From: 3040_3744@uwovax.uwo.ca
Newsgroups: soc.culture.pakistan
Subject: Re:REPLY TO KAMRAN'S LOGICAL PROOF OF FINALITY OF PROPHETHOOD 
Date: 15 Apr 92 12:40:00 EST

In article <1992Apr14.161619.3061@ee.eng.ohio-state.edu>, iqbal@ee.eng.ohio-state.edu (Kamran Iqbal) writes:
> 	
> 		LOGICAL PROOF OF FINALITY OF PROPHETHOOD - II
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> 
> 	The third point worthy of consideration is that whenever a
> prophet arises among a people, they will immediately be confronted
> with the question of belief and unbelief.  Those who accept him will
> form one community and those who reject him inevitably a seperate
> community.  Then practically also they will have seperate sources of
> the guidance and law.  For this reason it will be impossible for the
> two communities to unite and become a cohesive society.
> 
> 	If one keeps these realities in view one will understand that
> the Finality of Prophethood is a great blessing  of Allah, which alone
> has made it possible for the Muslim Ummah to become an enduring and
> universal brotherhood.  Now whoever accepts the Prophet Muhammad 
> (upon whom be Allah's peace and blessings) as hid guide and leader and
> is not prepared to turn to any othe source of guidance except his
> teaching, is a member of this brotherhood.  this unity could never had
> been achieved by the Ummah had the door to prophethood had not been
> closed and sealed, for it would have continued to suffer
> disintegration on the advent of every new prophet.

WHY? IF THE PROPHET HIMSELF SAID THAT THERE WILL BE A MASSIAH AND WHEN HE COME
YOUMUST ACCEPT HIM THAN HOW YOU SAY THAT THERE SHOULD NOT BE ANY MASSIAH IN THE
UMMAH. SO IN OHTHER WORDS YOU ARE SAYING THAT EVEN IF YOU DO NOT OBEY THE
PROPHET WHOM YOU HAVE ACCEPTED IT IS ALL RIGHT FOR THE SAKE OF UNITY. THUS A
PERSON CAN DISOBEY HIS PROPHET AND GOD FOR THE SAKE OF UNITY. IS THAT WHAT YOU
ARE TRYING TO SAY?   AND LOOK AT THE UMMAH WHICH IS ALREADY DIVIDED INTO 74
SECTS WITHOUT EVEN ACCEPTING THE MASSIAH. SO YOUR LOGIC FAILS HERE. 

 
> 	Any sensible person after a little deliberation can easily
> understand that when a prophet has been sent for the entire mankind,
> when Religion has been perfected and completed through him, when his
> teaching has been fully secured and preserved for ever, the door to
> prophethood should naturally be closed and sealed in order that the
> believers the world over may unite into a single community permanently
> by adherence to the teaching of the Last Prophet, and the appearance
> of new prophets every now and then does not cause divisions to appear
> in the Ummah.

IF THE UMMAH REALLY ADHERE THE TEACHING OF THE PROPHET THAN THERE SHOULD NOT BE
ANY PROBLEM IN THE UMMAH BECAUSE EVERY ONE WILL ACCEPT THE ONE WHO IS
PROPHECIZED BY THE PROHPHET BUT UNFORTUNATELY THAT IS NOT THE CASE AND UMMAH
DOES NOT ADHERE ITSELF TO THE TEACHING OF THE PROPHET. LOOK AROUND IN ANY
MUSLIM COUNTRY AND SEE WHAT IS GOING ON ARE THEY REALLLY STICKING WITH THE
TEACHING OF THE PROPHET(S.A.W.)?

 
> 	Whether a prophet is a 'shadow prophet' or a 'reincarnation',
> or whether he is the follower  of a former Prophet, of law giver and
> bearer of a book, in any case whenever such a prophet arises, and is
> sent by God, his emergence will necessarily cause  mankind to be
> divided into two communities: those who accept him will form the
> community of believers, and those who reject him will be condemned as
> disbelievers. 
> 	
> 	This division is inevitable when there is really the need for
> a new prophet, but when there is no such need, it can not be expected
> that Allah in His infinite wisdom and mercy would cause His servants
> to be needlessly involved in the conflict of belief and unbelief and
> would prevent their becoming ine integrated Ummah for ever.

SO YOU ARE SAYING THAT ALLAH WILL NOT BE KIND ENOUGH TOWARDS THE UMMAH AND WILL
LEAVE THE UMMAH WANDERING AND HELPLESS IN THE MOST CRITICAL TIME AND WILL NOT
RESCUE THEM FROM THE SHAMEFULL STATE IN WHICH THEY ARE LIVING? WHAT SORT OF
REASONING YOU ARE USING? I AM VERY SURPRISED WITH YOUR ARGUMENTS. 
 
M.H.A MUNAWER
> 	Therefore, whatever is established by the Quran and confirmed
> by the Sunnah and consensus, is also corroborated by reason, and
> reason also demands that the door to prophethood should now remain
> closed and sealed for ever and ever.
> 
> 
> -- 
> KAMRAN IQBAL	  | In the name of Allah, the beneficient, the merciful.
> Dept of Elec Eng  |  "I bear witness that there is no god but ALLAH,
> Ohio State Univ   |   I bear witness that MUHAMMAD is his messenger".