Twelfth Argument: Merely God's speaking to man is not real prophethood
| [ BACK ] | If Hazrat
Mirza had indeed claimed to be a prophet, he would not
have denied laying a claim to real prophethood, taking
the words nabi (prophet) and rasul
(messenger) as being in a metaphorical sense, for the
metaphorical cannot be real. He wrote: ``This humble one has never, at any time, made a claim of nubuwwat or risalat [prophethood or messengership] in the real sense. To use a word in a non-real sense, and to employ it in speech according to its broad, root meaning, does not imply heresy (kufr).'' (Anjam Atham, footnote, p. 27) ``When God speaks to someone very frequently, and reveals to him His knowledge of hidden matters, this is prophethood (nubuwwat), but it is not real prophethood.'' (Malfuzat Ahmadiyya, vol. x, p. 421) ``God has called me nabi by way of metaphor, not by way of reality.'' (Al-Istifta, Supplement to Haqiqat al-Wahy, p.64) |