Prophet Muhammad the seal?

[sridatta]

[Some muslim devotees argue that Mohammad is the last Prophet or seal of Prophets. Swami replied to them] Mr. Tanweer Ahmad responded to a message given by Swami on regarding the topic that Mohammad is the last Prophet. His main points are: 1) the word ‘last’ (Khatam) means perfect and Mohammad was perfect and hence this does not mean that after Mohammad no Prophet comes. 2) Since Mohammad is perfect, even if the Prophets come in future, they are like His shadow reflections only and not as another light.

Swami replied: I appreciate the sincerity and devotion to Mohammad in the case of Tanweer Ahmad. Since he has given the clarifications of the word ‘last’ in excellent way, I consider him also as a Prophet after Mohammad. His explanation itself is a scripture. But, doubts always come on every scripture and further clarifications from God come in course of time. I am presenting the doubts that arise in the minds of human beings on this and also giving an answer to such doubts. Hence, this message is only a continuous extension and not at all a contradiction.

One scripture does not condemn the other or surpass the other in excellence since all the scriptures are from God only. A good Prophet is one, who gives the message heard from God word by word without any deletion or addition. A bad Prophet deletes some inconvenient concepts heard from God and adds new concepts of his own, which are convenient and advantageous to him.

A good Prophet is like a tape recorder, which records the message from God word by word and reveals the same to the world, word by word. In the case of human incarnation such deletions and additions are not possible at all since God enters a specific human being and speaks directly using the throat of the human being. Thus, the human incarnation is like a T.V. showing a live telecast. In this case, there is no doubt of any pollution and hence human incarnation is considered to be safer than a Prophet. The authority for the human incarnation is Gita in which it is said that God enters a human being to become the human incarnation (Manusheem Tanumaasritam...).

However, there is no even trace of difference between human incarnation and a good Prophet since knowledge is not polluted in both cases. A bad Prophet differs from a human being in the sense that he also heard message from God. He became bad after hearing the message. You should differentiate the good and bad in his scripture with the help of your powerful scientific analysis and take good only. The distinction between good and bad Prophets can also be achieved with the help of the logical analysis. Therefore, your intelligence must be always glowing like a torch light to discriminate truth and false avoiding the darkness of conservative fanaticism of any scripture of any religion. You should not accept anything blindly.

First, you must conquer the bias and prejudice, conservative blindness and fanatic approach. Nobody is our relative and nobody is an outsider. Our relative is such good Prophet, who reveals the message of God without making any pollution. For us, the outsider is the bad Prophet, who pollutes the message of God. Our logic should be always alive and discriminate the good and bad Prophets and also good and bad in the message of bad Prophet. You have told about a set of Prophets before Mohammad. My question is that whether all these Prophets earlier to Mohammad were good or bad? If you say that all the Prophets were good, in such case, there should not be any difference between earlier Prophets and Mohammad.

Then, each Prophet is perfect and the message of each Prophet must be final. In such case, all the Prophets including Mohammad after the first Prophet must be equally good and you cannot apply words like ‘good, better and best’ in these Prophets. Hence, every Prophet after the first Prophet is a shadow reflection of the previous Prophet only and not a new light. All these Prophets must be best since every Prophet delivered the message of God, word by word because you have accepted all of them as good Prophets only.

No Prophet made any pollution in the message of God. In such case, you need not doubt about the appearance of several messages through several good Prophets since the first message itself was final. Of course, this doubt can be easily answered as per My previous message that every time a new message or scripture appeared to clarify the doubts of human beings on the previous message. The original message of the first Prophet and the subsequent messages of the subsequent Prophets are from God only and hence, you cannot say that one message is good and other message is bad. All messages must be good only since they came from the same God.

Of course, you can distinguish the messages from the point of elaboration. This elaboration depends on the number of doubts raised in a specific generation. In one generation the number of doubts may be small and in another generation the number of doubts may be large. In such case, the in the second generation is more elaborate than the scripture of the first generation. This difference cannot be attributed to God and it can be attributed only to the number of doubters. Hence, by this difference, you cannot say that one scripture is good and another scripture is bad.

Since all the scriptures are from the same God, which do not contradict each other in the basic subject, differing only in elaboration due to the difference in number of doubters, you cannot certify one scripture as best and final with respect to the other scriptures. You can say so if any scripture is from a bad Prophet and the bad Prophet is easily identified and captured by the powerful logic of the readers. You can say some scripture as most elaborate and hence no further doubts can come in future provided such scripture has covered all the possible doubts of the future. But, how can you say this now itself unless the future ends and comes to a full stop?

The future is still there and you cannot be sure of absence of new doubts. Allah has created this entire universe and also created different languages in this world. Allah knows all the languages. How can you say that Prophets have not come in other regions of the earth? Their messages are in their languages only. The language may differ but the subject does not differ in all these scriptures present in the world. If there is a difference, Allah cannot be one God.
The same Allah will not give contradicting messages in different regions in different languages. There may be differences in the cultures and habits but there cannot be difference in the divine code of conduct that is to be followed in the society and the spiritual knowledge related to the same one God. All the human beings should conclude this using the sharp logic from their brains and be united with harmony and peace like the children of one father.