Note 7

[ BACK ] Elsewhere Hazrat Mirza has explained that wahy nubuwwat or wahy risalat (type of revelation exclusive to prophets) has closed with the completion of the revelation of the Quran, and that the closure of wahy nubuwwat means that no prophet can come, whether Jesus or any other prophet. He writes:

1. "Every wise person can understand that if God is true to His promise, and the promise given in the Khatam an-nabiyyin verse, which has been explicitly mentioned in the Hadith, that now, after the death of the Holy Prophet, may peace and the blessings of God be upon him, Gabriel has been forbidden forever from bringing wahy nubuwwat --- if all these things are true and correct, then no person at all can come as a messenger (rasul) after our Holy Prophet." (Izala Auham, September 1891, p. 577)

2. "After the Khatam an-nabiyyin, the Holy Quran does not allow the coming of any rasul, whether he is a new one or a former one, because a rasul receives knowledge of religion through the agency of Gabriel, and the coming of Gabriel as bringing wahy risalat has been closed. It is self-contradictory that a messenger (rasul) come into the world, but not be accompanied by wahy risalat." (ibid., p. 761)

3. "It is part of the concept and essence of rasul that he should receive religious knowledge through Gabriel, and it has just been shown that wahy risalat has been terminated till the Day of Judgment." ibid., p. 614)

4. "According to the explanation of the Holy Quran, rasul is he who receives the commands and tenets of the religion through Gabriel. But a seal has been put upon wahy nubuwwat since thirteen hundred years ago. Will this seal then break?" (ibid., p. 534)

5. "It is my belief that wahy risalat began with Adam and ended with the Messenger of Allah, Muhammad, may peace and the blessings of Allah be upon him." (Announcement dated 2 October 1891, Majmu'a Ishtiharat, vol. i, p. 231)

6. "If we allow the appearance of a prophet after our Holy Prophet, we would have to allow the opening of the door of wahy nubuwwat after its closure. And this is wrong, as is not hidden from the Muslims. How can a prophet come after our Holy Prophet, when revelation has been cut off after his death, and God has ended the prophets with him?" (Hamamat al-Bushra, 1894, p. 20)

7. "Our unjust opponents do not consider the doors of the finality of prophethood to be fully closed. On the contrary, they believe that a window is still open for the return of the Israelite prophet Jesus. If, therefore, a real prophet appeared after the Quran, and the process of wahy nubuwwat commenced, then please explain what would happen to the finality of prophethood? Will the revelation of a prophet be called wahy nubuwwat or something else?" (Siraj Munir, March 1897, p. 3)

8. "The fact that our Holy Prophet is the Khatam al-anbiya also requires the death of Jesus because if another prophet comes after the Holy Prophet, then he cannot remain the Khatam al-anbiya, nor can wahy nubuwwat be considered as terminated. ... What audacity, boldness and insolence it is that, by pursuing shallow conjectures, one should deliberately depart from the clear meaning of the Quran and believe in the coming of a prophet after the Khatam al-anbiya, and recommence the process of wahy nubuwwat after its termination! For, the revelation of the man who possesses the rank of prophethood is undoubtedly the wahy of nubuwwat." (Ayyam as-Sulh, August 1898, p. 146)