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fir-rasul --- a person ``effaced'' in the Holy
Prophet |
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This Section discusses various terms
employed in Sufism (Tasawwuf), or Islamic
mysticism, referring to saints which denote these holy
people's close relation to prophets. The explanations of
these concepts are drawn both from standard Sufi
authorities and from the writings of Hazrat Mirza Ghulam
Ahmad in order to show how Hazrat Mirza's use of these
ideas and expressions was entirely in line with Sufi
tradition and the message of the Holy Quran. Hazrat Mirza did neither invented
these terms nor misrepresent these concepts in order to
support his claims. In fact, he made it plainer than ever
had been made previously that a person to whom these
terms of high spiritual rank are applied still remains in
the category of saints, i.e. non-prophets, and does not
become a prophet because the Holy Prophet Muhammad was
the Last of the Prophets.
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Just as, in his capacity
of the Reformer (mujaddid) of the formal side of
Islam (the Shari`ah), Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad
expressed himself in the terminology of the Holy Quran
and Hadith, so did he, as the Reformer of the spiritual
and mystical side of Islam, discuss the nomenclature of
Sufism at great length. He did this so that none would
fall into error, realizing that the terminology of Tariqat
employed in his works (or the works of other great Sufi
saints, or even the prophecies of the Holy Prophet
Muhammad about the coming Messiah and Mahdi) cannot be
properly understood without referrence to the concept of
Shari'ah.
Finally, the claims of
various eminent muslims saints, particularly some from
India, are presented to reveal the spiritual climate in
which Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad expressed himself
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