâbîs
deny the fact that ’Âdam ‘’alaihi-s-salâm’ was a Prophet.
Therefore, and also because they call Muslims ‘polytheists’, they
are kâfirs (disbelievers).
[1] Written by Muhammad Ma’thûm Fârûqî ‘rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ ’alaih’
(1007, Serhend – 1079 [1668 A.D.], the same place), the third son of
Hadrat Imâm Rabbânî ‘quddisa sirruhumâ’.
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