``It is total slander by [Maulavi] Muhammad Husain [Batalvi] to ascribe to me that I deny miracles and that I lay claim to prophethood, and that I do not consider the Holy Prophet to be the Khatam al-anbiya, God forbid. No, on the contrary, God is Witness that I believe all these things, and as to those who reject these beliefs and practices [of Islam], I consider them to be accursed and losers in this world and the next.''

(Majmu`a Ishtiharat, vol. ii, p. 257)

 

``Those people have fabricated a lie against me who say that this man claims to be a prophet.''

(Hamamat al-Bushra, p. 8; new edition p. 36)

 

``People did not understand my saying and said that this man claims prophethood. But God knows that this saying of theirs is clear falsehood. There is not a grain of truth in it, nor any basis for it.''

(ibid., p. 81; new edition p. 289)

 

``By way of a fabrication, they slander me by saying that I have made a claim to prophethood. But it should be remembered that all this is a fabrication. Our belief is that our leader and master, Muhammad mustafa, peace be upon him, is the Khatam al-anbiya.''

(Kitab al-Barriyya, p. 182, footnote)

 

``I make no claim to prophethood. This is your mistake, or you have some motive in mind. Is it necessary that the person who lays claim to revelation should also be a prophet?''

(Jang Muqaddas, p. 67)

 

``Ignorant opponents allege against me that this person claims to be a prophet or apostle. I make no such claim.''

(Pamphlet Ayk Ghalati Ka Izala)

 

``Can a wretched imposter who claims apostleship and prophethood for himself have any belief in the Holy Quran? And can a man who believes in the Holy Quran, and believes the verse `He is the Messenger of God and the Khatam an-nabiyyin' to be the word of God, say that he is a messenger and a prophet after the Holy Prophet Muhammad?''

(Anjam Atham, p. 27, footnote)

 

``Another stupidity is that, in order to provoke the ignorant people, they say that this person has claimed prophethood. This is a complete fabrication on their part.''

(Haqiqat al-Wahy, p. 390)

 

``What ignorance, stupidity, and departure from truth, to say that prophethood has been claimed.''

(ibid., Appendix, p. 68)

 

``In confronting the present Ulama, this humble servant has sworn many times by God that I am not a claimant to any prophethood. But these people still do not desist from declaring me as kafir.''

(Letter to Maulavi Ahmad-ullah of Amritsar, 27 January 1904)