Muhammad(S)istheLastProphetAllamahSayyidSa'eedAkhtarRizvi-XKP

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1ChapterIntroduction

"Sauti Ya Bilal" a Swahili periodical of Bilal Muslim Mission of Tanzania, has been generallyacknowledgedasoneofthemostinformativeandcomprehensivereligiousperiodicalsinEastAfrica.In1968, the Mission gave a detailed treatment to the subject of 'Khatm an-Nubuwwah'(Finality ofProphethood), in the formof threearticleswhichappeared in threeconsecutive issues.Nowonder theserieswaswell-receivedby.thereaders-learnedandlaymenalike.ThatMuhammad (S), the Holy Prophet of Islam, was the last Prophet, and that nobodywas to get

Prophethoodafterhim, isasimpleyetcardinalbeliefofeveryMuslim.TheMissionhadexplained thatIslamic belief in those Swahili articles, quoting verses from Qur'an, and traditions from varioustraditionalistsincorroboration.A Qadiani missionary wrote a long letter in Swahili, making a frustrated attempt to object to the

contentsofthosearticles.ThisletterwasansweredbySayyidSa’eedAkhtarRizvi,ChiefMissionary.Astherewas no reply forthcoming from the saidmissionary, silence prevailed.However, a ShiaAfricanstudentlateronwrotetoMr.RizviseekingclarificationsoverthebeliefofKhatman-Nubuwwah;andinthat letter certain passageswere found to bear great similarity to the previous letter from theQadianimissionary.Obviously, theQadianiswerecirculating their letterorperhapspropagating its contents,despite the

refutationbyMr.Rizvi.Thus,theMissionwasleftwithnoalternativebuttocirculateMr.Rizvi'sreply,whichassumedformof24foolscapcyclostyledpages.AcopywassenttothesaidShiastudent,wholateronexpressedhiscompletesatisfaction.These events were reported in the Bilal News as usual, and Haji Hasanaly P. Ebrahim (Karachi)

requestedforafewcopies.AsthearticleswereinSwahili,Mr.RizviverykindlyagreedandpromisedtotranslatethemintoEnglishforthebenefitofawiderpublic.Inthemeantime,IrequestedMr.Rizvitoaddandargumentcertainrelevanttopicssoastomaketheendeavorcomplete.IamgratefultoMr.Rizviforhavingconcededtomyrequest.ThisbookletistheresultofMr.Rizvi's

laudableendeavor, andvarious topics relevant to the subjectofKhatman-Nubuwwahare amplydealtwith.Italsogivesusaninsight intothethinkingwaysof thedistracted,amongthemtheQadianis.MayAllahAcceptthis,andshowerHisBlessingsuponMr.Rizvi.AsgheraliM.M.JafferJune,1971

Part1FinalityofProphethood,Khatman-Nubuwwah

(A)ContinuityofReligiousLeadership

God,inHisgrace,neverleftmankindwithoutareligiousguide.Thatguidemaybeaprophet;a'Rasul'oran'Imam'.Thefirstman,ProphetAdam(a.s.),wasmadeavicegerentofAllahonthisearth,sothathemightleadhischildrenontherightpath.Sincethen,prophetsandmessengersweresenttoalltheregionsandallthepeoples.Allahsaysinthe

Qur'an:"Andthereneverwasapeoplewithoutawarnerhavinglivedamongthem".(Qur'an,35:24)Inall,therecame124,000prophetsfromGod.Manyoftheprophetsweresenttooneortwovillages,

someeventoonefamilyoroneman.Othersweresenttoabiggerarea;stillotherstoawholetribe.Butnoneofthem,beforeourHolyProphet,wassenttothewholemankind.OurHolyProphetwassenttothewholemankindforuptotheendoftheworld.Nootherprophetisto

comeafterhim.Hewas,andis,theLastProphet.

(B)EvolutionofReligiousGuidance

ItappearsfromthehistoryofdivinereligionsthatGodsentfromtimetotimemany 'Shari'ahs' (DivineLaws) which were suitable to that particular era. Prophet Noah (a.s.) brought a Shari'ah which wassimpletoagreatextent.AndthatShari'ahwasfollowedbyotherprophetsup to theadventofProphetAbraham (a.s.). Prophet Abraham (a.s.) was given a Shari'ah which was more elaborate and morecomprehensivethanthepreviousone.TheShari'ahofProphetAbrahamremainedinforceforthechildrenofIsraeluptothetimeofProphet

Moses(a.s.).WhenProphetMoses(p.uh.)wasgivenTorah(Law), itwasareallycomprehensiveandfullydetailedShari'ah,whichwas followedbyall theprophetsofBani Israel tillProphet Jesus (a.s.)came.ProphetJesus(a.s.)perfectedtheShari'ahofProphetMoses(a.s.)andmadeadjustmentsaccordingto the time.The,Shari'ahofProphetJesus(a.s.) remainedvalid till thearrivalof theHolyProphetofIslam(S).ComingtotheotherbranchofthefamilyofProphetAbraham(a.s.)wefindthatthechildrenofIsmael

wereexpected to follow theShari'ahofProphetAbraham(a.s.)up to the timeof theHolyProphetofIslam, Prophet Muhammad Al-Mustafa (S). When he came, he abrogated and cancelled all theprevious Shari'ahs, and brought the final, most comprehensive and most suitable andmoderateShari'ahofall,whichcanmeetthechallengeofthechangingtrineswithoutanydifficultyuptotheDayof'Qiyamah(theDayofResurrection).

(C)Why'Shari'ahs'wereChanged?

Itmaybeasked:WhythechangesinShari'ahs?Whythegradualrevelation?Andwhytheseparate'Ulul-Azm'(Prominent)prophetscomingoneafteranother?Well,whenachildisborn,theparentsmakesomegarmentsforhim.Andasthechildcontinuestogrow,theoldclothesarediscarded,andnewonesmadeaccording to the growth of the body of the child, this continuous during his childhood, during hisadolescence, during his teenage, till a time comes after 25 or 30 years, when the body reaches itsmaximumheightandattainsitsfullgrowth.Afterthat,thesizewhichfitshimatthattimecontinuestofithimuptotheendofhislife.Nobodywill

suggest thatas thechildat theageof25years isexpected tobe5 ft.6 in. tall,heshouldbegiven theclothes of that size on the day of his birth. Nor will anybody think that a young man of 30 yearsshouldwear the same clothes which he used to wear when he was 10 years old. Likewise, wemaysupposethatthehumanitywasachildinthedaysofProphetAdam(a.s.)andNoah(a.s.),whichreachedits adolescence in the days of Prophet Abraham (a.s.) and continued to grow (mentally, socially andspiritually).Accordingly,AllahcontinueddiscardingandabrogatingoldShari'ahsandsendingnewonesaccordingtothesocial,intellectualandspiritualneedsofthetimes.ThiscontinueduptothetimeofProphetMuhammadAl-Mustafa(S).Thistimemaybecomparedasthe

ageof25or30yearsofamanwhenhereachesthefullheightandthehighestpeakofhisstrength.Nowthereisnochancethathewilloutgrowhisclothes,andthesizeofwhatageremainsinforcetillhislastday.Whenhumanityreachedthatstage,AllahsentthefinalShari'ahwhichwastoservethemankindtothelastdayoftheworld.AfterMuhammadAl-Mustafa(S)therewasnoneedforanyShari'ah;therewasnoneed foranynewProphetormessenger fromGod.And itwas for this reason thathewasdeclaredbyAllahtobethelastoftheprophets.Question: Admitted that the body does not grow in height after about 25 years; but still

there appear changes in the body.A personmay gain or lose considerableweight, necessitating somechangesinthemeasurementofhisclothes.Therefore,nowcanyousaythattherewillneverbeanyneedforanewShari'ahafterIslam?Answer:Clothesusuallydonotadjust themselvesaccording to thebuildofabody.But Islamhasa

built-incapacitytocoverallthepossiblesituationswhichamanfacesduringhislife-time.Inthisrespect,we may compare it with those sophisticated electronic devices which automatically adjust to thetemperature, light,humidityandotherrelevantfactorsof theoperatingtime.Ifyoutakeagoodcamera,youwillfindthatitslensmakesallthenecessaryadjustmentsaccordingtothedistanceandlightwithoutanyneedforyoutomakethoseadjustmentsmanually.Likewise, Islam has all the rules for all the possible situations, and as soon as a given situation

changes,theShari'ah'automaticallyrecognizesthechangeandanothersetofrulesapplicabletothenewsituationcomesintoforceimmediatelyandautomatically.ThisflexibilityistheuniquefeatureofIslamwhichisnotfoundinanyotherreligion.Andthisfeature

eliminatestheneedofanewShari'ah.Ofcourse,theneedforaninterpreteroftheQur'anandprotectoroftheShari'ahwillremainforever.

ButAllahappointedImamsforthispurpose,aftertheLastProphet.ThechainoftheProphethoodcameto

anendandanewsystemofreligiousleadership,knownas 'Imamat'wasintroduced.TheHolyProphetsaid"BaniIsrael,prophetswereleadingthem;whenaprophetdiedanotherprophetsucceededhim.Butaftermethereisnoprophet,andsurelytherewillbeCaliphs".

2ChapterChallengeofAhmadism

TheuniversallyacceptedidealismbelievelastProphetMuhammadAl-Mustafa(S)wasthelastProphetofGodwasunfortunatelychallengedsome70yearsagobyoneMirzaGhulamAhmadofQadian(Punjab,India)whoclaimtobeaprophet.AsthisbookletisbeingwrittentothrowlightupontheMuslimbeliefof"SealoftheProphethood",itis

essentialtogiveahistoricalbackgroundtothebirthofAhmadism.ThefamousMuslimthinker,Dr.Iqbal,wroteabooklet"IslamandAhmadism"andIproposetoquotein

thischaptersomeoftheparagraphsfromhislearneddiscourse.He writes: "The simple faith (of Islam) is based on two propositions that God is One and that

Muhammadisthelastinthelineofthoseholymenwhohaveappearedfromtimetotimeinallagestoguidemankindtotherightwayofliving".Thequestionofheresy,whichneedstheverdictwhethertheauthorofitiswithinorwithoutthefold,

canarise, inthecaseofareligioussocietyfoundedonsuchsimplepropositions,onlywhenthehereticrejectsbothoreitherofthesepropositions.SuchheresymustbeandhasbeenrareinthehistoryofIslamwhich,whilejealousofitsfrontiers,permitsfreedomofinterpretationwithinthesefrontiers.AndsincethephenomenonofthekindofheresywhichaffectstheboundariesofIslamhasbeenrarein

the history of Islam, the feeling of the averageMuslim is naturally intensewhen a revolt of this kindarises.ThatiswhythefeelingofMuslimPersiawassointenseagainsttheBahais.ThatiswhythefeelingofIndianMuslimsissointenseagainsttheQadianis."The question ofwhatmay be calledmajor heresy arises onlywhen the teaching of a thinker or a

reformer affects the frontiersof the faithof Islam.Unfortunately thisquestiondoes arise in connectionwiththeteachingsofQadianism"."Theologically the doctrine is that. The organization called "Islam" is perfect and eternal. No

revelation the denial of which entails heresy is possible after Muhammad. He who claims such arevelation,isatraitortoIslam.SincetheQadianisbelievethefounderoftheAhmadiyyamovementtobethebearerofsucharevelationtheydeclarethattheentireworldofIslamisinfidel.Thefounder'sownargument is that thespiritualityof theHolyProphetof Islammustberegardedas

imperfectifitisnotcreativeofanotherProphet.HeclaimshisownProphethoodtobeanevidenceoftheProphet-rearingpoweroftheHolyProphetofIslam.ButifyoufurtheraskhimwhetherthespiritualityofMuhammadiscapableofrearingmoreProphets,thanone,hisansweris"No".Thisvirtuallyamountstosaying"MuhammadisnotthelastProphet:Iamthelast".

Thisis,infact,theacceptedbeliefoftheQadianis.Reallyitisastoundingthatwhilethedistinctionof

beingthelastoftheProphetsisdeniedtotheProphetofIslam,itisclaimedfortheprophetofQadian.MirzaGhulamAhmadhimselfsays:"Iamthelastpathofallthedivinepaths,andthelastlightofallthedivinelights".Elaboratingonthistheme,the"Tash-hizul-azhan"[1]writes:"Inthis'Ummah'therecanbeonlyoneprophet,thatis,thepromisedMessiah;andcertainlynobodyelsecancome.The same magazine[2] says: "After the Holy Prophet of Islam only one prophet can come. It will

disturbmanypoliciesandkingdomofGodifmanyprophetscame.Thesamepaper[3]declared:'Thusitisprovedthattherecannotbemorethanoneprophet.(TheHoly

Prophet of Islam) has said "LaNabiyvaBa'adi".There is no prophet after me; and thus has clearlydeclared that in thisUmmahnoprophetormessengerofGodcancomeafterhim,except thepromisedMessiah".Thisdistorted logic isbeyondhumancomprehension.TheQadianiwriteraccepts theHolyProphet's

declaration that there would be no prophet after him: and then (instead of refuting the claim of anypretender of prophethood after Muhammad) adds a tail to the interpretation: "except Mirza GhulamAhmad.""Tash-hizulAzhan"wasamagazineforAhmadichildrenandthatisthebeliefwhichistaughttotheir

childrenfromchildhood.Thus,theQadianishavetransferredthefinalityofprophethoodfromtheProphetofIslamtoProphets:

for the Qadianis, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad is the last of the prophets. But there is one "Khatam un-Nabiyyin" (theLastof theProphets) inboth religions, in thesenseof the finalityof theprophethood. Ithink this point of agreement should be enough to end the controversy about the meaning of thephrase"Khatamun-Nabiyyin".Now,toreverttoDr.Iqbal'swriting:"Far from understanding the cultural value of the Islamic idea of finality in the history ofmankind

generallyandofAsiaespeciallyhe(i.e.,MirzaGhulamAhmad)thinksthatthefinalityinthesensethatnofollower of Muhammad can ever reach the status of prophethood is a mark of imperfection inMuhammad'sProphethood.As I read thepsychologyofhismindhe in the interestofhisownclaim toprophethood, avails himself of whathe describes as the creative spirituality of the Holy Prophet ofIslamandatthesametimedeprivestheHolyProphetofhis"finality"bylimitingthecreatingcapacityofhis spirituality to the rearingofonlyoneprophet, i.e., the founderof theAhmadiyyamovement. In thisway does the new prophet quietly steal away the "finality" of one who he claims to be his spiritualprogenitor".Heclaimstobe'buruz'[4]oftheHolyProphetofIslaminstitutingtherebythat,beingaburuzofhim,

hisfinality isvirtuallythe"finality"ofMuhammad,andthat thisviewof thematter, therefore,doesnotviolate the finality of theHoly Prophet. In identifying the two finalities, his own and that of theHolyProphet,heconvenientlylosessightofthetemporalmeaningoftheideaofFinality.Itis,howeverobviousthattheword'buruz'inthesenseevenofcompletedlikeness,cannothelphim

at all, for theburuzmust always remain the other of its original. Only in the sense of reincarnation

aburuzbecomesidenticalwiththeoriginal.Thusifwetaketheword 'buruz'tomean 'like inspiritualqualities'theargumentremainsineffective.If,ontheotherhand,wetakeittomeanreincarnationoftheoriginal,intheAryansenseoftheword,theargumentbecomesplausiblebutitsauthorturnsouttobeonlyaMagicianindisguise."

Notes:[1]Vol.9,No.3,March,1914.

[2]Vol.12,No.8,August,1917.[3]Vol.9,No3,March,1914.[4]Buruz:Appearance.

3ChapterHistoricBackgroundofAhmadism

"IdaresaythefounderoftheAhmadiyyamovementdidhearavoice;butwhetherthisvoicecamefromtheGodofLifeandPoweroraroseoutofthespiritualimpoverishmentofthepeoplemustdependuponthenatureofmovementwhichithasithascreatedandthekindofthoughtandemotionwhichithasgiventhosewhohavelistenedtoit."ThisquotationcomesfromDr.Iqbalwhohasclearlyunmasked"therealcontentofAhmadisminthe

lightofthehistoryofMuslimtheologicalthoughtinIndiaatleastfromtheyear1799."Hesays:"Theyear1799isextremelyimportantinthehistoryoftheworldofIslam.Inthisyearfell

Tippu;andhisfallmeanttheextinguishmentofMuslimhopesforpoliticalprestigeinIndia.InthesameyearwasfoughtthebattleofNavarneowhichsawthedestructionoftheTurkishfleet".Thus in the 1799 the political decay of Islam in Asia reached its climax. But just as out of the

humiliationofGermanyonthedayofJenaarosetheModernGermanNation,itmaybesaidwithequaltruththatoutofthepoliticalhumiliationofIslamintheyear1799arosemodernIslamandherproblems.Iwanttodrawthereader'sattentiontosomeofthequestionswhichhaveariseninMuslimIndiasincethefallofTippuandthedevelopmentofEuropeanImperialisminAsia.DoestheideaofCaliphateinIslamembodyareligiousinstitution?HowaretheIndianMuslimsandfor

thematterofthatallMuslimsoutsidetheTurkishEmpirerelatedtotheTurkishCaliphate?IsIndia"Dar-ul-Harb"[5]or"Dar-ul-Islam"[6]?Whatistherealmeaningoftheexpression"Fromamongstyou"IntheQur’anicverse"ObeyGod,obey

theProphet and themasters of the affair, i.e., rulers, from amongst you?"What is the character of thetraditionsof theProphet foretelling theadventof ImamMehdi?Thesequestionsandsomeotherwhicharose subsequently were for Muslims only. European Imperialism, however, which was then rapidlypenetratingtheworldofIslam,wasalsointimatelyinterestedinthem."Mr. M. O. Abbasi of Dar-es-Salaam (Tanzania) writes in "The Mirror" (published by Makki

publications):"Inordertoreachthebottomofthisreality,itisnecessaryasapreliminary,tounderstandthe background in which it became possible forMirza Ghulam Ahmad to advance his claims and toachievesuccessinhismission.""TheMuslimsofIndia,afterleadingalifeofgovernance,gloryandhonorforanapproximateperiodof

700years,werebesetwithavarietyofcalamitiesandcatastrophesowingtotheirindifference,inactionandignorance:(1)Internaldissensionsanddisunionledtointernecinequarrelsandtheybecameextremelydebilitated.

(2)Duetotheaggressionoftheirage-oldenemies,theinfidels,MuslimBloodflowedinprofusionat

thehandsoftheMarahtasandtheSikhs.(3)EuropeanImperialiststookundueadvantageofthisandextendedtheirImperialist tentacles.They

knewthattheMuslimswereendowedwithaspiritofrevenge,sacrificeandmartyrdomandpossessedofapassionfordefenseoftheirreligioninthefullestdegree.Itwasnecessarytherefore,to:(1)Breaktheircollectivestrengthanddisorganizethem.(2)Crushtheirsenseofself-respectandtheirspiritofsacrificeandmartyrdom.(3)CultivateaspiritofdevotiontoandexpectationsfromtheImperialistPowers.(4)Entirelyexpungethespiritof'Jihad',thatisreadinesstosacrificeandgambleawaytheirlivesin

defenseofreligionandcommunity."Inviewoftheabove,thechessplayersofWesternImperialismpreparedafewpeculiarpawnsforthe

politicalboard, thechoicestofwhichwere those that entered the fieldunder thecloakof religionandexponentsofitstechnicalities."MirzaGhulamAhmadQadianiwassuchapawnwhoserved the interestsof theBritish Imperialism

usingthereligionashistool.Aswill be seen afterwards, his tenetswere "ObeyAllah andObey theBritish Imperialism."Those

whowantafulleraccountshouldreadthequotationsgivenbyProfessorIlyasBerniin"QadianiMazhabKaIlmiMuhasiba"[7].Hereafewquotationsaregivenjustasasample.MirzaGhulamAhmadQadianiwrites:"InshortmyfatherwasalwayshopefulonmerciesoftheBritishGovernmentandcontinuedtorender

services as the need arose, so much so, that the English Government honored him with notes ofappreciationandrememberedhimspeciallywiththeirgiftsandbountiesandsympathizedwithhimandfavoredhimandconsideredhimamongtheirwell-wishersandsinceresupporters.Whenmyfatherexpired,mybrothersucceededhiminthesequalities,andhisnamewasMirzaGhulam

Qadir,andthefavorsoftheEnglishGovernmentwerelikewiseshoweredonhimjustasonmyfather.Afewyearsafterthedeathofmyfather,mybrotheralsoexpiredandafterthedeceaseoftheseboth,I

steppedintotheirshoesandfollowedthemintheircharacteristics."But Iwasnotpossessedofwealthorproperty.Therefore, I rose to serve theGovernmentwithmy

handandmypen,andGodwasassistingme,andImadeacompactwithGodfromthattimethatIwouldneverwriteasinglevolumewhichdoesnotcontainadescriptionoftheobligationsoftheQueenEmpressofIndia.Nay,thevolumemustcontainanarrationofalltheobligationsdonetotheMuslimsofIndiaforwhichtheMuslimsofIndiahavetobegratefultoher."[8]"For the achievement of this object ofmine Imade it a practice to repeat in everywriting ofmine

(Vide, forexample,BaraheeneAhmadiyya,ShahadatulQur'an,SurmaeChashmeArya,AinaeKamalate

Islam,HamamatulBushra,NurulHaq,etc.)that'Jihad'againstthisGovernmentisnotatallpermissibletotheMuslims."Statement worthy of the attention of the Government, which was published for the perusal of the

Empress of India (i.e., Queen Victoria), His Excellency the Governor-General of India andHisExcellencyLieutenantGovernorofPunjabandotherHighOfficialsfromthehumbleGhulamAhmadofQadian;dated10thDecember,1894;recordedin'Tabligh-e-Risalat'[9]."Thesecondmattertobesubmittedisthis,thatfromtheearliestagetillnow-andIamsixtyyearsold

now-IhavebeenengagedwithmytongueandpeninthisimportanttaskthatIshouldturntheheartsoftheMuslims of India towards true love; well-wishes and sympathy towards the English Government andremovefromthemindsofsomesenselessonesallideasof'Jihad',etc.,whichstopthemfromsincerityofheartandhonestyofrelationsandInoticethatatremendousimpressionhasbeenmadeonthemindsoftheMuslimsowingtomywritingsandhundredsofthousandsofpersonshavebeenconvertedtoachangedattitude."[10]"ThemajorportionofmylifehaspassedinsupportofthisEnglishGovernmentandIhavewrittenso

manyhooksonthe'Prohibitionof'Jihad'and'ObediencetotheEnglish'andhaveissuedpamphletsthat,iftheyweregatheredtogether,nolessthanfiftycupboardscouldbefilledwiththem.IhavesentsuchbookstoallthecountrieslikeArabia,Egypt,Syria,KabulandTurkey."IhavealwaysendeavoredthatMuslimsshouldbecometruewell-wishersofthisGovernmentandthe

baseless traditions aboutBloodyMehdi andBloodyMessiahwhich animate and inflame the hearts offoolsmaybeobliteratedfromtheirminds."[11]TheBritishGovernmentreciprocatedthisserviceasMirzaMahmudAhmad,thesonandsecondCaliph

ofMirzaGhulam'Ahmad,writes:"The obligations of the British Government on us are great and we are passing our lives in great

comfort and tranquility and accomplishing our object and if we are to go to other countriesfor'Tabligh'(propaganda),there,too,theBritishGovernmentrendersusassistance."[12]HowmuchMirzaQadianiservedtheBritishImperialism,isclearfromthefollowingdeclaration:"Thus,myreligionwhichIdorepeatedlydeclareisonlythis, thatIslamhastwoparts:One,toobey

God,secondly,toobeythisGovernment.Thus, if we raise our head against the British Government, we are raising our head against Islam,

againstGodandagainsttheHolyProphet."[13]ItwouldbeofinteresttoseewhatwastheirattitudetowardsthefreedommovementsofIndia.There

were two organizations endeavoring to get independence: All India National Congress and All IndiaMuslimLeague.QadianisattitudetowardstheCongresscanbeseenfromthelectureofMirzaMahmudAhmad(thesonandsecondcaliphofthefounderofAhmadism),which·waspublishedinthenewspaper'Al-Fazl'[14]dated29thJanuary,1935.Hesaid:"AfterthatwhenevertheCongresslaunchedanydisturbance,wehelpedthe(British)Government.At

thetimeofthelastmovementofGandhi,wespentFiftyThousandRupeesontractsandadvertisementandwe can prove it by records.Ourmen gave hundreds of lectures against thatmovement.We gave bestadviceswhichwereappreciatedbytheHighOfficials."

AboutMuslimLeague:Thesaid'Al-Fazl'[15]wrote:'WerememberthattherealReformeroftheMusIimsandtheTrueGuideoftheworld.ProphetMasih-

e-Mawud and Mehdi Akheruzzaman (i.e., Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Qadiani) when Muslim League wasmentionedbeforehim,heexpressedhisdispleasureatit.Cansuchathing,whichtheChosenofGodandOrdaineddislikes,bebeneficialandblissfulfortheMuslims?No,Never."MirzaGhulamAhmadQadianiwent so far as to turn himself into a spy of theBritishGovernment

againstnationalists.Hewrotein'GovernmentKiTawajjuhKeLaiq'(recordedinTabligh-e-Risalat):"Whereas it is expedient that for the well-wishers of the English Government, the names of such

Muslimsalsoshouldberecorded inchartswho lookupon theBritishIndiaasDar-ul-Harb.Therefore,thischarthasbeendrawnupwith thesingleobjectofpreserving therein thenamesof thoseungratefulpeoplewhoareendowedwithsuchrebelliousnature.""Therefore,forthepoliticalsympathyofourbenevolentGovernment,wehavethoughtitproperonthis

blessed occasion that we should record as far as possible the names of such wicked people whoseseditiousintentionscanbeprovedbytheirbeliefs.ButwerespectfullyrequesttheGovernmentthatsuchChartswillremainwithusasaStatesecretinanyoftheGovernmentofficesuntilsuchtime."We should thank Allah that East Africa was not populated with persons of such servile mentality.

Otherwise, thesecountrieswouldhaveremainedunderBritishyokeforever,and theUnionJackwouldhavebeenflyingovertheStateHousesofDar-es-Salaam,NairobiandEntebbeevennow.Dr.Iqbalsays:To the intensely religiousmassesof Islamonlyone thing canmake a conclusive appeal, and that is

Divine Authority. For an effective eradication of orthodox beliefs it was found necessary to find arevelationalbasisforapoliticallysuitableorientationoftheologicaldoctrinesinvolvedinthequestionsmentionedabove.This revelational basis provided by Ahmadism. And the Ahmadis themselves claim this to be the

greatest service renderedby themtoBritish imperialism.Thepropheticclaim to revelationalbasis fortheological view of a political significance amounts to declaring that those who do not accept theclaimant'sviewsareinfidelsofthefirstwateranddestinedfortheflamesofHell.Inprimitivecountriesitisnotlogicbutauthoritythatappeals.Givenasufficientamountofignorance

andcredulitywhichstrangelyenoughsometimesco-existswithgoodintelligenceandapersonsufficientlyaudacioustodeclarehimselfrecipientofDivinerevelationwhosedenialwouldentaileternaldamnation,itiseasyinasubjectMuslimcountry,toinventapoliticaltheologyandtobuildacommunitywhosecreedispoliticalservility.AndinthePunjabevenanill-wovennetofvaguetheologicalexpressionscaneasilycapturetheinnocentpeasantwhohasbeenforcenturiesexposedtoallkindsofexploitation.AsIhaveexplainedabovethefunctionofAhmadismin thehistoryofMuslimreligious thought is to

furnisharevelationbasisforIndia'spresentpoliticalsubjugation.(i.e.,underBritishimperialism).To show how the Qadiani missionaries tried to twist the subject, I quote here from 'A Lively

Discussion' published by the 'Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission Of Tanganyika' in 1967. Their ChiefMissionary,SheikhMuhammadMunawwarH.A.,tryingtorefutethisblamehaswritten:

"Muslim scholars over the ages have been praising their governments for one reason or the otherwithout being criticized by their fellow-Muslims. Here in Tanzania the Shia Alim, Sayyid Sa’eedAkhtarRizvi,wroteanarticleinTheStandarddatedAugust25,1967toshowthattheArushaDeclarationcontainedcertainaspectsthatwentparallelwiththeIslamicteaching.Nofingerwaspointedatthewriterof thearticle tocondemnhis"collusion"with theun-Islamicgovernment.Norwashegiven the titleofa"toady"ora"Quisling".Heissonaivethathedoesnotseethedifferencebetweenshowingthatanideologyofafreenational

governmentcontained certain aspects thatwent parallelwith the IslamicTeachings" and supporting thetyrannicalruleofanimperialpowerandforbiddingthewretched'subjects'toriseagainstitandmakingthatsupportanintegralpartofthereligion,nextinimportancetothebeliefintheunityofGod!Ifhewantstokeephiseyesshuttosuchcleardifferences,nobodyonearthhasanypowertomakehimsee.Dr.Iqbalfurtherwrites:"AsimilardramahadalreadybeenactedinPersia;butitdidnotlead,andcouldnothaveled,tothe

religiousandpoliticalissueswhichAhmadismhascreatedforIslaminIndia.RussiaofferedtolerancetoBabism and allowed the Babis to open their first missionary center in Ishaqabad.England showedAhmadis the same tolerance in allowing them to open their first missionary center in Woking.Whether Russia and England showed this tolerance on the ground of imperial expediency or purebroadmindednessisdifficultforustodecide.ThismuchisabsolutelyclearthatthistolerancehascreateddifficultproblemsforIslaminAsia."Then Dr. Iqbal winds up his discourse with declaring the Ahmadi movement as being a "strange

mixtureofSemiticandAryanmysticismwithwhomspiritualrevivalconsistsnotinthepurificationoftheindividual's inner life according to the principles of the old Islamic Sufi'ism, but in satisfying theexpectantattitudeofthemassesbyprovidinga'promised'Messiah.ThefunctionofthispromisedMessiahisnottoextricatetheindividualfromanenervatingpresentbut

tomakehimslavishlysurrenderhisego to itsdictates.This reactioncarrieswithin itselfaverysubtlecontradiction.ItretainsthedisciplineofIslam,butdestroysthewillwhichthatdisciplinewasintendedtofortify."Notes:[5]Dar-ul-Harb-Aliencountry.[6]Dar-ul-Islam-Muslimcountry.[7]Part2,Chapters11to14.[8]"NurulHaq",Part1,Page28,writtenbyMirzaGhulamAhmadofQadian.[9]Vol.3,p.193,editedbyMirQasimAliQadiani[10]Petition toNawwabLieutenantGovernor -Mayhis fortunebeeternal - fromthehumbleMirza

Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian; dated' 24th February, 1898; recorded in 'Tabligh-e-Risalat' Vol. 7, p. 10,editedbyMirQasimAliQadiani[11]Tiryaqul-Qulub,p.15,byMirzaGhulamAhmadQadiani[12]Barakat-e-Khillifat,p.65.[13]GovernmentKiTawajjuhKeLaiq;byMirzaGhulamAhmadQadiani.[14]Vol.22,No.91.[15]Vol.3,No.78.dated8thJanuary,1916.

4ChapterCommentary(Tafseer)ofKhatamun-Nabiyyin

"Behold!thoudidstsaytoonewhohadreceivedthegraceofGodandthyfavor:"Retainthou(inwedlock)thywifeandfearGod".ButthoudidsthideinthyheartthatwhichGodwasabouttomakemanifest:thoudidstfearthepeoplebutitismorefittingthatthoushouldstfearGod."ThenwhenZaidhaddissolved(hismarriage)withherwiththenecessary(formality),Wejoined

her inmarriage to thee: inorder that in future theremaybenodifficulty to thebelievers in (thematter of)marriagewith thewives of their adopted sons,when the latter had dissolvedwith thenecessary(formality-theirmarriage)withthem.AndGod'scommandmustbefulfilled."TherecanbenodifficultytotheProphetinwhatGodhadindicatedtohimasaduty.Itwasthe

way of God amongst those of old that have passed away. And the command of God is a decreedetermined."(It is thepracticeof) thosewhopreach themessageofGodandfearHim,and fearnone but

God. And enough is God to call (men) to account.Mohammed is not the father of any of yourmen,but(he)isTheApostleofGodandthelastoftheProphets.AndGodhasfullknowledgeofallthings".(Qur'an,33:37-40)This(verse)isrevealedinthefifthRukuofChapterAl-Ahzab.Inthis'Ruku'Allahhasrepliedtothe

objectionsof theunbelieversand thehypocrites,whowere ridiculingandslandering theHolyProphetbecauseofhismarriagewithUmmul-MumineenZainabbintJahash.TheysaidthatZainabwaspreviouslymarriedtoZaidbinHaritha,whopriortoIslam,wasadoptedby

theHolyProphet as his son.The detractors said, as suchZainabwas the daughter-in-lawof theHolyProphet;andwhentheHolyProphetmarriedher,afterherdivorcefromZaid,hemarriedhisdaughter-in-lawwhichisharamevenintheShari’ahbroughtbyMuhammad(S).Replyingtothat,AllahsaidinverseNo.37thatthatmarriagewasenteredintobytheorderofAllah,

and performed by Allah so that the Muslims should be made free to marry the wives of theiradoptedsonsifthesaidso-calledsonsweretodivorcethem.VersesNos.38and39declare thatnopowercandetractaprophet fromdoingwhathewas toldby

Allahtodo.AnditisnotthejoboftheprophettobeafraidofthemassesinperformingthecommandsofAllah.TheyfearonlyAllah,andnooneelse.AnditisthewayofAllahfromeverthatmakestheprophetsto convey the message of Allah without any hesitation, without taking anything else into theirconsideration.After thatcomes thisverse;and itcutsat therootsofallsuchobjectionsof theenemiesof theHoly

Prophet(S).TheirfirstobjectionwasthattheHolyProphethadmarriedhisdaughter-in-law,whichisforbiddenin

Islam.Replyingtothat,Allahsaid:"Muhammadwasnotfatherofanyonefromamongyourmenfolk".ItremindstheunbelieversthatZaidbinHaritha(whosedivorceeZainabwas),wasnotthesonofthe

HolyProphet,andassuchZainabwasnotthedaughter-in-lawoftheHolyProphet.MarryingthedivorceeofZaid thereforecannotbesaid tobe forbiddenbyany logic.EvenhisenemiesknewthatMuhammadwasnotthefatherofZaid.Secondobjection:AgreedthatZaidwasnotthesonoftheHolyProphetbybirth;butwashenothisson

byadoption?AgreedthatitwasnotillegalforMuhammadtomarrythedivorcedwifeofZaid.Butwasthat marriage necessary? Agreed that that marriage was legal and lawful. But what was the need ofenteringintosuchamarriagewhichcouldmakeMuhammadAl-Mustafa(S)thetargetofridicule?Replyingtothat,Allahsaid:"ButMuhammadisthemessengerof'Allah".Thesignificanceofthisansweristhat,beingaMessengerofAllah,itwasessentialforhimtoremove

allsuperstitionsandprejudicesandallbaselesstabooswhichwerechokingthelifeoutfromthesociety.Itwasessentialforhimtoactinsuchawaythatnobodycouldremaininanydoubtaboutthelegalityofsuchmarriagesandaboutthefactthatanadoptedsonwasnotasonatall.Thencomesthephrase:"'TheLastofTheProphets".Thesignificanceofthisphraseisthat,aftertheHolyProphetofIslamnotevenaprophetistocome(let

aloneaRasulwhose job is tobringanewShari'ah).Noprophetwas tocomeafterhim,so that ifanydeficiencywereleftunreformedinthelegalorsocialsystemofthesocietyorreligion,thelaterprophetwouldremovethatdefect.MuhammadAl-Mustafa (S)was the lastMessenger; hewas the Last Prophet.And therefore itwas

essentialforhimtoeffectreformstoallthebadpracticesofthesociety,torefuteallsuperstitionsduringhislifetime,becausetherewasnoNabitocomeafterhim,letaloneaRasul.Thencomesthesentence:"AndAllahhasthefullknowledgeofeverything".Whythisassertion?AllahwantstoconveytheideathatAllahknowsthatifMuhammadAl-Mustafa(S)

leftthisworldwithoutreformingthebadelementsofthesociety,noprophetwastocomeafterhimtofillthatgap;andifMuhammadAl-Mustafa(S)withoutgivingeffecttoallthereformsofthesociety,nosuchpersonwasevertoappearwhowouldhavesuchrespect,prestigeandreverenceamongthemassesthathiseverywordandhiseveryactionwouldhavetheforceofLaw.

ItwastheprerogativeoftheHolyProphetofIslam;andnobodyhad,orwastohave,suchrespectthatifhedidonethingitbecamelawfulforuptoQiyamah(Resurrectionday),andifheforbadeonething,thatbecameunlawfulforuptoQiyamah.ThisprestigewasbestowedbyAllahupontheLastProphetandAllahknewthatifhedidnotreformsuchbadcustomsnootherpersonwouldeverbeabletogiveeffecttosuchreformsaftertheHolyProphet.Lookingat this verse in this context, it is crystal clear thatwecannot accept anewmeaning to this

verse inventedby ahomemade claimantof prophethood fromQadian, that'Khatam un-Nabiyyin'means'Sealof theprophets"which in its turnmeans that theprophetscomingafter theHolyProphetof IslamwouldbecomeprophetbythesealofthesealoftheHolyProphet,andbyhisconfirmation.Ifweweretoentertainsuchidea,alltheforceandlogicwillbewipedout.Notonlythatitwillloseitslogic-itwillbe tantamount torefutingwhateverwasputforwardin theprecedingphrasesandsentences.Thisversewillbecomeaself-contradictorystatement.How?WehaveseenthatAllahwantedtoreplytotheobjectionsoftheenemiesoftheHolyProphet,bysaying

that:1.TheHolyProphetmarriedUmmul-MumineenZainabbintJahashbyorderofAllah.2.Theaimofthatmarriagewastoremovetheprejudiceandsuperstitionandtraditionaltabooofthe

paganArabsandmanyothernationswhotreatedtheadoptedsonsastherealsons.3. Itwas necessary, nay essential forMuhammadAl-Mustafa (S) tomarry the divorcedwife of his

adopted son, so thatMuslims should not feel shy of suchmarriages; they should be persuaded by thepracticalexampleoftheHolyProphetthatsuchmarriagesareperfectlylawful,becauseanadoptedsonisnosonatall.4.Toshowtheurgencyofthosemarriages,AllahsaysthatMuhammadAl-Mustafa(S)istheMessenger

ofAllahanditwasImperativeforhimtogiveeffecttothatmarriagetoprovideapracticalexample.AndthentheQadianissaythat,Allahsays:"ManyProphetswillcomeafterMuhammadAl-Mustafa(S)

whowillbemadeProphetsbytheconfirmationfromhim,andwhowillbeinapositiontogiveeffecttowhateverreformswereneededintheirtimes”.Andwhatwouldhavebeentheeffectofsuchdeclaration?AssoonastheenemiesoftheHolyProphet(S)weretolearnthistheywouldeasilyhavesaid:"Then

whatwastheurgencythatMuhammadhimselfshouldperformthismarriage;toshowtheMuslimslegalityofsuchmarriages?Asotherprophetsweretocomeafterhim,anyotherprophetcouldhavelegalizedsuchmarriagesbyshowinghisownexample!TherewasnoneedonthepartofMuhammadAl-Mustafa(S)toperformthatmarriage".Thus,thewholeforceoftheargumentsshowingtheurgentneedofthatmarriageisnegated,wipedout

andcancelled.Notonlythis:aweaponisgiveninthehandsoftheenemiesoftheHolyProphettoattachhimandridiculehimsayingthat"hemarriedthedivorcedwifeofhissonwhiletherewasnourgencyforhim todoso.Afterall,otherprophetscomingafterhimcouldhaveshown to theworld that therewas

nothingwronginsuchmarriages”.It isclearfromthisexplanation,thatif theinterpretationoftheQadianisisacceptedthennotonlythe

logicofthereplieswillbelost,buttheversewillbecomeamassofcontradictorystatements.Allahsays:"IfthisQur'anwouldhavebeenfromotherthanAllah,thentheywouldhavefoundinitmuch

contradiction."(Qur'an4:82)Ifaninterpretationcreatescontradictionsinaverse,itmeansthatthatinterpretationisnotfromAllah;

itisfromotherthanAllah-itisfromSatan.Another interpretation d the Qadianis is that 'Khatam un-Nabiyyin' means 'Afzal un-Nabiyyin' i.e.,

Muhammadisthesuperiortoallprophets.Inotherwords,otherprophetswouldcomeafterhim,butheisthegreatest,mostrespectedandmosthonoredofallprophets.Apart from the fact, that this interpretation shows thatQadianis themselves are not samewhat new

meaningtheyshouldgivetothephrase'Khatamun-Nabiyyin',thesamedefectofcontradictionisinherentinthatinterpretationalso.How?Theunbelieversandthehypocritescouldhaveretortedthatwhenotherprophetsweretocome

afterMuhammadAl-Mustafa (S), though inferior to him, but prophet ofAllah all the same, they couldhavecarriedout such reformand that therewasnoneedorurgency forMuhammadAl-Mustafa (S) toperformthatmarriageandputhimselfinridiculeunnecessarily.

5Chapter'Khatamun-Nabiyyin'inTradition

OneoftenhearsQadianimissionariesasserting that thephrase"Khatamun-Nabiyyin"mhasnotbeeninterpretedas"theLastProphet"bytheHolyProphethimself.ThefactisthattheHolyProphethimselfhasexplainedthisphraseinthesewords.

TheFirstTradition

AndIamKhatamun-Nabiyyin,thereisnoprophetaftermyself.TheTradition(Hadith)isthis:"ThaubansaidthattheHolyProphetsaid:(inalongtraditionpartofwhichisthat)"therewillappear

in my Ummah thirty imposters each of them will claim to be a prophet while I amKhatam un-Nabiyyin,thereisnoprophetafterme.ThistraditionisfoundinAbuDawoodKitabul-Fitan;andanothertraditionofthesamemeaningfrom

AbuHurairainKitab-ul-Malahim.BothtraditionsarenarratedbyTirmizialso.

TheSecondTradition

TheHolyProphetsaid:"Thesimileofmyselfandtheotherprophetsisthesimileofawell-builtpalaceinwhich theplaceofabrickwas leftvacant; thesight-seerswereroamingaround thatpalaceexpressingtheirwonderon its fineconstructionexcept theplaceof thatmissingbrick.Thus, IamthatbrickandIclosed thegapof thatplace.Theconstructionwascompletedbymeand themessengersofGod:werecompletedbyme.So,IamthatbrickandIam'Khatamun-Nabiyyin'(thelastProphet)."ThistraditionhasbeenrecordedinSaheehBukhari(Kitab-ul’Manaqib;BabKhatamun-Nabiyyin)with

minorvariationsinwordings.ItmeansthataftertheadventoftheHolyProphetofIslam,thebuildingofProphethoodwascomplete;

thereisnovacantplaceleft,sothatanotherNabibeexpectedtocomeandfillthatplace.Thereare four traditions like thisone inSaheehMuslim (Kitabul-Fadhail,BabKhatamunNabiyyin)

andthelastofthosetraditionshastheseextrawords:"ThenIcameandIclosedtheprophets".ThesametraditioninthesamewordsisfoundinSaheehTirmizi(Kitab-ul-Manaqib,BabFazlinNabi;

andKitab-ul-Adab,Bab-ul-Amthal).InMusnadofAbuDawoodTayalisithistraditionhasbeennarratedbyJabirbinAbdullahAnsari,and

itslastwordsare:"TheProphetshavebeenclosedbyme".Andthese traditionswithminordifferences in thewordingsarefoundinMusnadAhmadbinHanbal

narratedbyUbaibinKa'ab,AbuSaidKhudriandAbuHuraira.

TheThirdTradition

TheHoly Prophet said: "Qiyamahwill not come till many groups frommyUmmah follow the idol-worshippers(commitcapitalsinsliketheidolworshippers)andtilltheyworshipidols;andsurelytherewillbe inmyUmmah30 impostors, every one of themwill suppose himself to be a prophet;while Iam'Khatamun-Nabiyyin'(lastprophet),thereisnoprophetafterme."TirmizihasnarratedthesetraditionsfromThaubanandAbuHuraira,andthesecondtraditionsays:"TilltherewillbeaboutthirtyimposterseachofthemwouldclaimtobeamessengerofAllah".

Qadianis'Excuse

A.Qadianimissionarywrote tome about this tradition but this prophecywas already fulfilled beforeMirzaGhulamAhmadQadiani.Thebook'Al-Bakara'p.15.saysthat"IfwecountallthosewhoclaimedProphethoodaftertheHolyProphetuptoourtime,thisnumberhasbeencompleted.Anditisknowntoallthosewhoknowthehistory."Thewriterofthisbookdiedin828Hijri.Uptothisyear(i.e.,1390)562yearshavepassedsincethatwriting.Doyouthinkthatwriterwaswrong'?"I wrote to him: "Well, what book is this 'Al Bakara''? Who was its author? This clutching to

straws shows how poor your arguments are. Of course, he was wrong, because centuries after him,NawwabSiddiqHassanKhanofBhopal(whodiedin1889A.D.),wroteinhisbook'Hujajul-Karamah'.The prophecy of theHoly Prophet - that therewould come 30Dajjals in thisUmmah - is proving

correct;and27ofthoseDajjalshavealreadyappeared."(page540).Rememberthatthiscountof27wasbeforetheclaimofMirzaGhulamAhmadQadiani.Sometimes,somewritershavecommittedthemistakeofcountingeveryonewhoclaimedprophethood

aftertheHolyProphetasoneofthose30promisedDajjals.Butitiswrong,becauseinthiswaywewillfindhundredsofDajjalandthenumber30wouldbeexceededbyfar.That iswhy Imam IbnHajar Asqalani has written in 'Fat'h-ul·Bari Sharh Saheeh Bukhari (Vol. VI,

p455): "It is not themeaning of this tradition to count every personwho claimed to be prophet afterMuhammad(S);becausethereweresomanyofthemthattheycannotbecounted;asmostlysuchclaimantssuffer from insanity and·'Sawda.".[16] But this traditionmeans only thosewho get some strength i.e.,whosereligionbecomesacceptedandwhogetssufficientfollowers".Therefore,ifweaddonemoreafter1889,thetotalcomesto28.Therearestilltwomoretocome.ThenwecometothepublicdeclarationofAmir-ul-Mu'mineenImamAliibnAbiTalib(a.s.),whichis

given in Al-Iqd-ul-Farid, Vol. IV, p. 75. In this lecture, Imam Ali (a.s.) said about the Holy ProphetMuhammad(S):UntilAllahhonoredhim(Muhammad)byRuh-ul-Amin(i.e.,AngelGabriel)andtheBrightLight(i.e.,

Qur'an or Islam) and completed with him the prophets and completed with him the number of theMessengers."Seehowtheword"completedwithhimtheprophets"hasbeenexplainedby"completedwithhimthe

numberoftheMessengers".ItshouldbenotedthatinthewholeQur'an,theword'Khatam'hasbeenusedonlyonceandthat is in

this phrase.Also, this phrase; "Khatam un-Nabiyyin"was never used inArabic language before thisverse.ItwasanewphrasewhichwasusedforthefirsttimeintheQur'aninthisverse.And, therefore the only correctway of knowing its real significance is to see how this phrasewas

interpretedbytheHolyProphetofIslam,becauseitwasrevealedtohim,andassuchnootherpersoncanknowitsmeaningbetterthanhe.Andhehimselfinterpretedinthesewords:

"AndIamKhatamun-Nabiyyinthereisnoprophetafterme".ThesayingoftheHolyProphet(S)isaproofinitself.Butwhenthatsayingistheinterpretationofthe

wording of the Holy Qur'an, then it becomes double proof. The question is: Who has more right tounderstand Qur'an and to interpret the Qur’an thanMuhammad Al-Mustafa (S)?Who can explain themeaningofKhatamun-NabiyyinbetterthanMuhammad(S)?AndwhohasanyrightthatweshouldlistentohisclaimsleavingthewordingoftheHolyProphetof

Islamaside,theHolyProphetonwhomtheQur'an'wasrevealed?MirzaGhulamAhmadQadianihimselfhas said: "Nobody can explain the meaning of Ilham (Revelation) better than the person on whomthatIlhamwas,sent".[17]Notes:[16]Sawda:inancientandmedievalphysiology,fourchieffluidsofthebody(whicharecalledfour

humours or four cardinals) were blood, phlegm, choler and melancholia or black choler. These fourcardinals by their relative proportions were supposed to determine a person’s physical and mentalqualities.Melancholiaorblackcholer iscalled inArabicSawda, litterallyblacksubstance.ExcessofSawda was supposed to cause mental ailments like melancholia (insanity and mania) besides manyailmentsofbloodetc…andgradually,thewordcametobeusedincommonlanguageforinsanity,maniaandmelancholia.[17]IshtiharofMirzaQadiani,7/8/1887,recordedinTabligh-e-Risalat,Vol.1,p.121

6ChapterOtherTraditions

NowwegiveheresomeoftheothertraditionsoftheHolyProphetwhichshowthathehimselfdidclaimtobetheLastOfTheProphets,usingotherphrases:

TheFourthTradition

TheHolyProphetsaid,"BaniIsrael,prophetswereleadingthem;whenaprophetdiedanotherprophetsucceededhim.Butaftermetherewillbenoprophet;therewillbeCaliphs."(SaheehBukhariKitab-ul-Manaqib).

TheFifthTradition

TheHolyProphetsaid:"Verily,theMessengershipandtheProphethoodhave(now)ended;sothereisnomessenger after me and no prophet," (Tirmizi Kitab al-:R'u'uya, BabuDhihab al-Nubuwwah;MusnadAhmadbinHanbalfromAnasbinMalik).

TheSixthTradition

ThistraditionisfoundinSaheehBukhari;SaheehMuslim,(Kitab-ul-Fadhail;BabAsmain-Nabi);SaheehTirmizi,(Kitab-ul-Adab,BabAsmain·Nabi);Muwatta(Kitab-ul-Asmain-Nabi);MustadrakofAl-Hakim,(Kitab-al-TarikhBabAsmain-Nabi):TheHolyProphetsaid:"IamMuhammad;andIamAhmad;andIamMahi,theKufrwillbeerasedby

me; and I amHashir, i.e., after me people will be gathered inHashr (i.e., after me there will be noprophet;aftermetherewillbeonlyQiyamah;andIamAqibafterwhomtherewillbenoprophet."

TheSeventhTradition

TheHolyProphetsaid:"GoddidnotsendanyprophetbutHewarnedHisUmmahaboutDajjal(Buthedidnotappearamongthem).AndIamthelastoftheprophetsandyouarethelastoftheUmmahs,andhewillappearamongyouanyhow.(SunanIbnMajah,Kitab-ul-Fitan,Bab-u1-Dajjal).

TheEighthTradition

ThereisanothertraditioninSaheehMuslim,SaheehTirmiziandSunanIbnMajahwhichsays:TheHolyProphet said: "Ihavebeengiven superiorityoverotherprophetsby sixdistinctions- (1) I

havebeengiventheabilitytouttershortsentencescoveringwiderangeofmeanings;(2)Iwashelpedbyfear;(3)Thebootyofwarwasmadelawfulforme;(4)TheearthhasbeenmadeformeMasjid .andameans toc1eanliness; (5.)Ihavebeensentas theMessengerofAllah to thewholeworld; (6)And thechainoftheProphetswasfinishedbyme,"

TheNinthTradition

Abdur-Rahman bin Jubair said that he heardAbdullah binAmr bin ‘As saying that one day theHolyProphet(S)cameoutofhishouseinsuchamannerashewastakingourleave;andhesaidthreetimes;"IamMuhammadtheunletteredprophet."Thenhesaid,"andthereisnoprophetafterme."

TheTenthTradition

ThistraditionisfoundinMusnadAhmadBinHanbal,NasaiandAbuDawood.TheHolyProphetsaid:"Thereisnoprophethoodafterme,exceptthegoodtidings."Hewasasked:"Andwhatarethegoodtidings,O'MessengerofAllah?"Hesaid"Gooddreams",orhe

said"truedreams".ItmeansthattherewasnopossibilityofrevelationaftertheHolyProphet.TheutmostthatanybodywillbegivenasasignfromAllahwillbethroughthetruedreams.

TheEleventhTradition

BaihaqiinhisSaheeh(Kitab-al-Ru'uya)andTabaranihavenarratedthattheHolyProphetsaid:"ThereisnoNabiaftermeandthereisnoUmmahaftermyUmmah."

TheTwelfthTradition

ThetraditionisfoundinSaheehMuslim(Kitab-ul-Hajj).TheHolyProphetsaid"AndIamthelastoftheProphetsandmyMasjidisthelastofthemosques."ItshouldbementionedherethattheQadianisclaimthattheHolyProphetsaidthathisMasjidwas"the

LastMasjid";whileinfactitisnotthelastofthemosques,becauseafterthatmillionsofmosquesbeenbuiltandarebeingbuilteverydayintheworld;likewisewhentheHolyProphetsaidthathewasthe"theLastMasjid",hemeantthattherewouldbeprophetscomingafterhim;thoughaccordingtotheFadhilahhewastheSupremeMostProphetashisMasjidisSuperiortoallothermosques.ButthesepeoplehavelosttheabilitytounderstandthewordsofAllahandhisProphet.Thistradition

hasbeennarrated inSaheehMuslim, in thechapterwhereProphetMuhammadAl-Mustafa (S)has saidthatthereareonlythreemosquesintheworldwhichhassuperiorityoverothermosquesandtheprayersinwhichisthousandtimesmorerewardingthaninothermosques;anditisforthisreasonthattravellingforthepurposeofprayersisallowedandlawfultothesethreemosquesonly.Othermosqueshavenorightthatamanshouldtraveltopraythereleavingtheothermosques.Firstof

those mosques is Masjid-ul-Haram, which was built by Prophet Abraham and Prophet Ismael (a.s.);thesecondmosqueistheMasjid-ul-AqsawhichwasbuiltbyprophetDavidandProphetSolomon(a.s.);andthethirdMosqueistheMasjidofMadinabuiltbytheHolyProphet(S).TheHolymeantthatasthereisnoprophetcomingafterhimtherewillbenomosqueintheworldafter

hismosquewhichwouldhavemorethawab(spiritualreward)andsuperiorityoverothermosques.Thusitisthelastofthemosquesoftheprophetsandthelastmosquetowhichamanisallowedtotravelforthepurposeofprayerinit.Thismeaningisclearfromanothertraditionwherethewordingis:"I am the last of the prophets and my mosques are the last of the mosques of the prophets." This

TraditionisnarratedDaylamiibnNajjarandBazzarandisrecordedinKanz-ulUmmal.

TheThirteenthTradition

'Hadith-ul-Manzila' is the sayingof theHolyProphet (S),whichhe said at the timeof his journey toTabuk.This tradition is correctwithout anydoubt fromanyquarter, and innumerable traditionalist andhistorianshaverecordedit.Someofthemare:àSaheehBukhari,Vol3.p.58àSaheehMuslim,Vol2,p.323àSunanIbnMajah,Vol1,p.28àMustadrak,Vol3,p.109àMusnadAhmadbinHanbal,Vol1,p.173-182Atthetimeofthatjourney,theHolyProphet(S)hasleftImamAli(a.s.),ashissuccessorinMadina.

ImamAli (a.s.) said "You are leavingme behind amongwomen and children." TheHoly Prophet (S)replied:"AreyounotpleasedthatyouhavethesamepositionwithmeasAaroonhadwithMoses,exceptthatthereisnoprophetafterme."ThisalsoisagreatprooffromthetraditionoftheHolyProphet(S)thattherewouldbenoprophetafter

him.These and other traditions have been narrated by numerous companions of theHoly Prophet and it

provesthattheHolyProphetofIslamondifferentoccasions,indifferentwaysandindifferentwordshasmadeitcrystalclearthathewasthelastoftheprophets,andtherewasnoNabicomingafterhim,thatthechain of Nubuwwah (Prophethood) has been completed, that anybody who claimed to beaRasulorNabiafterhimwouldbeDajjalandKazzab(liar).Can therebeanyother interpretationormeaningof thewordsofQur'an ''Khatamun-Nabiyyin' than

this?AlsothereistheDeclarationofSahabajustafterthedeathofHolyProphetthatfromthenontherewas

noNabitocome.Thefamouscollectionof thelectures,etc.ofImamAli(a.s.)knownas 'Nahj-ul-Balagha'(whichhas

beenpublishedinEgyptwithfootnotesandexplanationsofSheikhMuhammadAbduh)revealsonpage269:ImamAli(a.s.)saidwhenhewaswashingthebodyofHolyProphet(S):"Myfather.andmotherbe

yourransom,suchathinghasbeendiscontinuedwithyourdeathwhichwasneverdiscontinuedwiththedeath of any other person, (and that thing is) Prophethood, announcement (ofGhaib) and the news ofheaven."

7ChapterNubuwwahwithoutnewShari’ah

Concerningthelasttraditionmentionedinthepreviouschapter,theQadianimissionaryhadwrittentome:"ImamMuhammadTahirGujratihaswritteninhisTakmilaMajma-ul-Bihar(p.85)thatmeaningofis

thatnosuchprophetwillcomeaftermewhowillabrogatemyShari'ah"Iwroteinreply:"First of all, all such writers refer to the second coming of Prophet Jesus; son of Mary (a.s.)

who'sNubuwwah(Prophethood)wassome600yearsbeforetheadventofourHolyProphet.Theymeanthatifapreviousprophetre-appearsaftertheHolyProphetitisnotagainstthe'FinalityofProphethood',becauseevenwhenhewillcomehewillfollowtheShari'ahofourHolyProphet.Not only this; hewill refrain even from leading the prayers, andwill pray behind the Imam of the

Muslims, Thus he will live just like other Muslims - he will not call people to believe in hisownNubuwwah;hewillnotbringanyrevelation;hewillnotestablishanynewcommunity,separatefromall theMuslims. 'Khatamun-Nabiyyin'has closed the door of prophet hood so far as the newcomersareconcerned.But it has not stripped the previous Prophets of their prophethood, this meaning has clearly been

writtenin'Mishkat-ul-Masabih'inanoteunderthewordingoftheHolyProphet"andtheprophetswereendedwithme"whichsays"i.e.creationoftheprophets;thusnoprophetwillbecreatedafterme.ThiseditionofMishkatwasprintedin1307A.H.,longbeforetheclaimofprophethoodbyMirzaQadiani.SoyoumustunderstandthattheMuslimwritersdonotsaythatanewprophetcancomeaftertheHoly

Prophet, calling thepeople tobelieve inhimself.When they say IsabinMariam theydomean IsabinMariam; theydonot evendreamof anyMasil (likeness) ofMasih or anyGhulamAhmadbinGhulamMurtazaofQadian."If,asyoubelieve,ProphetIsabinMariamhasdiedandisnottocomeagain,thenallthewritingsof

Muslim scholars in this respectwouldbeworthless: you cannot fasten themonMirzaGhulamAhmadQadianiwho surelywas not born before theHoly Prophet, andwhowas not bornwithout father andwhosemotherwasChiraghbibiand,notMariambintImran.Look at in thisway. Either thewritings of these scholars about re-coming of Prophet Isa (a.s.) are

corrector arewrong. If theyare correct, then they refer to IsabinMariam,not toGhulamAhmadbinGhulamMurtaza. And if thesewritings arewrong, then how can you prove your ideaswith awrongassertion?Franklyspeaking,thistwistingofthewritingsofscholarscannotdoyouanygood.

WhyNotPerfectProphethood?

"Moreover, why do you say that no Sahib ash-Shari’ahprophet can come after the Holy Prophet ofIslam?"Accordingtoyourinterpretations,thereisnothingintheQur'antoprovethattheHolyProphetofIslamwas theLastProphet;Khatamun-Nabiyyinmeans just a "seal of theProphets" or "the suprememostprophet",andshowsjustthesupremacyoftheHolyProphetoveralltheotherprophets,Sahibash-Shari’ah and non Sahib ash-Shari’ah alike; La Nabiyya Ba'adi means only that no Sahib ash-Shari’ahprophetwillcomeafterwards.Alright,what is the trouble ifaSahibash-Shari’ahNabi,likeProphetMoses (a.s.), comes after the

HolyProphetandwhosegradeisbelowthatoftheHolyProphet?Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Qadiani wrote in several places that "is it not ridiculous to think that in

thisUmmah Siddiqs, Martyrs, and Pious people will come but no prophet will come? Well, is notprophethoodagraceofAllah?WhythisgraceshouldbewithdrawnfromthisUmmahwhichwas tobethebestofallUmmahs?"Well,nowtellme:WhyaSahibash-Shari’ahprophetshouldnotcomeintothisUmmah?IsnotSahib

ash-Shari’ahprophethoodmoreperfectthantheprophethoodwithoutanewShari'ah?WhythissuperiorgraceofAllah'hasbeenwithheldfromthisUmmah?"Onceyousay thatMuhammadAl-Mustafa (S)wasnot theLastProphet,youcannot say thataSahib

ash-Shari’ahprophetcannotcomeintothisUmmah."Andfollowingyourtrendofthinking,theidol-worshippersmayeasilysay:'LaIllahIllAllah',doesnot

meanthatthereisnoothergod.Itjustmeansthattherearemanyothergods,butthey'reunderAllah,theirgod ship is inferior toAllah; and their inferior god ship is not against the belief in theUnity ofGod,becausethesegodsareonlyHisfollowers."

Ibnal-‘Arabi’sViews

QadianialsoclaimthatSheikhMuhyiddinIbnal-‘ArabiofSpainhassaidthat'itispossibleforaMuslimsaint(Wali)toattaininhisspiritualevolutionpropheticrevelations.'Beforegoingfurtherit'snecessarytoremindtheQadianisthatSheikhMuhyiddinIbnal-‘Arabiwasabelieverin'Wahdat-ul-wujud'(TheUnityofBeing):hebelievedthateverythingisHe(i.e.,God).ThisbeliefhasbeentermedbyMuslimtheologiansasthebiggestpaganism,whichturnsevenadogand

pig into a deity. And the second Caliph of the Qadianis, Mirza Mahmud Ahmad, said inhisKhutba(sermon)ofFriday,printedintheAl-Fazl,dated20thOctober,1925(Vo1.13,No.46)aboutIbnal-‘Arabi that 'his knowledge was not complete; therefore, Ibn al-‘Arabi went out to the (beliefof)Wahdat-ul-wujud.'Now, is it not astonishing that they want to base their faith on the alleged views of a man whose

knowledgewasnotcomplete!Coming to the views of the said Sheikh Muhyiddin Ibn al-‘Arabi, we may quote from 'Islam and

Ahmadism'ofDr.Iqbal.It .shouldhenotedthat;Tasawwuf'(Mysticism)wasthespecialsubjectofDr.Iqbal.He writes:"I personally believe this view of the Sheikh Muhyiddin Ibn al-‘Arabi to be

psychologically unsound; but assuming it to be correct to Qadiani argument is based on acompletemisunderstandingofhisposition.TheSheikhregardsitasapurelyprivateachievementwhichdoesnot,andinthenatureofthingscannot,entitlesuchasainttodeclarethatallthosewhodonotbelieveinhimareoutsidethepaleofIslam.Indeed,fromtheSheikh'spointofviewtheremaybemorethanonesaint,livinginthesameageorcountry,whomayattaintopropheticconsciousness."Thepointtoberealizedisthatwhileitispsychologicallypossibleforasainttoattaintoprophetic

experience his experience will have no social-political significance making him the center of a neworganizationandentitlinghimtodeclarethisorganizationtobethecriterionofthefaithordisbeliefofthefollowersofMuhammad."Leavinghismysticalpsychologyaside,Iamconvincedfromacarefulstudyoftherelevantpassages

of theFutuhatthat the great Spanishmystic is as firm a believer in the Finality ofMuhammad as anyorthodoxMuslim.AndifhehadseeninhismysticalvisionthatonedayintheEastsomeIndianamateurinSufismwouldseektodestroytheHolyProphet'sFinalityundercoverofhismysticalpsychology,hewould have certainly anticipated the IndianUlema (Muslim scholars) in warning theMuslims of theworldagainstsuchtraitorstoIslam."TomakeDr. Iqbal'smeaning clear, here are some quotations from the Sufis' books. SheikhAbdul-

WahhabSha'araniwritesinhis'Al-Yawaqitwal-Jawahir'(p.25):"The difference between them (i.e.,Nabi and Rasul) is that theNabi,when the Spirit (i.e., angel)

reveals to him anything, theNabikeeps that revelation to himself reservedly and he is forbidden toconveythat(revelation)toanotherperson."Andifheistoldto"conveywhatissenttoyou"[eithertoaspecialgroup,aswasthecasewithalltheprophets;ortooneandall-andthisuniversalprophethood

wasnotgiventoanyoneexceptMuhammad(S)].HeiscalledRusul."Soifheisnotgivenanysuchorderwhichistohisownselfonly(notmeantfortheUmmah)he is

called"Rasul"not"Nabi".Andthatisthe"Tashree'i"prophethoodwhichisnotforthe"Walis"(saints)."ThusitisclearthatinthelanguageoftheSufisevenaWaliissupposedtoreceivetherevelationsfrom

Godandheiscalled'Nabi';butheisabsolutelyforbiddentoconveythatrevelationtoothers.Also,itisclear that all the prophets whom the Muslims call "Nabi", irrespective of whether they brought anynewShari'ahornot(i.e.,Sahibash-Shari’ahandGhairSahibash-Shari’ahboth),arecalled"Rasul"inSufiterminology,becausethoseprophetsweretoldbyAllahtoconveytherevelationstotheirUmmah.It is because of this terminology,which gathers all the prophets under the heading "Rasul" and all

the Awliya under the heading "Nabi" that the Sufis of Islam said that the Holy Prophet of Islamclosed 'Sahib ash-Shari’ah' prophethood (which term includes all the "prophets" of commonMuslimterminology).But as Dr. Iqbal points out, the "Wali" who according to the Sufis claim, receives revelation is

expresslyforbiddentocallanyonetohisfoldortostartanynewreligiousgroup.Howcan this fit onMirzaGhulamAhmadQadianiwho surely calledpeople to believe in himand

startedanewUmmah?SheikhMuhyiddin Ibn al-‘Arabi al-Andalusi has clearlywritten inAl-Futuhat-ul-Makkiya, using the

commonterminology:"The specialty which is found in a Nabi, and not in a Wali is the revelation bringing a

newShari'ah,BecausetherevelationofShari'ahisnot,butfortheNabiandRasul."Thus he claims the revelations for the Awliya’ (saints) after the Holy Prophet of Islam, but that

revelationdoesnotentitlethatWalitocallpeopletohimself,ortoconveythatrevelationtoothers.Also,astheremaybehundredsofWali"(Awliya’ inone time, theSufiswritingscannot fitonMirza

GhulamAhmadQadianiwhoclaimedthatnoonebuthehimselfcanbecomeaprophetafterMuhammad.

New'Nubuwwah':NotaGrace,ButaCurse

MirzaGhulamAhmadQadianithoughtthatanewNubuwwah(Prophethood)wouldbeaGraceofAllahforthisUmmah.ButinfactsuchaNubuwwahwouldbeoppositeofGrace;itwouldbeaCurse.How?Whenever a Nabi would come in an Ummah, there would automatically argue the question of

'Kufr'(blasphemy)andIman(faith).ThosewhowillbelieveinhimwillbecometheUmmah; thosewhowillrejecthisclaimwillbecountedanotherUmmah.And thedifferencebetween these twoUmmahswillnotbeof anunimportant 'branch'of religion. It

willbesuchabasicdifferencewhichwillnotallowthemtouniteuntiloneofthemleavesitsfaithandacceptsthefaithoftheotherUmmah.Further,thesourcesofguidanceandthereferencesofShari'ah, forallpracticalpurposeswillbequiteseparateforeachofthesetwoUmmahs.Becauseonegroupwill take itsShari'ah fromtherevelationand traditionof thenewNabi;and the

othergroupwilltotallyrefutethevalidityand,authenticityofthatsupposedrevelationandtradition,andwill not accept them as the source of Shari'ah.Thus practically, it will be impossible for these twogroupstouniteinonesociety.Ifwelookfromthisangle,itwillbeclearthatthe'Finality'oftheprophethoodisoneofthegreatest

mercies of Allah upon this Ummah. Because of this Finality of the prophethood,thisUmmah has remained an eternal and universal brotherhood which is unparalleled in the annalsofreligion and civilizations. This Finality of Prophethood has protected theMuslims from every suchbasicdifferencewhichcreatesapermanentriftamongstthem.Anybodywho believes inMuhammadAl-Mustafa (S) becomes amember of the brotherhood. This

unitycouldneverbeachievedifthedoorofNubuwwahwasnotclosed,becauseonthearrivalofeverynewNabi,thisunitywouldhavebeenshatteredtothepieces.IfamanthinkswithclearmindhewillhavetoacceptthatwhenaNabihasalreadybeen,sentforthe'

wholeworld,andwhenthroughthatNabithereligioniscompletedperfectly,andwhenthedirectionsofthatNabiarepreserved,protectedcompletely,thenthedooroftheNubuwwahmustbeclosed,sothatthewholeworld can unite together by following that prophet and can becomeoneUmmahof the believerwhichisnottobeinterferedeverynowandthenwiththeadventofnewprophets.Thisinterferenceintheunitywasunderstandablewhentherewasreallyaneedtosendaprophet,then

itisagainstthewisdomandmercyofAllahtocreateunnecessaryfrictionamongsttheUmmahofIslam.ThusitisclearthattheSealoftheProphethoodwhichisprovedfromtheQur'an,isprovedfromthe

traditionsoftheHolyProphet,isprovedfromtheunanimityofthewholeUmmah,isalsoprovedbytheintellectandwisdom.Thus,Qur'an,Sunah,Ijma'a,andAql;allfourbasicfoundationsofShari'ahandImandemandthatthe

doorofNubuwwahmustremainclosedforeveraftertheadventoftheHolyProphetofIslam.There is a very simple and interestingquestionwhich theQadianis shouldponder upon.Everybody

acceptsthatthequestionofprophethoodisaveryseriousquestion.AccordingtotheQur'an,itisinthosebasictenetsofIslamuponwhichdependsthetruebeliefortheKufrofaman.Ifacertainmanisatrueprophet and one does not accept him one becomesKafir.On the other hand, if that claimant is not aprophetandsomeoneacceptshimasatrueprophethebecomesKafir.NobodycanthinkthatAllahTa’alawouldbehavecarelesslyandoff-handedlyinsuchaseriousmatter.

IftherewasaNabitocomeafterMuhammadAl-Mustafa(S)Allahshouldnaymust,havemadetheHolyProphetannounceitveryclearlyinhissayings;andtheHolyProphetofIslam(S)couldnothaveleftthisworldwithoutwarninghisUmmahinunambiguoustermsthattherewasaprophettocomeafterhimandtheUmmahofIslammustaccepthim.NaturallyAllahandHisProphethadnoenmityagainst thefollowersofIslam,againstusandagainst

ourfaith;thatthoughthedoorofNubuwwahwastoremainopenafterMuhammadAl-Mustafa(S),thoughtherewasaNabi to come after him, stillwewere kept unaware of that event and that advent.On thecontrary; Allah and His Prophet both uttered such sayings which led the wholeUmmah,without anysectariandifferenceandwithoutanyexception, to thebelief, for fourteenhundredyears, that therewasnoNabitocomeafterMuhammadAl-Mustafa(S).If thedoorofNubuwwahisreallyopen,andifaNabicomestrulyfromGod,stillwewill refutehis

claim,wewillrejecthisprophethoodwithoutanyhesitation,withoutanyfearofreprisalAllah.When Allah, on the Day of Judgment, will take our account and will ask us why we rejected

theprophetsentafterMuhammad,wewillputthewholerecordofQur'anandtraditionsbeforeHim,andwewillsaythatifwewentastrayitwasbecauseofthebookofAllahandtraditionsofHisRasul.Andafterthepresentationoftheserecords,wearesureAllahcannotmeteanypunishmenttous,becauseofrejectinganewprophet.But if thedoorofNubuwwah is in fact closed afterMuhammadAl-Mustafa (S) and still someone,

believesintheclaimofaclaimantofanewNubuwwah,heshouldthinkbeforehandwhatrecordwillheput in the court ofAllah on theDay of Judgmentwhen hewill be asked aswhy did he believe in animposter whenAllah in theQur'an andRasul in His traditions had clearly declared several times indifferentwordingsthattherewasnoNabitocomeafterMuhammadAl-Mustafa(S).

8Chapter'Khatam'inDictionariesandUsage

Wehavejustseenthat in thecontextof theQur'anandaccordingto traditions,accordingtoIjma'aandaccording toReason, theonlymeaningof"Khatamun-Nabiyyin"which is relevant is 'TheLastofTheProphets', 'One who closed the prophethood. Now let us see what the dictionaries sayabout'Khatam'or.'Khatm'.

لمعلا متخ =(Khatamal-amal)=Hefinishedthe,workgiventohim.

ءانلاا متخ = (Khatam al-ina'a) = He sealed the mouth of pot (so that nothing comes out of it andnothingentersintoit).

باتكلا متخ =(Khatamal-Kitab)=Closedtheenvelopeandsealedit(sothatnothingisaddedintotheletterorputintotheenvelope).Itmust bementionedhere that 'seal' inArabicdoesnotmean the cancellation stampof post offices

whichareputonthepostalarticlesbeforesendingthemonward.Itmeansthesealofwaxwhichisputontheenvelopestoprotectitfromforgeryoradditions.

بلقلا ىلع متخ =(Khatamaalalqalb)=Heputasealontheheart(sothatnonewideaentersintoitandnooldprejudiceisremovedfromit).

بورشم لك ماتخ =(Khitamukullemashrub)=Thelasttastefeltattheendofadrink.ءيش لك ةماتخ =(Khatematukulleshay)=Endofeverything;anditsfinish.ءيشلا متخ =(Khatamashshay)=To'khatm'athingmeanstocomeattheendofthatthing.Anditisin

thissensethatweusetheword'Khatmul-Qur'an',i.e.,toreadtheQur'anuptoitsend.AlsoitisforthisreasonthatthelastversesofeachSuraarecalled( میتاوخ )'Khawateem'.

موقلا متخ =Khatamul-Qawm=Thelastmanofthetribeornation.ThesemeaningsaregiveninalltheauthenticdictionariesofArabiclanguage.The Qadianis say that if someone is said to be 'Khatam ush-Shu'ara' or 'Khatam ul-

Mufassireen' or 'Khatam ul-Fuqaha', nobody thinks that after that person no other poetorFaqeeh(religiousjurisprudent)orMufassir (commentator)wasborn.Everybody thinks that itmeansthatthesaidpersonwasthemostexpertinthatfieldofknowledge.These people forget that if aword is sometimes usedmetaphorically (in fill allegorical sense) that

metaphoricalusedoesnotdeprive itof its realmeaning. If, forexample, theword 'Lion' is sometimesused forabraveman, itdoesnotmean that thiswordcannotbeused for theanimal, forwhich itwascoined.

Such arguments show the hollowness of their minds and bankruptcy of their thinking. Even if one

thousandpersons are called 'Khatamul-Mufassireen' (in the senseof 'themostperfectMufassir') therealmeaningoftheword'Khatam'wouldremainthesamei.e.,TheLast.AsampleofQadianismiscomprehensionof subjectmattermaybe seen in the followingsentenceof

theirChiefMissionaryinTanzania,SheikhMuhammadMunawwarH.A.Itshouldbeborneinmindthatbeing'last'ofagroupofpeopleisnodistinctioninitself.SirRichard

TurnbullwasthelastgovernorofTanganyika.DoesthisaddtohisstatusasagovernororindicateshissuperiorityoverthelateTwining?"(AlivelyDiscussion).He does not pause to think that theNubuwwah of Prophet Muhammad Al-Mustafa (S) is not like

governorshipofSirRichardTurnbull.SirRichardTumbullwasthelastgovernorbecausetheBritishrulecame to an end with him. And a national government ousted him and his masters from the soilof Tanganyika. Muhammad Al-Mustafa (S) is the Last Prophet because his prophethood is not to beusurpedbyanyimpostor;heisthelastprophetbecausehis'rule'willcontinueuptoQiyamah;andnoonecomingafterhimcanusehistitleandnameforhimself.To talk inSheikhMuhammadMunawwar's language, ifSirRichardTurnbull'sgovernorshipwere to

continueup to the lastdayof theworld, andall representativesof theBritishcrowncomingafterhimwereobligedtokeephis'Chair'vacantforhim,andnottousetheTitleofGovernorforthethemselvesbut just to sign as the 'Leader of the government', would it not have been a tremendous tribute to SirRichardTurnbull?TheQadianiMissionaryhadwrittentome:"ImamSuyutiandImamIbnAthil'Al-Jazariweregiven the titleof 'Khatamul-Huffuz' (TheLast of

thosewhorememberedtraditions);likewise,AbuTammamat-Taihasbeendescribedas 'Khatamush-Shu'ara'(TheLastPoet).Canitbesaidthattherewasno'Hafiz'afterImamSuyutiorImamJazari,ornopoetafterAbuTammamatTai?"Iaskedhim:FirstofallhavethosephrasesbeenusedintheQur'anortradition?AsItoldyouearlier,

thephrase'Khatamun-Nabiyyin'wasneverusedinArabicbeforeQur'an;andthattheQur'anhasuseditforthefirsttime.Thus,themeaninggiventothisphrasebytheHolyProphetisitsrealmeaning.Ifsomeoneelseusessuchphrases insomeotherallegoricalsense, itdoesnotmake thatallegory its

realmeaning.Forexample,"moon"hasarealmeaningwhichallofusknow.Ifsomeoneusestheword'moon'forthefaceofabeautifulpersonitdoesnotmeanthat'beautifulface'istherealmeaningof'moon'orthatitcannotbeusedfortheterrestrialobjectforwhichitwasmade.Thirdly, these references, in fact, show the writer's thought (though wrong) that Imam Suyuti (for

example)wasthelastHafiz.Itwastheirmistakenidea,whichhasbeenprovedwrong.Andnowonder.Thosewritersdidnotknowwhatwas in future.Butcanyousuppose thatAllahalsodidnotknow thefuturewhenHesaidthatMuhammad(S)wastheLastoftheProphets?HowcanyoucomparethewordsofAllahwiththewritingsofsomemortals?Atthemostyoucansaythatthosewriterswerewronginbelievingthatthepersonconcernedwasthe

lastHafizorthelastpoet.Butyoucannotchangetherealmeaningof'Khatamun-Nabiyyin'tomaketheirwritingscorrect.Ifyou tell anArab 'Ja'aKhatamul-Qawm" hewill never understand that themost learnedmanof

thetribehasreached;hewillalwaysthinkthatthewholetribehasarrived,tillthelastman.Itisbecauseofthisthateverywriterofthedictionary;andeverycommentatoroftheQur'an,without

anyexceptionhaswrittenthat'Khatamun-Nabiyyin'means'Akhirun-Nabiyyin',theLastoftheProphets.IfyoulookimpartiallyattheseproofsfromtheQur'an,tradition,dictionaryandlanguage,youwillhave

toagreethattheHolyProphetofIslamwastheLastProphetandprophethoodendedwithhim.NoprophetwillevercomeafterhimuptothedayofQiyamah;andanybodyclaimingtobeaprophetwouldbeanimpostor.

Khatamul-Awliya’?

TheQadianimissionaryhadwrittentome;"ThereisatraditioninTafseerSafi(SuraAlAhzab,Ruku2)that the Holy Prophet said to Imam Ali: "O Ali, I am Khatam ul-Anbiya’ and you are Khatam ul-Awliya’".NowcananybodysaythatImamAliwasthelastWaliandnootherWalicancomeafterhim?"Iwrotetohim:ThissupposedtraditionquotedfromTafseerSafiisnotonlywithoutanySanad(chain

ofnarrators)butalsoitcannotbefoundinanyotherbookoftradition.On theotherhand, thereare some traditions in thebookswrittenby theSunnisaswell as theShias

which describe Imam Ali (a.s.) as "Khatam ul-Ausiya’" or "Khatam ul-Wasiyyin" (The Last of thesuccessorsoftheProphets).Herearetwoofthesaidtraditions:1.SheikhSulemanal-Balakhial-Qanduzi,al-Hanafiwrotehisbook'Yanabi-ul-Mawaddah'byorderof

SultanAbdul-Aziz, theTurkishCaliphof theSunnis; thebookwaspublishedunder theauthorityof theTurkishCaliphateinIstanbul,in1301Hijra.Hequotesinthesaidbook:"Likewise,Al-HamwainihasnarratedthetraditionfromAbuDharthathesaidthattheHolyProphet

(S)said,'IamKhatamun-Nabiyyinandyou,OAli,areKhatamul-WasiyyinuptothedayofJudgment".2.UbaidullahAmritsariquotesinhishook,Arjahul-Matalib[18],alongtraditionfromAnas,inwhich

theHoly Prophet (S) described ImamAli (a.s.) as "Amir-ul-Mu'mineenwa Sayyid ul-MuslimeenwaKhatamul-WasiyyinwaImamul-Ghurril-Muhajjaleen".ThistraditionhasbeenquotedfromIbnMardwaih.ItshowsthatImamAli(a.s.)was"TheCommander

oftheFaithful,ChiefoftheMuslims;andtheLastofSuccessors(oftheProphets)andtheLeaderofthosewhowillcomeontheDayofJudgmentwithshiningfacesandilluminatedhandsandfeet".Infact,thesetraditionsareonemoreproofoftheFinalityoftheProphethood.ImamAli(a.s.)was"the

LastoftheSuccessorsoftheProphets",becausetherewasnootherprophettocomeaftertheLastoftheProphetsMuhammadAl-Mustafa(S)uptotheDayofQiyamah(Resurrection).Hadtherebeenanyotherawaitedprophet,Ali(a.s.)couldnothavebeendescribedastheLastortheSuccessorsoftheProphets.So you see, the correct tradition is not for you; it is against your belief.Now it appears that some

scribes made a mistake in copying Manaqib (from where this tradition has been taken in Safi) andwroteKhatamul-Awliya’inplaceofKhatamul-Awsiya’.Thatiswhyyoucannotfindthistraditioninanyotherbookoftraditions,exceptManaqiborwhereithasbeenquotedfromManaqib.Itisonemoresignoftheweaknessofyourcausethatyouhavetoclutchtosuchmisquotedorwrongtraditions!

Abbas:"Khatamul-Muhajireen"

Qadianissay:"Inthebook"Kanzul-Ummal",Vol.6,p.178,SeyyidanaAbbas(uncleoftheHolyProphet(S)hasbeencalled"Khatamul-Muhajireen".DoesitmeanthathewastheLastMuhajir(emigrant)?"Fact: Yes. He was in fact the Last Muhajir. You must understand that Al-Muhajireen and Al

Ansarmentioned in theQur'an and tradition havea specialmeaning. In otherwords, they are specialterms.Theword'Al-Muhajireen'isusedonlyforthosewhointheearlierdaysofhardshipofIslamlefttheir towns andmigrated either to Ethiopia orMedina. And 'Ansar' is used only for those inhabitantsofMedinawhohelpedtheHolyProphet(S)andtheAl-Muhajireeninthosedays.Hijrat(emigration)wasdiscontinuedafterHolyProphetenteredMeccaintheyear8ofHijra.Before

surrenderofMecca theMuslimsofMeccaandotherplaceswererequired todoBay'at (allegiance)onIslam andHijrat.After the surrender of Mecca, Mujalid bin Mas'ud accepted Islam and wanted todoBay'atonIslamandHijrat,aswasthesystem.But the Holy Prophet (S) said: "There is no Hijrat after the capture of Mecca", and Mujalid

didBay'atonIslamonly.(SeeBukhariVol.4,p.92).Therefore;AbbaswasinfacttheLastofAl-MuhajireenwholefttheirtownforMedinaasthewordis

usedintheQur'an.Hafiz IbnHajarwritesaboutAbbas inhisbookAl-IsabaFiMa'arifatis sahaba (Vol.3,p.668): "He

didHijratshortlybeforecaptureofMeccaandparticipatedinthatcapture."HistorysaysthatAbbastogetherwithhisfamilyleftMeccaforMedina;butmettheHolyProphet(S)in

thewayatJuhfaorRabigh(whowasgoingtocaptureMeccawithhisarmy).Thereupon.AbbassenthisfamilytoMedinaandaccompaniedtheHolyProphettoMecca.NaturallywhenheardtheHolyProphet(S)sayingthat"therewasnoHijrataftercaptureofMecca",he

wasperturbed thatperhapshewouldnotbe countedamong theMuhajireen.You seeHijratwas beingabolishedjustalterhismigrationfromMecca,andhehadnotyetreachedMedinabeforethatdeclaration.WhentheHolyProphet(S)cametoknowofhisanxietyhetoldhimnot toworry,becausehewas"theLastMuhajir"."Donotworry,Ouncle,becausethouartthelastoftheMuhajireen".Iknowthat,accordingtothedictionary,anybodymigratingfromoneplaceandgoingtoanothermaybe

called'Muhajir? But he will not be among the 'Al-Muhajireen' of the Qur'an. Likewise anybodyconveyingthemessageofonemantoanothermaybecalled'Rasul'.Buthewillnotbethe'Rasul'ofAllahaccording to the Qur'an. And anybody bringing a news can be called 'Nabi', but he will not bethe'Nabi'ofQur'an.Justtoshowhowyourargumenthasnolegtostand,Iwouldlikeyoutotellmehowwillyouinterpret

thephrase'Khatamul-Muhajireen?Does it mean "Superior to all theMuhajirs"? Impossible, because Abbas was never considered

superiortoAli(a.s.),HamzaandmanyotherMuhajirs.

Ordoesitmean"SealoftheMuhajirs?"IfsothendoesitmeanthatotherpeoplebecameMuhajirby

thesealofAbbas?OrdoesitmeanthathewasconfirmingtheHijratofotherMuhajirs?Surely,noneofthesemeaningcanfithere,exceptthe"LastMuhajir".'Thus,itisclearthatAbbaswas

called"Khatamul-Muhajireen"becausehewas"TheLastMuhajir".Notes:[18]printedatNawalKishorePress,Lahore,2ndEdition,p.25.

9ChapterWhoisAhmad?

Qadianisay:"Inchapter61(As-Saff)verse6prophecyhasbeenmadeof theadventofMirzaGhulamAhmad;andverses8-10describethepromisewhichwasgiventohim."Facts:Thiswritingismostinteresting.Verse6isasfollows:

همسا يدعب نم يتأی لوسرب ارشبمو ةاروتلا نم يدی نیب امل اقدصم مكیلإ هللا لوسر ينإ لیئارسإ ينب ای میرم نبا ىسیع لاق ذإونیبم رحس اذ ه اولاق تانیبلاب مهءاج املف دمحأAnditsmeaning,accordingtotheirEnglishtranslation,isasfollows:"And remember when Jesus, son of Mary, said, ochildren of Israel, surely I am Allah's

Messenger unto you fulfilling that which is before me of Torah, and giving glad tidings of e.Messengerwhowillcomeafterme.HisnamewillbeAhmad.Andwhenhecametothemwithclearproofstheysaid,'Thisisclearenchantment"'.The translatory of theQadianiSwahili translationhave rendered theword "Sih'r" as "udanganyifu"

whichmeans'cheating'.Butthecorrecttranslationof"Sihr"is'magic'·or'witch-craft',not'cheating'.ThistwistingofthewordsoftheQur'anhasbeendoneintentionallybecauseMirzaGhulamAhmadwas

nevercalleda'magician'or'Sihir'forthesimplereasonthathenevershowedanyextraordinarysignormiraclewhichcouldbeattributedto'magic'or'witch-craft'Ofcourse,hewasandis,brandeda'cheater':andthatiswhytheirtranslatorshavetwistedtheSwahilimeaningoftheverse,to'Thisisclearcheating!Nowwecometotheverseitself.Ahmadwas the name of theHoly Prophet (S) of Islam.He himself told that one of his nameswas

"Ahmad";peopleduring thedaysofSahaba referred tohimas"Ahmad" in theirpoems;childrenwerenamed"Ahmad"afterhim in the sameperiod;andMirzaGhulamAhmadQadianihimself said thathisfollowersshouldbecalled"Ahmadi"afterthenameoftheHolyProphet(S)ofIslamwhohadtwonamesMuhammadandAhmad.

A.SayingsoftheHolyProphet

1.JubairbinMut'imsaidthattheHolyProphet(S)said;"Ihavefivenames,IamMuhammad,andIamAhmad……"This tradition has been narrated by Imam Bukhari. Imam Muslim, Imam Malik and Imam

Tirmiziintheirbooks(allfromSihahas-Sitta).2.AbuMusaAsh'arisaid:TheHolyProphet(S)usedtoenumerateforushisnames;thushesaid,"Iam

Muhammad,andIamAhmad………"ThistraditionisnarratedinSahih-e-Muslim,MusnadAhmadbinHanbalandMusnadofAlBazzar.3.Alsoitisnarrated:TheHolyProphet(S)said:"VerilyIwastheKhatamun-Nabiyyininthepresence

ofAllahwhenAdamwasintheformofthemoldedclay;andIamtellingyouitsinterpretation:(Iam)theprayerofAbrahamandgoodtidingsofJesusandthedreamofmymotherwhichshewasshown………."ThistraditioniswritteninMusnadAhmadbinHanbal,Al-Mu'jam-ul-KabirofTabaraniandMusnadof

Al-Bazzar.And the meaning of the phrase (good tidings of Jesus) is the same verse which the Qadianis

shamelesslytrytofitonMirzaGhulamAhmadQadiani.4.Also,hesaid:"AbrahamprayedformeandJesusbroughtmygoodtidingsandmymothersawatthe

timeofmybirthalightwhichbrightenedforherallbetweeneastandwest".[19]5.OthertraditionsofthesamemeaninghavebeennarratedinMishkatul-Masabih.6.TheHolyProphet(S)said:"MynameintheQur'anisMuhammad;andinEvangelisAhmad."

B.Poems

HerearesomeofthepoetriesoftheSahabaoftheHolyProphet(S)inwhichtheHolyProphet(S)hasbeenmentionedasAhmad:ImamAlibinAhmadal-WahidihasnarratedfromAbuHurairawhosaid……………ThenAlisaid:

"Listentome."Thenherecitedtelling:"PeoplesurelyknowthatmyshareintheIslamismuchgreaterthanallshares;andAhmadtheProphet

(S)ismybrotherandfatherinlawandcousin,MayAllahblesshim".ThistraditionisnarratedbyQadhiMaybadhiShafeiandSheikhAl-QanduziHanafifromImamWahidi,

(VideYanabiul-Mawaddah.p.68).(b)ImamAli(a.s.),duringthedaysofhisCaliphatesaid,condemningsomeof theallegationsofhis

enemies:"Lo,Iheardanevil talk,whichisalieonAllahandwhichturnsthecolorofhairintowhite;which

entersintotheearsandcoverstheeye.Ahmadwouldnothavebeenpleasedifhewereinformedofit".Al-Imamah was'siyasah (Vol.I, p.84); Kitab ussiffin of Ibn Muzahim, p.24; Sharh-Ibn Abil Hadid

(Vol.2,p.69)..(c)Amrbin‘As,beforeacceptingIslam,wasoneof thegreatestenemiesofIslam.Inthosedays,he

boastedofthatenmity.Itwasinthatconnectionthathesaidabouthimself:"And(Iam)theenemyofAhmadfromamongthem;andamthemostout-spokenperson,againsthim"

(TazkiraSibtIbnJawzi,p.16;SharhIbnAbilHadidVol.6,p.292;Jamharatul-Khutub,Vo1.2,p.12).(d)HassanbinThabitAnsari,thefamouspoetoftheHolyProphet(S)said,"There are forever from the family ofHashim the· unassailable pillars, of strength in Islam and its

pride.Thevirtuouschiefs,amongwhomisJa'afarandhisbrotherAli(a.s.)andfromthemisAhmad,thechosenone".(Al-Iqdul-FaridoflbnuAbdeRahbihAl-Undulusi,Vol.5,p.380,printedinEgypt).(c.)Name:Peoplefromthebeginningused tonametheirchildrenAhmadafter thenameof theHoly

Prophet(S).Forexample,ImamHassan,thegrandsonoftheHolyProphet(S),(died50A.H.)hadnamedoneofhissons'Ahmad'.(Bihar-ul-Anwar,Vol.10).(d)AndMirzaGhulamAhmadhimselfwrites:AndAhmadisthatnameoftheHolyProphet(S)whichwasmentionedbyProphetJesus:"willcomeafterme,hisnameisAhmad".Theword'AfterMe' shows thatprophetwould come aftermewithout any gap, i.e., no other prophetwould

comebetweenmeandhim". (KitabMalfuzate·Ahmad, i.e.,Diary1901pp.4and5.AkhbarAl-Hakamdated31/1/1901).Ponderseriouslyupontheitalicizedsentencewhichisacompleteproofinitself.ThusMirzaGhulamAhmadhimself accepts that thisverse is theprophecyofourHolyProphet (S),

whowastocomeafterProphetJesus(a.s.)

"withoutgap".RememberthatthisisthequalificationoftheHolyProphet(S)ofIslamandnotofMirza

GhulamAhmadQadiani.(e)Againhewrites:"AndthissecthasbeennamedAhmadiyyabecauseourProphet(peacebeonhim)hadtwonames;1.

Mohammad(S)and2.Ahmad(S)"(IshtiharWajibulIzhar,4/11/1900).(f)Againhewrites:"YouhaveheardthatourProphet(S)hadtwonamesOne,Mohammad(S)andthisnameiswrittenin

TorahthesecondnameisAhmad(S)andthisnameisinEvangel…….Asappearsfromthisverse:"Andgivinggood tidingsof aMessengerwhowill comeaftermewhosename isAhmad". (Arbain

No.4,p.13).(g)And the name of your prophetwasGhulamAhmad, notAhmad.And he himself haswritten its

meaningas'slaveofAhmad',aswillappearinthesewritings:"BecausetheChristianmissionariesturnedJesus,sonofMary,intogodandabusedourChief,Maula

and real Shafi (i.e., the Holy Prophet Muhammad S.) and made the earth unclean by abusive books,therefore,incontrasttothatMessiahwhowascalledgod,GodsentinthisUmmahapromisedMessiahwho is far greater in all his glories than the firstMessiah (i.e. Prophet Jesus a.s.) andHe (i.e.,God)named this second,Messiah "GhulamAhmad", so that itmay be a sign thatwhat type of godwas theMessiahoftheChristianswhocannotcompetewithevena'humbleslaveofAhmad'.Imean,howisthatMessiahwhoisinferior'tothe'slaveofAhmad'inhisnearnessandShifa'at.""TheChristianswere proclaiming loudly that theMessiah also is uniquewithout any partner in his

nearness and honor. Now God shows that, 'look, I will create his second who is better than him;(and)whois'GhulamAhmad'i.e.,slaveofAhmad'.Ifyouwanttoknowthetruemeaningof;tryingtoextinguishthelightofAllahbythepuffofmouthlook

at the Qadianis' attempts which if successful would mean that the Holy Prophet (God forbid)wronglyclaimedtobeAhmad!ItisreallysurprisingtoseetheQadianisignoringthemeaningof"GhulamAhmad"whichtheholderof

thenamehimselfreiteratesrepeatedly,especiallysowhenthatholderisalsotheirprophet.Toprovetheirownview(and,intheprocess,refutingthemeaninggivenbyMirzaGhulamAhmadQadianihimself)theyargue that "GhulamAhmad" has no vowel of "possession". Had it beenArabic, it, should have been"Ghulam-o-Ahmad";orifPersian,thenitshouldhavebeen"Ghulam-e-Ahmad'.Allright,letustalktothemintheirownway.ItisPersiancombinationandinPersianlanguage,many

possessive phrases whose first part denotes some kind of relation (like'bin' - son - , 'pisar' - son -, 'saheb' - owner or companion)are usedwithout the possessive vowel. This system is called'Fakk-e-Izzafat(i.e.,omissionofpossessivevowel).Examples are: Saheb-dil, Pidar-zan, Pisar-Am, etc. This happens because of the frequency of use.

Likewise,becauseoffrequentuse,thepossessivevowelinsuchnamesas"GhulamAhmad"isomitted,

butthemeaningremainsthesame.Askanyonehavinganamelike"GhulamRasul"or"GhulamHusain"andhewillatoncesaythathisnamemeans"slaveoftheProphet"or"slaveofHusain".Notes:[19]Al-Iqdul-Farid,Vol.IV,p.251.

10ChapterHistoryofReligions

TheQadianiMissionarywrote:IfyouhaveanydoubtaboutMirzaGhulamAhmadQadianisclaim,thenshowusasingleexample,sinceProphetAdamuptothedeathoftheHolyProphetofIslam,ofsuch'amanwhoclaimedwronglytobeaprophetandwhoseclaimhadbeensuccessful.Ifwrongclaimants.ofprophethoodmaysucceedthenwhatisthedifferencebetweena,genuineprophetandanimpostor?Qur'ansaysinchapteral-Haqqah,69,verses45to47:"If(ourApostleMuhammadS.)hadfabricatedagainstusanyofthesayingscertainlywouldwe

haveseizedhimbytherighthand;thencertainlywouldwehavecutoffhisaorta".My Reply: This verse means that those who have been commissioned by God cannot but deliver

whatevertheyarechargedwith,andGodneverallowsthemtoforgeanythingoftheirownonHisbehalf.Butitdoesnotmeanthattheimpostorsortheself-appointedprophetswhofalselyclaimtohavebeen

sentbyGodmustperishbecausethereisnoneedtoexposethem.Theirridiculousclaims,likethoseofBahaullah,ortheirlackofmiraclesareenoughtoexposetheirfalsity.Perhapsyoudonotknow,butitistheacceptedbeliefofallthesectsSunniandShiaalike,thattheonly

distinctionsbetweentrueandfalseprophetsare:l.Thestandardoftheir teachings- trueprophetstaughthighmoralswhilefalseonesgavelatitudeto

theirfollowers;2.Miracles-whichappearedonthehandsofthetrueprophetsandnotonthoseoffalseones;3.theIsmat(sinlessnessinfallibility).AndtheHolyQur’anitselfshowsinvariousversesthatthosewhofabricateliesagainstAllahmayget

someenjoymentinthisworld;andthattheirpunishment'isinQiyamah.Seeforexample:"Say, thosewho inventa lieagainstAllahwillnotprosper;someenjoyment in thisworld;and

then to Us will be their return. Then shall We make them taste the severest penalty for theirblasphemies".(Qur’an,10:69·70)Thereneverwasanystandardofthelengthoflifeorthesuccessorfailureofhismission.Itisjustan

arbitrarystandardinventedbyyourMirzaGhulamAhmadQadianiwhowrotethat:"Sincethebeginningoftheworldthereneverwasanyexampleofevenasinglepersonwhogot, '23

years like our chief theHoly Prophet (S) andwhowaswrong in his claim of getting revelation from

God….Ifyoufindaperson,whoclaims,tobesentbyGodandifitisprovedthat23yearshadpassedsince theclaimofreceivingtherevelationfromGod………. thenyoushouldbelieve thathe isfromGod".Thisself-inventedstandardofthetruthorfalsityoftheclaimofprophethoodisveryamusing.Letus

suppose,amanheardourHolyProphet(S)proclaiminghisprophethoodinthebeginningandsaidthathewouldwait23yearstoseewhetherMuhammadsurvivedthatperiodornot,doyouthinkhewouldhavebeenexcusedandpardonedbyGod?Andwhatifhehimselfdiedduringthelife-timeoftheHolyProphetwithoutacceptingIslam?Whatarubbish!And remember that many true prophets had been 'killed within one, two or three years of their

prophethood.Whatwouldhavebeen theposition ifsomeone,during theprophethoodofProphetYahya(John),refusedtobelieveinhim,sayingthatashedidnotlive23yearshewas,Godforbid,aliar".Andalsosomeimpostorshavelivedmorethan23yearsaftertheirclaims.Whymakeaconditionfrom

Adam' up to the Holy Prophet"? If it is a Divine criterion, It would remain true ever after the HolyProphetofIslam.Infact,"aftertheHolyProphet"wouldhavebeenmoreappropriate,andabetterperiodforchecking,becausenowweknowthatnootherreligionistocomefromGod.StillweseethatmanyreligionshavingnoconnectionwithIslamhaveappearedaftertheHolyProphet

andhaveprospered.Forexample,SikhandBahai religions.They themselvesdonotclaimanyaffinitytowards Islam and still they have prospered though the Muslims and Qadianis both agree that thesereligionsarewrong.TheChurchofJesusChristofLaterDaySaints(CommonlyknownasMormonChurch)wasfoundedby

JosephSmithin1820A.D.,whenheclaimedtohavereceiveddivinecallforprophecyinthenameoftheMostHigh.He claimed to receive divine revelationwritten upon golden plateswhich hewas able totranslate.Thefirsteditionofthebookofhisrevelationwasprintedin1830.Hisassociate,OliverCowdery,alsoclaimedtobeordainedbyangelicvisitants.Smithwaskilledin

1844, i.e., 24years after his claim; but hismurder did not stophisMission.His followers flourishedinUtahandthreeadjoiningstatesandthewholestateofUtahispopulatedbythem,andoneofthemwasconsideredasacandidateforU.S.A.presidencyin1968.Theybelieve in the 'BookofMormons' tobe the 'WordofGod', togetherwith theBible, just as the

(QadianisbelieveinBarahin-e-AhmadiyaandmanyotherbooksofMirzaGhulamAhmadQadianiasthe'WordofGodtogetherwiththeQur'an.ThusJosephSmithclaimedtobeaprophet,asMirzaQadianidid;hepublishedhisrevelation,asMirza

Qadianidid;heestablishedalineofprophetsasMirzaQadianiestablishedalineofCaliphs;andhissectisflourishingtosuchanextentthatisbeyondthedreamsoftheQadianistillthisday;andwhatismore,hewasgivenmorethan23yearstoliveafterthatclaim,whichMirzaSahebwasnotgiven.Now,IwonderwhatnewexcusestheQadianiswillinventtoovercomethisinsurmountabledifficulty.

Will they say that Mormon Church is from God, so as to maintain the accuracy of the self-inventedstandardofMirzaQadiani?

ItwouldbeInterestingtoyouthatyourMirzaQadianihaddeclaredinArbain(No.3) intwoplaces(p.9; pp.29-30) that God had promised him that he would live 80 years or 2 or 4 years more orless.Itmeansthathewaspromisedtolivenotlessthan76yearsandnotmorethan84years.And also he wrote in the same book that God had promised to him to protect him from

every'Khabith'(Dirty)disease.(ArbainNo.3,p,9)Thebookquotedaboveisinmylibraryandyouarewelcometoseeitanytime.Well,nowletuslookatthefactsandcomparethemwiththeseclaims:(1) Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Qadiani was born in 1339 or 1840 A.D. and died on 26th May, 1908

A.D.'ItmeansthathisclaimofGod'spromise(80yearsor2or4yearsmoreorless)waswrong.Ashehadmadethisageof76to84yearsasasignofhistruth,hisdeathattheageof68yearsproveshimanimposterbyhisownwords."(2)Up to 1901A.D.many times he declared that his claim by theword 'prophethood'was not the

'prophethood'as'understoodbytheMuslim);butthatit'srealmeaningwas'Muhaddath':"Inthebooksofthishumbleman(i.e.,MirzaQadianihimself),-Fat'hul-Islam,Tawzihul-Maram,and

Izala-e·Awham - all such words "Muhaddath is a Nabi in one meaning", or " Muhaddathiyyat is apartialNubuwwah"or"MuhaddathiyyatisanimperfectNubuwwah"arenotusedinitstruemeaning.Inmy simplicity, I have used them in their literal meaning. Never do I claim the real,Nubuwwah…….Therefore, Iwant to explain tomyMuslim brothers that if they are angry because ofthesewordstheyshouldtreatthemasamendedandshouldreadthemas'Muhaddath'……"My intention, from the beginning as God knows very well,with this word 'Nabi' was not the

real 'Nubuwwah', but only' Muhaddath' which has been· interpreted by the Holy Prophetas'Mukallam'(withwhomangelstalk)ashesaidaboutMuhaddath:'TherewerebeforeyouinBaniIsraelmenwhoweretalkedto(bytheangels)withoutthembeingprophets".(IshtiharofMirzaQadiani,given inTabligh-e-Risalat,Vol.2,p.95,asquoted in 'QadianiMazhabka

IlmiMuhasibaofIlyasBarni).ThisadvertisementwaspublishedbyMirzaGhulamAhmadQadianion3rdFebruary,1892,whenhe

wasdefeatedina3-dayreligiousdiscussion(Munazirah)withMuslimscholars.In the long history of religions, he finds only two claimants of divine revelations who wrote such

confessions (or 'resignation') declaring that their claims stood amended— inotherwords theoriginalclaimswerewrong: First,MirzaAliMohammad, the founder ofBabi; second,MirzaGhulamAhmadQadiani,founderof.theQadianireligion.Now, theQadianis say thatMirzaGhulamAhmadnever said that hewasnot aNabi (Prophet).Mr.

Abul-AtaJalandhari, lateprincipalofJameatul-Mubashslmin,Rabwa,writes inhisbook 'Tafheemat-e-Rabbaniyya'(pp.44-45;2ndedition,1964)."Yes,he(i.e.,MirzaGhulamAhmad)didclaimtobea'Nabi'(Prophet)withoutnewShari'ah;andhe

neverdeniedthisclaim,neitherbefore1901norafter1901.Ashe(MirzaGhulamAhmad)haswritten:

"WhereverIhavedeniedtobeaprophetorapostle,itisonlywiththismeaningthatIamnotabringer

ofanewshari'ahindependently,norIamanindependent'Nabi'.ButIhaveneverdeniedprophethoodinthemeaning that,getting spiritualbenefits' frommy leader apostle, andbeinggivenhisname forme, IhavebeengivenbyAllah, throughhim, theknowledgeofunseen, (and)amanapostleandprophet,butwithout any new Shari'ah. I have never denied to be called such a prophet; but Allah has calledmeprophetandapostleinthisverymeaning.(EkGhalatiKaIzala)"First,readagainhiscleardeclarationthathewasonlya'Muhaddath',andhisexplanation(inthewords

oftheHolyProphetofIslam)that'Muhaddath'means"menwhoweretalkedtobytheangelswithoutthembeing'Nabi'(prophet)".Thenlookatthisshamelessassertionthat"Ihaveneverdeniedprophethoodinthemeaningthat……..I

amanapostleandprophet,butwithoutanewShari'ah."Comparethesetwostatementsandtherewillbenoneedofanycomment.ThereisPersianproverb:A

liarhasnomemory.Hewritesinhishook"Haqiqatun-Nubuwwah"(page148-150):."ThewritingsofHudhur(a.s.)(i.e.,MirzaGhulamAhmadQadiani)ofearliertimesshowthatheisnot

a claimant of prophethood; but the writings and talks of later period prove that he was claimingprophethood………………..OurresearchisthatProphetMasihMaw'ud(a.s.)changedhisbeliefaboutthequestionofNubuwwahabout1901A.D."Itmeansthathewasnotclaimingtobeprophettill1901.Also,hehaswrittenthat"thequestionofNubuwwahbecameclearonhim(MirzaQadiani)in1900or

1901.Hechangedhisbeliefin1901.Therefore,allthereferencesofbefore1901inwhichhehaddeniedhisprophethoodarenowabrogated(cancelled)".Now,Iwouldliketopointoutanother3matters:First,AllahsaysintheQur'an:"TheMessenger(ofAllah)believedinwhatwasrevealedtohimfromhisLordandthebelievers

(alsobelieved)".(Qur'an:2:285)Whatkindof theprophetwasMirzaGhulamAhmadQadianiwhoaccording tohis laterclaimswas

given prophethood since 1887 or near that time, and still he continued to disbelieve hisownNubuwwahfor14yearsupto1901?Haveyouheardanythinglikethisinhistoryorreligions?Second:Anyhow,hebeganhis firmbelief inhisNubuwwahin1901.Andhedied in1908. Itmeans

that,accordingtohisownstandardhewasnotgiven23yearstoliveafterthedeclarationofhisclaim,becausehewasaliar.Third: He had claimed that God had promised to him to protect him from every Khabith (dirty)

disease.But,thediseasebywhichMirzaQadianidiedwascholeraaccordingtohisowndeclaration.This lastdeclarationisfoundin thewritingofMirNasirSaheb,father-in-lawofMirzaQadianiand

oneofhisstaunchfollowers.Hewrites:"ThenightwhenHadhratsahib(i.e.,MirzaGhulamAhmadQadiani)fellill,Ihadgonetosleepatmy

place.Whenthe'Takleef'(discomfort)increasedonhim,Iwasawakened.WhenIreachedHadhratSahebandsawhiscondition,hesaidaddressingme:'MirSaheb,'Ihavegotepidemiccholera'.Then,sofarasIknow,henevertalkedsoclearlytillhediednextdayafter10a.m.'"(Hayat-e-Nasir,p.14; editedbySheikhYaqubAli Irfani,Qadiani; asquoted in 'QadianiMazhabKa

IlmiMuhasiba'ofProfessorIlyasBerni).Now,accordingtohisownstandardMirzaGhulamAhmadQadianisclaimofprophethoodprovesto

bealie,becauseGoddidnotprotecthimfromthe'Khabith"(dirty)disease.

11ChapterSomeMisinterpretedVerses

TheAfricanQadianimissionaryhadwrittentome:"Inthechapter7(Al-A'raf),verse35itissaid,'OChildrenofAdam,withoutdoubtwillcometoyou

prophets from amongst yourselves, who will inform you of my signs'. Itmeans that the prophets willcontinuetocomewithoutbreak".Facts:ThesepeoplehavebeenmisledbytheirwrongSwahilitranslationwhichisaglaringexample

ofinterpreting,theQur'anaccordingtoone'sownwish.Theverseis:This verse is one 'Conditional sentence' and their own English translation published under the

auspicesoftheirsecondcaliphinPakistansays:"OChildrenofAdam, ifMessengerscame toyoufromamongyourselves, rehearsingMysigns

untoyou,thenwhososhallfearGodanddogooddeeds',onthemshallcomenofearnorshalltheygrieve".ButtheSwahilitranslatorshavetwisteditsmeaningtomisleadAfricanMuslims.Ihadwritteninhis

reply:"HereIwouldliketo informyouthat 'Imma ' ismadeof 'In'the 'conditionalconjunction'whichisan

extra addition andwhich gives the emphasis to the condition, i.e., subordinate clausemust follow theprincipal clause. If anyQadiani isunawareofArabic,hemay see 'TeachYourselfArabic',Lesson28(ConditionalandExcepticSentences),whereitiswrittenfollowsthesameruleasbutisoftenfollowedbytheenergetic".So,isaconditionalconjunctionwhichisoftenfollowedbyenergeticasisthecaseinthisverse.Butit

is a Conditional sentence, not an informative one; "IF" the' condition is fulfilled then the 'Jaza'(subordinateclause)willhappen.ThisstatementinthestoryofProphetAdamiswritteninthreeplacesintheQur'anwiththesame"conditional 'Imma'andenergeticorAndIamquotingthetranslationsofothertwoversesfromyourowntranslation.Thefirstverseisinchapter2(Al-Baqar'a)verse38:Itstranslation,accordingtotheEnglishtranslationis:"We said: Go forth, all of you, from here. And if there comes to you guidance from

Me,thenwhososhallfollowMyguidance,onthemshallcomenofear,norshalltheygrieve".Markthe'if'and'then'.TheSwahilitranslationisinconformitywithit;andcontainsthewords'Kama'

(If);and'Basi'(then).

Thesecondverseisinchapter20(Taha)verse123:TheQadianiEnglishtranslationisasfollows:He said, 'Go forth, both of you, fromhere, someof youbeing enemies of others.And if there

comestoyouguidancefromMe,thenwhosowillfollowMyguidance,hewillnotgoastray,norwillhecometogrief".Againthesame'If'and'Then'.AndagaininSwahilitranslationthesame'Kama'and'Basi'.Thesamenarrationhasbeenrepeatedinthatverseaddressedtothe"childrenofAdam".Anddoubtless

afterProphetAdamcountlessprophetsweresent tohischildren,andwithoutanydoubtand thosewhofollowedthemweresuccessful.Butwheredoesthisversesaythat'withoutdoubt'prophetswillcontinuetobesentalwaystilltheDayofJudgment,andevenaftertheHolyProphetofIslam?Ifyouponderuponthesethreetranslationsyouwillhavetoaskyourselfwhythesamewordingsinthe

sameeventandsamecontexthavebeentranslatedintwodifferentways.IsitnotaclearcaseoftwistingthemeaningofQur'antosuittheirownpurpose?ItisamusingtoseetheQadianitranslatorsoftheSwahilitranslation trying tosatisfy theirguiltyconsciencebywriting thefollowingfoot-noteunder thisverseoftheHolyQur’an."Thisversemayalsobetranslatedasfollows 'If(kama)Messengerscametoyou'.Accordingtothis

translation, this verse would not show whether prophets may or may not have come. It will be justlike the verse 37 of second chapterwhich says, 'if there comes. to you guidance fromme'…….Theword'Imma'ismeanttoshowthatifatanytimeamessengerofAllahappearsdonotfailtoaccepthim".

ContinuityofProphethood?

Alsohehadwritten:"Chapter 4 (An-Nisa’) verse 69 says: "AndwhosoobeysAllah and thisMessenger ofHis shall be

amongthoseonwhomAllahhasbestowedHisblessings,namely,theProphets,theTruthful,theMartyrsandtheRighteous.Andexcellentcompanionsarethese."Myreply:Herealsoyouhavegoneastraybecauseof thewrongSwahili translationof theQur'anpreparedby

your Mission. The word used in the verse is not (In) but which should be translated 'with'. Yourtranslator haswritten instead 'among'which iswrong. 'To bewith the prophets' does notmean 'to beprophet';otherwiseall thecompanionsof theHolyProphetwouldhavebecomeprophets,becausetheywerewiththeHolyProphet.Orwouldyousaythatthecompanionswerenot'obedienttoAllahandHisMessenger'?Togiveanotherexample:Ifamanlives'with'hisparents,doeshebecomehisownparent?Andevensupposingthatthetranslationiscorrect,howcanthisverseshowthattheprophethoodisto

begiventosomeoneafterMuhammadAl-Mustafa(S)?

AnImportantQuestion

WhatisthemeaningofthecontinuityofProphethood?Iwouldlikeyoutoponderuponthisquestion:What do youmean by your belief of the "continuity of prophethood?"Does itmean that theworld

cannotremainforasinglemomentwithoutaprophet?Ifso,thenwhowastheprophetafterthedeathoftheHolyProphetofIslamtillMirzaGhulamAhmadQadianiclaimedtobeaprophet?Or does this belief mean that the world cannot remain for a single moment without a religion

andShari'ahbroughtbyaprophet?Ifso,thenofcoursetheprophethoodofMuhammadAl-Mustafa(S)iscontinuingandwillcontinuetillthelastdayandthereisnoneedofanewprophet.

ImamMahdi(a.j.)a'Rasul'?

ThemostblatantlieistheQadianis'assertionthatTafseerSufisaysthatImamMahdi(a.j.)isaRasul.Nosuch blasphemous idea can ever enter into the mind of any Shia. But the Qadianis because of theircrookedmentalityarequiteunable tounderstandanysimple talkwithoutgetting itdistorted.Theverseunderdiscussionis:Itsmeaningisasfollows:·"It isHeWho sentHis Apostle withGuidance and Religion of Truth, to proclaim it over all

religionseventhoughthepagansmaydislikeit",(9:33).ThisverseisoneofthoseverseswhosecompletefulfillmentwasdelayedtilltheHolyProphetleftthis

world.TherearemanyverseswhosepromiseorordercameintoeffectaftertheHolyProphet.Takeforexample,verseNo.73ofthissamechapter(9,at-Tawbah)whichsays:"OProphet,wageJihad-religiouswar-againsttheunbelieversandthehypocritesandbehard

onthem".EverybodyknowsthattheHolyProphethadtowagewaragainsttheunbelievers;buthecouldnotdo

thesamewiththehypocrites,becauseofthecircumstances.Sohe,duringhislifetime,acteduponhalfoftheverse;whilethenexthalfwasfulfilledduringthedaysofAmirulMu'mineenAlibinAbiTalib(a.s.),who had to fight against the hypocrites. Referring to this, Imam Ja'afar Sadiq (a.s.) said (and I amquotingfromthesameTafseerSafi):"ThustheMessengerofAllah(S)foughtagainsttheunbelievers,andAlifoughtagainstthehypocrites.

Thus,AlididtheJihadoftheMessengerofAllah(S)".Likewise,inthisverseapromisewasgiventotheHolyProphetofIslam(S)(whoismentionedasHis

Messenger)that Islam would be victorious against all religions in spite of the discomfiture of theunbelievers.Butaseveryoneknows,thispromisewasnotfulfilledduring,thelife-timeoftheHolyProphet(S)asat

thattimetheIslamhadnotreachedoutsideArabia.ThetraditionsofTafseerSafisaythatthatpromisewillbefulfilledinthedaysofImamMahdi(a.j.)whoisalsoreferredtoas'Qa’imAli-Muhammad'.ThusTafseerSafinotes:"Qummi said: It was revealed in thematter ofQa’imAli-Muhammad;And (Qummi) said that it is

amongstthoseversesaboutwhichwehavetoldthatitsfulfillmentwillbedelayedfromitsrevelation".And inMajma'ul-Bayan a tradition is narrated from ImamMuhammad Baqir (a.s.) concerning this

versethat'thiswouldhappenatthetimeofappearanceofMahdi(a.j.)fromthefamilyofMuhammad(S).Thustherewouldremainnonebutwouldaccept(thetruth)ofMuhammad(S)·"And there is a tradition from Imam Ja'afar Sadiq (a.s.) about this verse. He said:

'When Qa’im, (Mahdi (a.j.) will appear there will be no pagan or unbeliever but would dislike hisappearance'.And it is recorded inMajma'ul-Bayan that theHolyProphet (S) said (mentioning the appearanceof

ImamMahdi):“TherewillnotremainanyhouseortentbutAllahwillbringIslamintoit”.AndthereisatraditionofImamMuhammadBaqir(a.s.)recordedinIkmalandTafseerofAyyashithat:

'OurQa’imwillbehelpedbyfear(hisenemieswillsurrendertohimbecauseoffear),restrengthenedwiththehelp(fromGod),theearthwillbefoldedforhim(i.e.,hewillreachatoncewhereverhewanttogo),andwillshowitstreasuresforhim;hisrulewillreacheastandwest;andthroughhimAllahwillmakeHisreligionvictoriousoverallreligions,thus,therewillbenoinhabitedareabutitwillbedeveloped(inhabited);andtheSpiritofAllah,Jesus,sonofMary,willcomedownandwillpraybehindhim".It is clear that these traditions refer to the fact that the promise given to theHoly Prophet of Islam

wouldbefulfilledduringthedaysofImamMahdi(a.j.);notthatImamMahdi(a.j.)willbesentasRasul!This is a very clear example of the cheating, twisting, puttingwords in other'smouth and crooked

tactics uponwhich theQadiani faith is based.Anybodywho reads their assertions in books and thencomparesthosereferenceswiththeoriginalbookscannotfailtofindnumeroussuchexampleshimself.Iwillnotbesurprisedifnow,afterreadingthat"AlididtheJihadoftheMessengerofAllah"theystart

tellingusthattheShiasbelievethatAli(a.s.)wasaprophet,especiallywhentheversebeginswiththeword"OProphet"!

12ChapterImamMahdi(a.j.)

NowthatwehavecometothepropheciesabouttheadventofImamMahdi(a.j.)andProphetJesus,son'ofMary(a.s.),it isadvisabletodescribethesesubjectsinsomedetail,becauseMirzaGhulamAhmadQadianiclaimednotonly tobeaprophetbutalso tobe ImamMahdi (a.j.) and Jesus - thusgiving theworldanotherexampleof3-in-1identities.In numerous traditions, appearance of ImamMahdi, then ofDajjal, then of Prophet Jesus have been

mentionedastheconfirmedsignsimmediatelybeforetheQiyamah(ResurrectionDay).As the Qadianis are very fond of quoting (out of context, of course) from writings of the Sufis

especially from Al-Yawaqeet wal-Jawahir of Sheikh Abdul Wahhab Sha'arani and Al-FutulatulMakkiyyah of SheikhMuhyiddinAl-Andalusi, Iwould prefer to quote from these two booksonlyonthissubject,toshowwhatthesetwoSufisbelievedSheikhAbdulWahhabSha'araniwritesinAl-Yawaqeetwal-Jawahir:Chaptersixtyfifth:toshowthatalltheconditionsofQiyamah(foretoldbytheHolyProphetS.)aretruth

andallofthemmustappearbeforecomingofQiyamah."And those signs are like appearance of Mahdi, then ofDajjal, then coming down of Jesus and

appearance of Dabba and rising of sun from its setting place and the Qur'an being taken up[20] andopeningofthebarrierofGogandMagog.Even if there was only one day remaining from (the age of) the world, all of these signs would

appearsurely.At that time the appearance of Mahdi (a.j.) should be expected; and he is the off-spring of Imam

HasanAl-Askari;hisbirth'(peacebeonhim)wasonthenightof15thSha'banintheyear255,andheisalivetillhemeetsJesus,sonofMary(a.s.).'Thushis(ImamMahdi's)ageatthistime(i.e.,theyear958Hijri)is703years".AndSheikhMuhyiddinwritesinAl-Futuhatul-Makkiyyah(Chapter366):"KnowthatMahdi(a.j.)(Allahhepleasedwithhim)mustappear.Buthewillnotappeartilltheworld

becomesfulloftyrannyandinjustice,thenhewillfillitwithjusticeandequality;andifthereisnomorethan one day remaining from the (age of the) world. Allah will make that long enough toenable thisCaliph to rule. And he (Imam Mahdi) is from the progeny of the Messenger of Allah (BlessingsandpeacefromAllahbeuponhim)fromthechildrenofFatimah(AllahbepleasedwithHer);hisfore-fatherisHussain,sonofAlibinAbiTalib.His father isHasanAl-Askari (son of ImamAliAl-Naqi, son of ImamMuhammadAl-Taqi, son of

Imam Ali Al Ridha, son of Imam Musa Al-Kadhim, son of Imam Ja'afar Al-Sadiq son of

ImamMuhammadAl-Baqir,sonofImamZainulAbedeenAli,sonofImamHusain,sonofImamAlibinAbi Talib; his name is the name of the Messenger of Allah (i.e. Muhammad); the Muslims will dohis 'Bay'at' (will declare their allegiance to him) between Rukn (i.e Yamani) andMaqam (-e·Ibrahim)(i.e.,inKa'aba).HewillbeliketheMessengerofAllah(BlessingandpeacefromAllahbeuponhim)inappearance,

andbelowhim incharacter,becausenobodycanbe like theMessengerofAllah (BlessingsandpeacefromAllahbeuponhim)incharacterasAllahsays:"Verilythouartongreatcharacter"HewilldistributethewealthequallyandwilldojusticetothepublicMorepeoplewillabstainfromsinbecauseofhisfearratherthanbecauseoftheQur'an.(Because of his blessings) amanwhowould be ignorant, coward andmiser in the eveningwould

become learned, brave and generous in themorning.Help (fromGod)willwalk in his front; hewillfollow the footstepsof theMessengerofAllah andhewill commitnomistake; therewill be an angelsupportinghimwithouthisseeinghim;hewillraiseuptheweary,helptheweak.Hisactionwillbeaccordingtohiswords,andhiswordsaccordingtohisdeedshewilldestroythe

injusticeandunjustandwillraisethereligionandwillputthelifebackintoIslam.Allah,throughhim,will strengthen the Islam after its dishonor and will make it alive after its death; he willrevokeJaziya(personaltaxpayablebynon-MuslimsinanIslamicstate)andwillcalltowardsAllahwithsword.Hewillmanifestthereligionasitisinreality,sothatiftheMessengerofAllah(Blessingandpeace

fromAllahbeuponhim)werealivewouldhaveconfirmedit.Thus,inhistimetherewillnotremainhutthereligionpurefrom(thepeople's)views."Jesus,sonofMary(a.s.),willcomedowntohimintheWhiteminaretintheeasternpartofDamascus

leaningupontwoangels(oneonhisrightside,theotheronhisleft)whenthepeoplewillbeintheprayerofAsr(afternoon);Jesusa.s.;willbreakthecrossandkilltheswineMahdi(a.j.)willdiecleanandpureandMahdi(a.j.)appearedinthe4thperiod(i.e.afterTabaeen)thenhewentintoseclusiontillcomestheknown(orappointedtime)".

AComparison

Now,letuscompareMirzaGhulamAhmadQadianisparticularswiththoseofImamMahdi:1.Genealogy: As SheikhMuhyiddin Ibn al-‘Arabi (and Sheikh AbdulWahhab Sha'arani in short)

wrote, ImamMahdi (a.j.) is the son of ImamHasanAl-Askariwhose genealogy he has recorded uptoAmirul-MumeneenAli binAbu-Talib (a.s.); and all his ancestors (up toAli binAbu-Talib) are thewell-knownfiguresofhistoryandaretheImamsoftheShiaIthna-asheris.'ThisspecificgenealogydoesnotleaveanyroomforMirzaGhulamAhmadQadianitoclaimthathe

wasthesaidMahdi.HewasGhulamAhmadsonofGhulamMurtazasonofAtaMuhammadsonofGulMuhammad.So far ashisorigin is concerned,he seems tomakevarious contradictory statements.Sometimeshe

claimedtobeaMongol;atotherstobeaChinese;sometimeshewasofPersianorigin,atothersofTurk.AndtheworldknowshimasaPunjabiIndian.2.DateandPlaceofBirth:ImamMahdi(a.j.)wasbornon15thSha'ban,255A.H.inSamarrainIraq;andintheyear958hisage·was703years.MirzaGhulamAhmadQadianiwasbornin1839or1840A.D.,i.e.,about1000yearsafterthebirthof

ImamMahdi(a.j.),andhedidnotliveevenupto76yearsasheclaimedtobepromisedbyGod.HewasborninQadianinIndia.3.RemovalofTyranny:ImamMahdi(a.j.)willremoveallthetyrannyandinjusticefromtheworld,

andwillfilltheearthwithjusticeandequity.AndaftertheadventofMirzaGhulamAhmadQadianiinjusticeandoppressionseemtoincreaseday

bydayinthisworld.4.HisAppearing:Muslimswilldo theBay 'atof ImamMahdi (a.j.)betweenRuknandMaqamof

Ka'aba.MirzaGhulamAhmaddidnotevenseetheRuknandMaqam.5.DistributionofWealth:ImamMahdi(a.j.)willdistributesomuchwealththatnobodywillremain

needyandnoonewillacceptthecharityanymore.MirzaGhulamAhmadQadiani,tillthelastdaysofhislife,dependeduponothersdonationsandcontributions.InthebeginningitweretheMuslimswhowereapproachedtocontributetowardsthepublicationofhis

books;intheenditwerehisfollowerswhoweretaxedtosupporthimandhisfamily.6.Infallibility: ImamMahdi (a.j.)willcommitnomistake.MirzaGhulamAhmad's life is fullof the

mistakesindeedsandbeliefs.7.Jihad: ImamMahdi (a.j.)will call towards thepathofAllahwith sword.MirzaGhulamAhmad

Qadiani abrogated and cancelled the Jihad (HolyWar) andmade the fighting in the cause of religionunlawful.8.Resultof theendeavor: In ImamMahdi's (a.j.) time,Allahwillmake Islamvictoriousoverall

religionsandtherewillnotremainbutIslam,purefromallblemishes.MirzaQadianislifecametoanendwithoutfulfillingthatimportanttask.During ImamMahdi's time, Islam will get strength. By the claim ofMirza Qadiani, Islam became

weakereventhanbefore.9.ComingofProphetJesus(a.s.):DuringthedaysofImamMahdi(a.j.)ProphetJesus,sonofMary

(a.s.)willcomedowntoassisthimandwillpraybehindhim.MirzaGhulamAhmadQadianicouldnotpersuadeProphetJesus(a.s.)tocomedown;soheclaimedtobeJesushimself.10. Eclipses: At the advent of ImamMahdi (a.j.) there will be lunar eclipse on the 1st night of

Ramadanandsolareclipseon15thnightofRamadan.Thissign,isyettoappear.11.SunrisefromWest:ThealmostlastofthesignsatthetimeofImamMahdi(a.j.)willbetherising

ofthesunfromitssettingplace.Afterthissign,theconversiontoIslamwillnotbeacceptable,norwillsuchconversionbeofanyavail.Thissignisyettoappear.12.Death:ImamMahdi(a.j.)willdiecleanandpure.MirzaGhulamAhmadQadianidiedofepidemic

cholerawhichisthedirtiestdisease.13.ImamMahdi'sConcealmentandre-appearance:Theabovequotationsmakeitclear thatImam

Mahdi (a.j.) son of ImamHasanAl-'Askari (a.s.) is concealed from the people after the death of hisfather; he is living and he will reappear and fill the world with justice and righteousness. His re-appearance is so certain that even if a single day is left before the endof theworld, that daywill beprolongedbyGodforhimtoappearandruletheworld.See: (1) Al-Yawaqeet wal-Jawahir Sheikh Abdul Wahhab Sha'ariini who is (according to him)

supported in this respect (a) by two saints viz.Sh.Hasan Iraqi andSh.Ali-ulKhawas, (b) bySheikhMuhyiddinIbnal-‘Arabiinthe336thChapterofFutuhat;(2)MukashafatHashiahNafahatbyMaulanaAliAkhbar Maududi (3) Shawahid-un-Nubuwwah by Maulana Jami; (4) Fasl-ul-Khitab by KhwajaMohammadParsa;(5)HashiaofFasl-ul-Khitabbytheauthorhimself;(6)KitabManaqib-wa-AhwaleAimma-e-At'har by Sh.AbdulHaqMohaddisDehlavi; (7)Rawzat-

ulAhbabby Jamal-ud-DinMohaddis; (8)TazkarahKhawas-ul-UmmahbySibt Ibn Jawzi; (9)Kitab-ul-BayanbyMohammadbinYusufKanjiShafii,whohasalsowrittenargumentsagainstthedoubtastothelengthofthelifeofImamMahdi;(10)Al-Fusul-ul-MohimmahbyNoor-ud-Din ibn-SabbaghMaliki; (11)Matalib-us-SuoolbyKamal-

ud-DinbinTalhaShafii;(12)Mir'at-ul-AsrarbyMaulanaAbdurRahmanSufi;(13)Barahin-e-SabatiahbyQaziJawadSabati.ThefulldetailsofthebirthofImamMahdi(a.j.)aregiveninthebooksnumber(3),(4)and(6)quoted

aboveandtheincidentswhichledtohisconcealmentinnumber(1),(3),(7)and(11).Shah Waliullah of Delhi in his two books (1) Musalsalat, well known as Fazl-ul-Mubin and (2)

Nawadir,hasreportedatraditionoftheProphetthrough"theImamofthepresentperiod,theconcealedImam,MohammadMahdi;sonoftheImamHasanAl-Askari".

Obviously,MirzaGhulamAhmadQadianicannotclaimthatanyofthesedetailscanfithiminanyway.14. Not a Follower of any other Muslim Scholar: Imam Mahdi (a.j.) will neither be a

followerinFiqh(TheIslamicLaws)ofanyotherpersonnorwillheactuponanalogies.Hissourceofknowledgewillbe fromGodanddirectcommunionwith theProphetof Islam,MuhammadAl-Mustafa(S).MirzaGhulamAhmadQadiani,ontheotherhand,followedtheFiqhofImamAbuHanifatillthelast

dayofhislife;andsodohisfollowersuptillnow,Therefore,MirzacannotclaimtobeImamMahdi.

Notes:[20]Takenup:ItmeansthattheHolyQur'anwillremainonlyinformandnotinspirit.Itwillcontinue

toremaininexistencebuttheinstructionsthereinwillnolongerbeputintopractice

13ChapterOtherSigns

AftertheappearanceofImamMahdi(a.j.),Qiyamah(TheDayofJudgment)willcomeverysoon.TheHolyProphet(S)hassaidthattensignswillappearbeforeQiyamah.HudhaifabinUsaidal-GhifarisaidthatoncetheHolyProphet(S)cametousandweweretalking.He

askeduswhatweweretalkingabout.Theysaid:"WearetalkingaboutQiyamah".TheHolyProphet(S)said:"Verily,itwillnotstand(itwillnotcome)untilyouseetensignsbeforeit.Thenthe(HolyProphet(S)described(1)TheSmoke;(2)andDajjal;(3)andDabbat’ul-Ardh;(4)andRisingoftheSunfromitssettingplace;(5)andComingDownofJesus,sonofMary;(6)andGogandMagog;(7)andthreeLand-slides,oneintheeast;(8)andanotherintheWest;(9)andoneintheArabianPeninsula;(10)andthelastof these signs will be a Fire which will appear from Yemen and will turn the people towardstheirMahshar(thegatheringplaceintheQiyamah)".ManyofthesesignsarementionedintheQur'an:·1.Smoke:"Soawait thedaywhen the sky shall giveout asmoke, clearly visible enveloping the

people:Thiswillbepainfulchastisement".(Qur'an,'44:10-11)2.Dabbat’ul-Ardh:"Andwhen theword shall come to pass on themWe shall bring forthunto

themawalkingonefromtheearthwhoshall speakunto themthat thepeoplebelievednot inoursigns".(27:82)ThatDabbat’ul-Ardhisreportedtobe'slappingtheSatan'(Tabarani:Mu'jam-ul·Kabir),andbranding

the people on their noses (Musnad Ahmad bin Hanbal from Abu Amama). That branding will be todifferentiatebetweenbelieversandunbelievers(TraditionsoftheImamsofAhlulBayt(a.s.).3.GogandMagog:"UntilareletloosetheGogandMagogandtheyshallhastenforthfromevery

elevation,andtheTruepromise(ofQiyamah)shalldrawnigh"(21:96-97).4.RisingofSunfromWestandDajjalareincludedinthisverse:"Onthedaywhencomesomeofthe

signs of thy Lord, its faith shall profit not a soul which believed not before or earned not goodthroughitsfaith;say'Waityou;verilywetooarewaiting'."(6:159).Abu Huraira said that the Holy Prophet said: "Qiyamah will not come till appear

impostorsDajjalsnearly30innumber,everyoneofthempretendingtobemessengerofGodandtilltheSun rises from its present place of setting (West);Thus,when the peoplewill see it, all of themwillaccept the true faith, and thatwill be the timewhenwill not benefit any soul its faithwhich had notbelievedfrombeforethattimeorwhichhadnotearnedgoodinitsbelief".(Jame'ulFawaid).2ndTradition:

"Therearethreesignswhentheyappear,itsfaithshallprofitnotasoulwhichbelievednotbeforeorearned not good through its faith: Rising of the Sun from its setting place, andDajjal, andDabbat’ul-Ardh".Inpresenceofsuchclearprophecieswhichsurelyhavenotappearedyet,thepatheticattemptsofthe

Qadianistotwistthem,misinterpretthem,discreditthem,rejectthem,orinanywaytomakethemmeanwhattheydomean,isreallyveryamusing.TheybelievethatMirzaGhulamAhmadQadianiwastheImamMahdi;butnotasingleSignsamongst

thesetensignshasappearedyet.TheQadianishavenottriedtofittheSignsofSmoke,threeland-slidesandtheFireofYemenonsomeincidentssofar.Buttheypatheticallytrytotwistthemeaningsofallothersigns.

Dabbat’ul-Ardh

ForexampletheysaythatDabbat’ul-Ardh(TheWalkeroftheEarth)means'evilreligiousscholarsoftheMuslims'whorejectedMirzaQadianisclaim.PerhapstheydidnotknowthatDabbat’ul-ArdhwillbeaJudgetobrandeveryunbelieverandhealsowillslapSatan.IftheMuslimscholarswhobrandedMirzaQadianiaskafir(unbeliever)arethat'WalkerontheEarth",thenMirzaQadianiwaseitheranunbelieverortheSatan!

SunrisefromWest

Qadianissay:ThesignofImamMahdi(a.j.)thatthesunwillrisefromtheWest,doesnotmeanthatthissunofourworldwillrisefromWestinsteadofEast.ItmeansthatthelightofIslamwillreachtheWest.Facts:Thetraditionsaysthatthesunwillrisefromwest;whilethisinterpretationmeansthatthesun

willreachtowest.Thisinterpretationwouldhavebeencorrectifthetraditionwouldhavesaidthatthesunwouldreachthewest.Moreover,the,fulltraditionshowsthatthiswillbethelastofthesignsbeforetheDayofQiyamah,and

that after itsappearance, conversion by non-Muslims to Islam would be of no use. So naturally thissigncannotmeanthe"spreadofIslam",asthe'Qadianispretend.

LunarandSolarEclipses

Qadianissay:ThesignofthesolarandlunareclipsesinthemonthofRamadanwerefulfilledintheyear1894AD.(SeeSafinae-Nuh).Facts:Thetraditionmentionedisthis:"TherewillbelunareclipseonthefirstnightofRamadanandsolareclipseinthemiddleofthemonth."ThissignwillbeanextraordinarysignfromGod;becausemooneclipsealwaysoccursbetween13th

and15thnightsof the lunarmonth(but the traditionsays that itwilloccuron thefirstnight),andsolareclipsealwaysoccursattheendofthelunarmonth,i.e.,28thto30thdaysofthelunarmonth,whenmoonisnotvisible(butthetraditionsaysthatitwillbeeclipsedon15thdayofRamadan,whenthemoonisfullyvisible).Nowwhatwasthefactoftheeclipsesof1894?Thesuneclipsedasusualonthe28thRamadan,noton

the 15th Ramadan (as the tradition says) and the moon eclipse was, as usual, on the 13th night ofRamadan,andnotonthefirstnightasthetraditionsays.See Zamima-e-Anjame-Atham pages 46-48, which was written by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Qadiani

himself.IftheQadianiswanttobelievethat1=13and15=28,theyarewelcometoit.Bytheway;if'1'canbe

equalto13,whycan'titbeequalto'3',asthebelieversin3-in-lsay?LateMolwiSayyidBarkatAli,GoshaNashin,ofWazirabad(India)writesinhisbookFalseProphetof

Qadian"(p.135):"Anotherpointshouldbenotedinconnectionwiththis.Theseeclipsesshouldhavetakenplacebefore,

and not after the advent of the Mahdi. The occurrence of the solar and the lunar eclipses is not anuncommonphenomenoneveninthemonthofRamadan.Sucheclipseshavetakenplacemanytimesevenbeforethis."Many books as Ghayat.ul-Maqsoud; Ibne· Khallekan, Asl-i-Musaffa, Hidayah Mahdi, Hadith ul-

Ghashiah,Mahdi (a.j.)Nama,Tarikh-i-Ahmad and the like, show that in the followingHijri years thesolarandthelunareclipsestookplaceinoneandthesamemonth:62,63,85,92,107;108,132,152,241,242,285,286,308,508,509,531,553,554,687,688,731,732,776,911,954,959,1088,1133,1134,1200,1210,1222,1223,1267,1312."TheMirzaproclaimedhisso-calleddivinemissioninHijri1308,butthesolarandthelunareclipses

tookplaceinthemonthofRamadanin1311.TheseeclipsescannothelptheMirza".

14ChapterJesus,SonofMary(a.s.)

Afterappearanceof ImamMahdi (a.j.)and thatofDajjal,Prophet Jesus, sonofMary (a.s.) is tocomedowntohelpImamMahdi(a.j.).QadianimissionariestrytomisleadtheMuslimmassesbyquotingthetraditionsinwhichthereappearanceofProphetJesus,sonofMaryhasbeenforetold.They say that Prophet Jesus was aNabi and still his reappearance is not against the belief of the

Finalityof theProphethoodofProphetMuhammadAl-Mustafa(S).ThustheFinalityofProphethoodisalsoafact,andinspiteofthatFinalitytheadventoftheprophetMessiahisalsoafact.After that, they say that the promisedMessiah does not refer to Prophet Jesus, son ofMary (a.s.)

becauseheisalreadydeadandthetraditionswhichforetellthecomingofthepromisedMessiah'refertoa'likenessofMessiah'.ThethirdstepistoclaimthatMirzaGhulamAhmadQadianiwasthat'LikenessofJesus,sonofMary

andtherefore,thebeliefinhisProphethoodisnotcontrarytothebeliefoftheFinalityoftheProphethoodofProphetMuhammadAl-Mustafa(S).ItmustbementionedherethattheClaimthatProphetJesus(a.s.)isdeaddoesnoteffectthecommon

Muslimbelief thathewillcomeagainbefore theendof theworld tohelpImamMahdi(a.j.)Akheruz-zaman(a.s.);becauseevenifweacceptforthesakeofargumentthatProphetJesus(a.s.) isdead,GodisPowerfulenoughtomakehimalivesecondtimeandsendhimtohelpImamMahdi(a.j.)beforetheendoftheworld.AsthequestionoflifeordeathofProphetJesus(a.s.)hasnomaterialeffectontheMuslimbelief,Ipromisedtoleavethistopicoutfromthissmallbooklet.Now,letuslookattheothersuppositionoftheQadianis.Itwillbehelpfultolookatsometraditions

fromtheauthenticSunnibooks,whichhavebearingonthistopic:"AbuHurairasaidthattheHolyProphetsaid:'IswearbyAllahinWhosehandismysoul,surelywill

comedowntoyouthesonofMary,asajustruler;thenhewillbreakthecrossandkilltheswineandwillstopthewar(orasinsomeothertraditions,willrevoketheJaziya-thepersonaltax)andtherewillbesomuch wealth that nobody (be needy enough to) accept any charity and for the people, one Sajda(prostration)forAllahwillbebetterthanthewholeworldanditscontents.(Bukhari,KitabAhadithil-Anbiya,BabuNuzule IsabinMariyam;MuslimBabuNuzule Isa;Tirmizi,

Abwabul-Fitan,BabuNuzuleIsa;MusnadAhmadbinHanbal,MarwiyyatuAbiHuraira).Itisbettertoexplainthesignificanceofbreakingthecross,killingtheswineandrevokingtheJaziya.AseverybodyknowsthewholestructureofChristianityisbaseduponthebeliefthatGodcausedthe

death-acurseddeath-oncrosstoHisonlysonwhobecamea'Kaffara'(Atonementforthehereditarysinofmankind);andthepeculiarityofChristianityamongallthereligionsbroughtbythepreviousprophetsisthattheyputthewholeemphasisonfaithandabrogatedthelawsomuchsothattheystartedeatingeventheporkwhichwasstrictlyforbiddeninTorah.WhenProphetJesus(a.s.)willcomedownandwillannouncethatneitherwasheasonofGodnorwas

hecrucifiedonanycrossnorwashemadeanatonementforanyone'ssin,thewholestructureofpresentdayChristianitywillbedemolished.Andlikewise,whenhewouldexplainthathedidneverallowhisfollowers to abrogate the Law and to eat the pork and treat the Shariah as abrogated, the secondpeculiarityofChristianitywillcometoanend.Thusthewords'willbreakthecrossandwillkilltheswine'denotethefactthattheChristianityasa

religionwill be abolished; therewill be no basis for its peculiar faith nor for its peculiar deeds andbehavior.Likewisethewords"hewillrevokeJaziyameanthatthedifferencesofreligionswillcometoanend;everybodywillcomewithinthepaleofIslam;therewillbenoneedforanywartodefendIslamnoranybodywillbeliabletopayJaziya.Thus,allthesewordingspointtothefactthatthewholeworldwillcomewithinthecircleofIslam.AbuHurairasaidthattheHolyProphetsaid:"QiyamahwillnotcomeuntilJesus;sonofMary(a.s.)comesdown".Thenthesamethingshavebeen

mentionedasintheprevioustradition(BukhariKitabulMalahim,BabuKasrisalib;IbnuMajah,KitabulFitan,BabuKhurujiddajjal)."AbuHurairasaidthattheHolyProphetsaid:'WhatwillbeyourconditionwhenthesonofMarywill

comedowntoyouandyourImamwillbefromamongstyou'.(Bukhari, Kitab Ahadithil Anbiya, BabuNuzule Isa;Muslim BabuNuzu1e Isa;MusnadAhmad bin

HanbalMarwiyyatuAbiHuraira).ThisreferstothefactthatProphetJesus(a.s.)willnotleadintheprayer,buttheImamoftheMuslims

whowillleadingthemwillleadintheprayers,andProphetJesuswillfollowhim."AbuHurairasaidthattheMessengerofAllahsaid:'Jesus,sonofMarywillcomedownthenhewill

killtheswine,andwilldestroythecrossandtheprayerswillbejoinedforhim,andhewilldistributesomuch wealth that there will remain nobody in need of it, and he will revoke the revenue and rent,andwillstayatRauha(35milesfromMedina),andwilldofromthereHajjorUmratogether.(ThedoubtisfromtheRawi(narrator)whodidnotremembertheexactwordingoftheHolyProphet)'.(MusnadAhmad,MarwiyyatuAbiHuraira;Muslim,KitabulHajj,BabuJawaz-tamattufil-Hajjewal-

Queran).Abu Huraira said (after mentioning the appearance ofDajjal) that the Messenger of God said:

'MeanwhilewhentheMuslimswillbemakingpreparationtofighthimandwillbearrangingtheirlines,andIqama(establishmentofPrayer)willhavebeenrecitedfortheprayerwhenJesus,sonofMarywillcomedownandwillleadtheMuslimsintheprayers.AndtheenemyofAllah,i.e.,Dajjal,willstartdissolvingasthesaltisdissolvedinwater;andifJesus

(a.s.)weretoleavehimashewas,hewilldissolvebyhimself,butAllahwillkillhimonhis(Jesus's)hand,andhewillshowtheMuslimshisbloodinhisspear.

(Mishkat,BabulMalahim,withreferencetoMuslim)."AbuHuraira said that theMessengerofAllah said: 'There is noprophet betweenmeandhim, i.e.

between Muhammad and Jesus (a.s.) and he is surely to come down. When you see him you willrecognizehim:heisamanofmiddleweight,ofblondcolorbetweenredandwhite,hewillbewearingtworobesofyellowcolor;andthehairofhisheadwilllookasthoughwaterwilldropfromitthoughitwillnotbewet,hewill fightpeople for Islam,will shatter thecross,willkill theswine,willabolishtheJaziya,andAllahwillremoveallotherreligionsinhistime;hewillkillDajjal,andwillremainaliveforfortyyears;thenhewilldieandMuslimswillofferprayeroverhisJanaza(funeral).(AbuDawood,Kitabul-Malahim,BabuKhurujiddajjal;MusnadAhmadbinHanbal,MarwiyyatuAbi

Huraira)."Jabir bin Abdullah said that I heard theMessenger of Allah saying: 'then will come down Jesus,

sonofMary:theImamof theMuslimswill requesthimtocomeforwardand lead theprayers,buthewillsay,No,youaretheLeadersofoneanother,becauseofthehonorgivenbyAllahtothisUmmah".(Muslim Bayanu Nuzule Isa bin Mariyam, Musnad Ahmad bin Hanbal, Marwiyyatu Jabir bin

Abdullah)."JabirbinAbdullahsaidthatUmarbinKhattabrequestedtheMessengerofAllahtoallowhimtokill

him(Ibn'Sayyad).ButtheMessengerofAllahrepliedthatifthisishe(i.e.Dajjal)thenyouarenot theonetokillhim;hewillbekilledbyJesussonofMaryonlyandifheisnotthatmanthenyouhavenorighttokillapersonwhoisprotectedbyus.(Mishkat,Kitabul-Fitan,BabuQissatiibnSayyi'd,withreferenceofSharhus-sunnahImamBaghawi).JabirbinAbdullahsaidthattheMessengerofAllahsaidthatthenallofasuddenJesus,sonofMary

willcomeamongtheMuslimsandprayerwillbearrangedandhewillbetold,"OSpiritofAllah,comeforward".Buthewillsay,"No,yourImamshouldleadyouintheprayers."ThenafterthemorningprayerMuslimswillcomeouttofightDajjal.When that liarwill seeProphet Jesus (a.s.)hewill startdissolvingas saltdissolves inwater.Then

ProphetJesuswilladvancetowardshimandkillhim;andatthattimeeventhetreeandstonewillstartcalling him, "O Spirit of Allah, this, Jew is hiding behind me". Thus there will be none among thefollowersofDajjalbuthe(Jesusa.s.),willkillhim".(MusnadAhmad,MarwiyyatuJabirbinAbdullah).NawwasbinSam'anKilabisays(inthestoryofDajjal)thatatthetime(whenDajjalwillbedoinghis

mischief)AllahwillsendMessiah,sonofMary;andhewillcomedownontheeasternsideofDamascus,nearthewhiteminaret,wearingtwoclothesofyellowcolor,keepinghishandsonthearmsoftwoangels;whenhewillbowdownhishead,itwillseemasthoughthedropsaredroppingfromhishead,whenhewillraisehisheadthedropswilldroplikepearls;wheneverhisbreathwillreachtoanunbeliever(andthatwillreachtothefurthestlimitofhiseyesight)thatunbelieverwilldieatonce,thenthesonofMarywillchaseDajjalandwillcatchhimatthegateofLudd(presentday'sLod,nearTelAviv,Israel,thereisanAirForcebaseofIsraelnowadays)andwillkillhim.(Muslim,Dhikruddajjal;AbuDawood,Kitabul-Malahim,BabuKhurujidDajjal;Tirmizi,Abwabul-

Fitan,BabuFitnatidDajjal;IbnuMajah,Kitabul-Fitan,BabuFitnatiddajjal).AbuAmamaBahilinarrates(inalongtraditionaboutDajjal)thatwhile their(Muslims)Imamwould

havecomeforwardtoleadthemorningprayer,Jesus,sonofMary,willcomedownamongthemandtheImamwill retreat togetJesusforwardbutJesuswillputhishandbetweenhisshouldersandwillsay,"No,youshouldleadtheprayerbecauseithasbeenestablishedforyou".Sohewillleadtheprayer.Afterfinishingtheprayer,Prophet,Jesus(a.s.)willsay,"Openthedoor".Thedoorwillbeopened.On theoutside,Dajjalwith seventy thousandwell-armed Jewswill bepresent to fight them. 'When

ProphetJesus(a.s.)willlookathim,hewillstartdissolvingassaltdissolvesinwater;andhewillflee.ProphetJesus(a.s.)willsay"Ihavefortheeanattackwhichthoucanstescape".ThenhewillcatchhimattheeasterngateofLudd(Lod);AllahwilldefeattheJews;thefaceofEarthwillbefulloftheMuslims,as a water-pot is filled with water. The whole world will recite the Kalemah and none will beworshippedbutAllah".The sameevents arenarrated inothernumerous traditions inMusnadAhmad,Tabarani,Hakimiand

everywhere thewordsused are 'Jesus sonofMarywill comedown'.Andanybodywhowill read thetraditionswillseethatthereisnohintofany'promisedMessiah','likenessofMessiah',or'appearanceofMessiah'.Andthereisnochanceforanybody,beingborn1810yearsafterJesus,sonofMary,fromthewombofhismotherandloinofhisfathertoclaimthathewasJesussonofMary.

15ChapterConclusionfromtheseTraditions

Allthesetraditionsinveryclearwordsare"foretellingtheadventofProphetJesus"sonofMary(a.s.)whowasbornfromthewombofMarywithoutanyfather,some2000yearsago.AsItoldearlier,itservesnopurposetoarguewhetherheisdeadoralive.Evenifheisdead,when

AllahwantstobringhimdownatthetimeoftheappearanceofImamMahdiAkheruz-zaman(a.j.).Heispowerfulenoughtobringhimbacktolife.ThesecondthingwhichshouldbecleareventoablindisthatImamMahdi(a.j.)andProphetJesus

(a.s.)aretwopersonsnotone.ButMirzaGhulamAhmadQadianiclaimedtobeImamMahdi(a.j.)andJesus,sonofMary,bothtogether.Theyalwaysproclaimasupposedtraditionthat'ThereisnoMahdi(a.j.)exceptJesus'But those very authors who have recorded it have declared it to be a forgery, Sheikh

SuleimanBarahiQanduziquotesinhisbook"Yanabi-ul-Mawaddah",fromJawahir-ul-IqdainofSamhudi:'Samhudiwrites:"AndthetraditionofHasanBasrifromAnasbinMalik:Theconditionwillgetfrombadtoworse;the

worldwillbe in theworst state,miserlinesswillbemostprevalentamong the,people;Qiyamahwilloccurwhen theworstof thepeoplewillbeexisting.Mahdi(a.j.) isnoother (person)butJesussonofMaryhasbeennarratedbyShafeiandbyIbnMajahinhisSunanandbyHakiminhisMustadrak;and,he(Hakim)hassaid:"lhavenarratedthistraditionthinkingitridiculous,notthatIthinkitauthentic"."AndBaihaqihassaidthat:'ThistraditionisnarratedonlybyMuhammadbinKhalid;andHakimsaid

thathewasunknownandNasaihasclearlysaidthathewasunacceptable;andIbnMajahsaidthatnobodyhasnarrateditfromMuhammadbinKhalidexceptShafei".Then the author of Yanabi-ul-Mawaddah has given three clear proofs showing that this tradition is

nothingbutforgery.Now,theattemptsofMirzaQadianiandhisfollowerstomakeMahdi(a.j.)andJesusoneandthesame

persononthestrengthofthisforgedtraditionisjustpathetic.Thosewhowroteitintheirbooksrefuteditas being unauthentic, forged and based on the authority of someone who is either non-entity orunacceptable.AndcompareitwithhundredsoftraditionswhichclearlyshowthatImamMahdi(a.j.)andJesussonof

Mary are two separate identities. Can anyone in his right senses say that all those hundredsofauthentictraditionshouldbediscardedforoneforgedtraditionjusttoprovethatMirzaGhulamAhmadwasMahdi(a.j.)andMessiahbothinoneChristians3-in-lgod?

ThethirdthingwhichiscleartothesamedegreefromthesetraditionsisthatProphetJesussonofMary

willcomeinthesecondappearanceasaNabi.Therewillnotbeanyrevelationtohim;hewillnotbringanynewmessage;noranewShariah;hewillnotaddorsubtractanythingfromtheShariahofMuhammad;hewillnotrenewtheShariahofMuhammadinthisworld;hewillnotcallpeopletobelieveinhim;hewillnotmakeaseparateummahofhisfollowers.Hewillbesentdownjustonespecialduty;thatwillbetoannihilatetheFitna(sedition)ofDajjal.He

willcomedownforthispurpose,insuchamannerthattheMuslimsamongstwhomhewillcomedown,willhavenodoubtthatheistheJesus,sonofMarywhoseadventwasforetoldbyProphetMuhammadAl-Mustafa(S).Hewillmingle in theJama'atof theMuslims, andwill follow Imamof theMuslimsandwill keep

forwardthesameImamMahdi(a.j.)whowillbetheImamoftheMuslimsatthattime,sothatnobodymayentertaintheideathathehascomebackinhispreviouspositionofanUlul-AzmProphet.WhenhewillcomeandjointheJama'atof theMuslimsasacommonMuslimhewillautomatically

demonstrate thathehasnotcomeasaprophet tocall thepeople tobelieve inhim.Anditwasfor thisreason that all theMuslimauthorshaveexpressly said that the secondadventofProphet Jesus, sonofMaryisnotagainstthebeliefintheFinalityoftheProphethoodofProphetMuhammadAl-Mustafa(S).Hissecondcomingwillbe just like thepresenceofapreviouspresidentofacountry in thecountry

duringthetenureoftheofficeoftherulingpresident.Ifhehelpsthepresentpresidentontheorderofthelatter,nobodywillsaythatthepreviouspresidentisactinginthecapacityofthepresidentofthecountry.If a previous president helps the ruling president, it is not deemed as challenging the validity of thepresidencyofthepresentpresident.Of course, if that previous president were to try to usurp the office of the present president, or if

somebody was to reject even the previous presidency of the ex-president, it would be tantamount totreason. But if nobody rejects or refutes the previous validity of the ex-president, and if that ex-presidentisnotcallingpeopletosweartheirallegiancenowtohim,nobodycansaythatjustbyhelpingthepresentpresident,theex-presidentisbreakingthetenureoftheofficeoftherulingpresident.Thus, if Prophet Jesus (a.s.) during his second advent were to callpeople to believe in him or if

somebody was to reject even his previous prophethood, it will be against the Islamic belief. But asProphetJesus(a.s.)atthattimewillnotcallpeopletobelieveinhim,theMuslimswillnotberequiredtobelieveinanewNubuwwah(Prophethood).TheywillberequiredtokeepthesamebeliefinhispreviousNubuwwah(Prophethood)whichtheydo

haveeven todayandwhichevenProphetMuhammadAl-Mustafa (S)hadhad.Thushissecondcomingwillnotaffect theKhatman-Nubuwwah (Finalityof theProphethood)neither todaynor in thedays tocome.The fourth thing which is clear from these traditions and other numerous similar traditions is

thatDajjal,whowillbeannihilatedduringthesecondadventofProphetJesus(a.s.),willbefromamongtheJews,andwillpresenthimselfasMessiah.

ItisnecessarytomentionthatafterthedeathofProphetSolomon,BaniIsrael'shistorygoesfromonefiascotoanother.Atlast,afterthecaptivityinBabyloniaandSyria,theywerescatteredeverywhere;andtheirprophetsgavethemgoodtidingsthataMessiahwastocomefromGodwhowouldsavethemfromdishonoranddisgrace.So,theywereawaitingaMessiahwhoaccordingtotheirthinkingwastobeaking,whowastofight

wars, conquering countries, gathering Israelites from all over the world, and bringing themwithin Palestine, establishing a very great, strong and powerful kingdom of the Jews. Against theirexpectations,ProphetJesus,sonofMary,camefromGod;theydidnotaccepthimasMessiahashewasnotaking,hedidnotestablishanykingdomneitherstrongnorweaksotheyrefutedhisclaimandtriedtokillhim.Thenceforth,alltheJewsintheworldareawaitingtheexpectedMessiah,hopingthathewouldbea

martialandpoliticalleaderwhowillestablishaJewishKingdomfromNiletoEuphratesandwillcollectall the Jews in that land which they believe is theirs by inheritance. Now if somebody looks at theconditionofMiddleEasttodayandstudiestheabove-mentionedpropheciesoftheHolyProphetofIslam,hewillfeelthatthestageiswellpreparedfortheappearanceofthatDajjalwhowouldclaimtobethepromisedMessiahoftheJews.Muslims have already been turned out of a bigger part ofPalestine and a Jewish state has been

established in thenameofIsrael.Theworld'sJewsarecomingtoreside in thatstateand thanks to theWesternpowers,itisnowapowertoreckonwith.TheZionistshavedeclaredopenlythattheywanttoreclaimthelandsoftheirinheritanceandthemapswhichtheyhavepublishedofthefutureJewishstateencirclethewholeofSyria,Jordan,Lebanon,almostwholeofIraqandsomepartsofTurkey,Egypt,thedeltaofNileandthepartsofSaudiArabiaincludingKhaiberandMedina.Itdoesnotrequiregreatintelligencetorealizethatifinfutureaworldwarisstarted,theJewswilltry

tocapturetheselands.AtthattimeDajjalwillappearclaimingtobethatpromisedMessiah;andastheHolyProphet(S)said,atthattimeMuslimswillundergosuchhardshipsanddisastersthatonedaywillappearlikeoneyear.ForthisreasonhetoldhisUmmahtoseektherefugewithGodfromthisFitnaofDajjal.Andtofight

againstthatimpostorMessiah,AllahwillnotsendanylikenessofMessiahbutthesameoriginalMessiahwhotwothousandyearsagowasrejectedbythesameJewsandwhomthey,accordingtotheirthinkinghecrucifiedanddestroyed; theplaceofcomingdownof thatoriginalMessiahwillnotbeIndia,AfricaorPakistan;butDamascus,becauseitwillbeatthatplacethatfightingwillbegoingonatthattime.AndthatimpostorMessiahwillenterSyriawithanarmyof70,000Jews,andwillreachnearDamascus.Exactly at that crucial time, Prophet Jesus, son of Mary will come down on the eastern part

of Damascus near the white minaret. And after the morning prayer, will lead the Muslims tofightagainstDajjalandDajjalwill fleeawayfromhisattackandat lastProphetJesuswillcatchhimnearthegateofLudd(Lod)andhewillbekilled.ThentheJewswillbekilledandJudaismwillvanish.Likewisethepresent-dayChristianitywillcome

toanendbythedeclarationofProphetJesus(a.s.).AllreligionswillmergeintoIslam.So it is clear from all these traditions that the prophecies of theHoly Prophet (S) do not entertain

theideaofanylikenessofMessiahortheappearanceofMessiah;butthesameMessiahwhowasrejectedbytheJewsandwhowillbringtheJewsaswelltheChristianstotherightpathbyhelpingImamMahdi(a.j.)Akheruz-zaman;andthusthewholeworldwillgatherunderthebannerofIslamandwillreciteoneKalema"LaIlahaIllallahMuhammadunRasulallah".

AComparisonAgain

Apartfromthatgeneralreview,letuscomparesomeoftheparticularsofProphetJesus,sonofMarywiththoseofMirzaGhulamAhmadQadiani toseewhatjustificationhehadinclaimingtobethe 'promisedMessiah':1.Genealogy:ProphetJesusalwaysbeenmentionedinthesetraditions(someofwhichbeginwiththe

oathinthenameofAllah)as'Jesus,sonofMary'.AccordingtoMirzaQadianihimself,"theoathprovesthat thenews is tobe takenat its apparentmeaningand there isno interpretationor exception". (VideHamamat-ul-Bushra,p.14).Itmeansthatthesetraditionsaretobetakenattheirface-value.WhentheysayJesussonofMarythey

domean Jesus, sonofMary; they cannot refer toGhulamAhmad sonofGhulamMurtaza andChiraghBibi.2. Minaret of Damascus: Prophet Jesus (a.s.) will come down at the eastern

minaretDamascusmosque,MirzaQadianiwasborninQadian,andneversethisfootinDamascus[21].3.FollowingtheImamoftheMuslims:ProphetJesus(a.s.)willnotcallpeople to followhimand

will not establish any newUmmah.GhulamAhmadQadiani called the people to believe in him andestablishedaseparateUmmahofhisfollowers.4. Killing of Dajjal: Prophet Jesus (a.s.) will kill theDajjal,at the gate of Ludd (Lod), which is

situatedinpresentday'sIsrael.MirzaGhulamAhmadQadianisaidthatDajjalmeans theBritishnation.Andthen,insteadofdestroyingtheBritish,hemadetheobediencetotheirtyrannicalruleandintegralpartofhisreligion.5.Hajjand/orUmrah:ProphetJesus(a.s.)willperformHajjorUmrahorwillcombineboth.Mirza

GhulamAhmadQadianididnotevenseetheKaba,letalonetheHajjorUmrah.6.Death:ProphetJesus(a.s.)willdiebetweenMeccaandMedina.MirzaGhulamAhmadQadianidid

notevenenterthelandofHejaz.HediedatLahore.7.Burial:ProphetJesus(a.s.)willbeburiedintheroominwhichisburiedtheHolyProphetofIslam

(S).MirzaGhulamAhmadQadianiisburiedinQadian.8.TwoYellowRobes:ProphetJesus(a.s.)atthetimeofhiscomingdownwillbewearingtwoyellow

robes.MirzaGhulamAhmadQadianisaysinthisconnection:"(TheHolyProphetofIslam)hadsaidthatMessiah(Thewordusedinthetraditionis 'Jesus,sonofMarynotMessiah'),atthetimeofhiscomingdownfromskywillbewearingtwoyellowrobes.'Thus,Ihavetwodiseases:oneoftheupperpartofthebody;i.e.'Miraq',andanotheroflowerpart,i.e.,diabetes(Dairy.ofMirzaQadiani;AkhbarBadr,Vol.2;No;23,dated·7/6/1906).'Miraq' is a type of 'Malikhulia' (Melancholia) which is a type of insanity; andMirza Qadiani in

variousplaceshasdeclaredhimselfMiraq'.Itwasnotanacquisitionlaidagainsthimbyhisenemies.ItwasafactacceptedbyMirzahimself.NowletusseewhatarethesymptomsofMalikhulia:

"In somepatients this abnormality reaches a stagewherehe thinkshimself to beknowing the future

eventsandunseen things,andmany timesprophesiesof futurehappenings,andsomepatients think thattheyareangels".(Sharh-ul-Asbabwal'amatbyBurhanuddinNafis)."Mostofthefanciesofthepatientconcernthatfieldofworkinwhichhewasengagedduringhishealth.

Forexample,ifthepatientisalearnedmanheclaimstobeaprophetandclaimstoshowmiracles,talksofdivinityandpreachesaccordingly.(Iksir-e-A'zam,Vol.1p.l88;byHakimMuhammadAzadKhan).Dr. Shah Nawaz (one of' the followers of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Qadiani) wrote in Review of

Religions(August,1926):"If it is proved about a claimant of revelation that he was suffering from Hysteria

orMaliklhulia(Melancholia)orEpilepsy,thennootherblowisneededtorefutehisclaim;becauseitissuchablowwhichknocksoutthebuildingofhistruthfromitsfoundation".(ThereferenceistakenfromMuhammadiyyaPocketBook).Anyhow,apartfromthefactthatapersonsufferingfromMiraqormelancholiacannotbeaprophet,let

usseewhatother'likenesstoJesus,sonofMary'thiscomparisonshows:Prophet Jesus (a.s.) cured the sick people. And that was his miracle. HereMirza Ghulam Ahmad

QadianclaimstobeJesus,sonofMarybyshowingthatheissufferingfromMiraqandDiabetes!And according toQadiani interpretation, coming down of Prophet Jesus (a.s.)means the birth of a

'likenesstoMessiah'.Well,MirzaGhulamAhmadwasnotwearingtwoyellowrobes(or,forthatmatter,anyrobe)atthetimeofhisbirth.All these comparisons, explanations and admissions show that Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Qadianis

particularsdonotfittheparticularsofProphetJesus,sonofMary(a.s.)whichhavebeenmentionedinthetraditionsoftheHolyProphet.ThushisclaimtobealikenessofJesus,sonofMary(a.s.)isprovedtobeasbaselessaswashisclaim

tobetheImamMahdi(a.j.),oraprophet.

Notes:[21] A Qadiani chief missionary once wrote: “In Damascus, at a place called Karbala, Seyyidina

Husseinwaswartyredbyso-calledMuslims.KadianisexactlyontheeastofDamascusandatthesamelatitude- Kadian is given the name of a place where an innocent Imam was martyred.” (A LivelyDiscussion). This “highly qualified” chief missionary of Qadians thinks that Karbala is “ a placeinDamascus”. I think this revelation isbeyondanycomment, IfKarbala’ is inDamascus, thenTokyoisinLondon,andDar-es-SalaamisinCairo!

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