Note 35.
Again, if prophethood of
Muhammad remains limited to the Holy Prophet Muhammad
then it is entirely wrong to say that the man Mirza
Ghulam Ahmad was a prophet.
Note 36.
Again, by all prophets
here are meant the real prophets, and therefore anyone
known as 'prophet in the sense of burooz' is not
in the category of all prophets.
Note 37.
As to what is meant by the
Holy Prophet Muhammad coming into the world a
"thousand times", read again a part of the
quotation from Hazrat Mirza given earlier:
"...the
spirituality of our Holy Prophet has always
manifested itself at times when the internal crises
of Islam became overwhelming, and the 'essence of
Muhammad' has always made its appearance through some
perfect follower. ... There have been hundreds
of persons in whom the 'essence of Muhammad'
was established, and with God they had the names
'Muhammad' and 'Ahmad' by way of reflection (zill)."
(Ainah Kamalat Islam, February 1893, p.
346)
These hundreds of persons
are clearly the saints of Islam, and it is their coming
which referred to in Ayk Ghalati Ka Izala here as
the Prophet Muhammad coming a thousand times. Hazrat
Mirza is placing himself in the same category as these
persons: they all had the names 'Muhammad' and 'Ahmad' in
the sight of God, they were all zill and burooz.
As they were not prophets, and the Qadianis do not
consider them to be prophets, so also Hazrat Mirza was
not a prophet.
Note 38.
Again, Hazrat Mirza
affirms that Allah had told the Holy Prophet Muhammad
that no prophet would come after him.
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