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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Muhammad (S) is the Last Prophet Nubuwwah without new Shari’ah Concerning the last tradition mentioned in the previous chapter, the Qadiani missionary had written to me: "Imam Muhammad Tahir Gujrati has written in his Takmila Majma-ul-Bihar (p.85) that meaning of is that no such prophet will come after me who will abrogate my Shari'ah" I wrote in reply: "First of all, all such writers refer to the second coming of Prophet Jesus; son of Mary (a.s.) who's Nubuwwah (Prophethood) was some 600 years before the advent of our Holy Prophet.

They mean that if a previous prophet re-appears after the Holy Prophet it is not against the 'Finality of Prophethood', because even when he will come he will follow the Shari'ah of our Holy Prophet.

Not only this; he will refrain even from leading the prayers, and will pray behind the Imam of the Muslims, Thus he will live just like other Muslims - he will not call people to believe in his own Nubuwwah; he will not bring any revelation; he will not establish any new community, separate from all the Muslims. 'Khatam un-Nabiyyin' has closed the door of prophet hood so far as the newcomers are concerned.

But it has not stripped the previous Prophets of their prophethood, this meaning has clearly been written in 'Mishkat-ul-Masabih' in a note under the wording of the Holy Prophet "and the prophets were ended with me" which says "i.e. creation of the prophets; thus no prophet will be created after me. This edition of Mishkat was printed in 1307 A.H., long before the claim of prophethood by Mirza Qadiani.

So you must understand that the Muslim writers do not say that a new prophet can come after the Holy Prophet, calling the people to believe in himself. When they say Isa bin Mariam they do mean Isa bin Mariam; they do not even dream of any Masil (likeness) of Masih or any Ghulam Ahmad bin Ghulam Murtaza of Qadian.

"If, as you believe, Prophet Isa bin Mariam has died and is not to come again, then all the writings of Muslim scholars in this respect would be worthless: you cannot fasten them on Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Qadiani who surely was not born before the Holy Prophet, and who was not born without father and whose mother was Chiragh bibi and, not Mariam bint Imran. Look at in this way. Either the writings of these scholars about re-coming of Prophet Isa (a.s.) are correct or are wrong.

If they are correct, then they refer to Isa bin Mariam, not to Ghulam Ahmad bin Ghulam Murtaza.