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- Subject: Re: CFV ahmadiyya
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.210424.1091@altair.selu.edu>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 15:04:24 GMT
- Article-I.D.: altair.1992Nov18.210424.1091
- Organization: Southeastern Louisiana University
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- In article <102313@bu.edu>, khalid@bu-bio.bu.edu (Rasheed A. Khalid) wrote:
-
- > This expression: Seal of the prophets, has been taken by these Mullahs to
- > mean last of the prophets, which it does not mean. An idea of this can
- > be had from the fact that the word "Khatam" (seal) has often been used in
- > arabic literature to mean perfect in every sense, and the greatest of all,
- > but not the last, of all:
-
- Shakil answered:
-
- >Is this meant to be a joke? Do you really know Arabic? The primary
- >meaning of the word "khatam" is "seal" as in to "seal a process" or
- >"close," i.e. "end." If you would care to look through the Qur'an,
- >you will find this is consistent. Finding some metaphorical uses of
- >the word in bizarre contexts where it means "ring" or "to show
- >greatness" is as ridiculous as interpreting "seal" to mean the literal
- >wax emblem used on letters in this context. How come it didn't occur
- >to millions of Muslims for hundreds of years that "Khatamun-Nabiyyeen"
- >could mean some of the things you suggest? There was no doubt in
- >*anyone's* mind what the Arabic word meant in this context. Any
- >native speaker of Arabic will tell you the primary meaning of the
- >word, namely "last", "finish", or "complete."
-
- In support of Shakil's argument it may help to add that the correct
- word used in the Holy Quran is KHATIM unnabyin which means the complete
- and finish (i.e. no other naby after). KHATAM (which means ring) is not
- the word used, thus the KHATAM argument is false. Therefore, prophet
- Muhammad was the finish of the nabiyyin according to the Holy Quran and
- there is no nabi after him.
-
- Then Khaled wrote:
- > The question is: if Khatam in arabic has continually been used for greatness
- > rather than being at the end of a process,
-
- See the above paragraph.
- !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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-
- Rami Hijazi
-