Introduction

In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the intensely Merciful

Praise be to Allah, the Owner of sovereignty Who sets the course of the skies and the stars, controls the winds, causes daybreak and administers authority, the Lord of the worlds. Oh Lord, bless Muhammad and his Family, the Imams and the Mahdis.

The prophecy was sealed by the prophecy of Muhammad pbuhap^[1] and Allah swt has perfected religion and completed His favor upon the believers. The nation has disagreed on the meaning of “Seal of the Prophets.” Some of them read it as seal (middle) and some read it as seal (last) and they had given each reading a meaning different from the other.

You also find some narrations which confirm that there is no prophecy after Muhammad pbuhap and whoever claims prophecy is a lying impostor. And on the other hand, you find narrations which insist that the prophecy continues after Muhammad pbuhap. And that the proof over the creation after Muhammad pbuhap must have a connection with the heavens, as in he must be informed and given inspiration by Allah swt.

Actually, you also find narrations from Muhammad pbuhap which state that the matter of inspiration from Allah swt is not restricted to the successors of Muhammad pbuhap but it extends beyond that to people in general, for example the true visions which are described by the messenger Muhammad pbuhap to be a part of the prophecy. Imam Al-Retha pbuh said,

“My father told me that my grandfather had said that his father said that Muhammad pbuhap said, ‘…the truthful vision is 1/70th part of the prophecy.’”^[2]

Narrated from Muhammad pbuhap that he had said,

“No prophecy after me except for the good tidings.” It was said, “Oh Messenger of Allah, and what are the good tidings?” He said, “The true visions.”^[3]

And here is where the seeker of truth finds himself at a crossroads between the two paths which both contradict what the Prophet Muhammad pbuhap and his purified progeny came with. Thus if he spoke of absolutely sealing the prophecy by Muhammad pbuhap, he would have contradicted the narrations which speak of the continuation of the prophecy (or at least some parts of it) after Muhammad pbuhap. And if he spoke of the absolute continuation of the prophecy, he would have contradicted the narrations which speak of the absolute sealing of the prophecy by the message of the most honest of all creation, Muhammad Al-Mustafa pbuhap.

The solution is not by taking and depending on part of the narrations while disregarding the other and trying to marginalize it and eliminating its significance or even saying that it is incorrect (Allah forbid.) This is a method rejected by the progeny pbut in so many narrations which tell us not to refuse any narration coming from Ahlul Bayt pbut^[4], unless it was against the Quran and the verified Sunnah^[5].

Therefore, the question of sealing the prophecy is from the allegories which can only be made explicit by the successors of Muhammad pbuhap. Allah swt said,

{It is He Who has revealed unto you the Scripture wherein are explicit revelations-they are the Mother of the Book-and others [which are] allegorical. But those in whose hearts is doubt pursue that which is allegorical seeking [to cause] dissension and seeking its interpretation. None knows its interpretation except for Allah and those who are firmly grounded in knowledge, they say, We believe therein; All is from our Lord; but only men of understanding really remember.}^[6]

Imam Al-Sadiq pbuh said to Abu Hanifa,

“Oh Abu Hanifa, do you know the book of Allah as it should be known? Do you know the abrogator and the abrogated?”

He said, “Yes.”

Al-Sadiq pbuh said, “Abu Hanifa, you claimed to have this knowledge. Woe to you, for Allah has not given this knowledge except for the people of the book which the book had descended upon them, Woe to you for it is only to particular ones from the progeny of our Prophet pbuhap. Allah has not bequeathed you a single letter of His book, so if you are as you say, which you are not, tell me about...”^[7]

Therefore, in this book of The Sealing Prophecy, you find the fulfilling answer. Sayyed Ahmad Al-Hassan, the promised Yamani and the messenger and successor of Imam Al-Mahdi pbuh, has clarified this matter in the most perfect manner from the Holy Quran and the purified Sunnah. He has not refused any narration from either paths (i.e the narrations which say the prophecy is sealed and the narrations which say that it continues after Muhammad pbuhap).

Sayyed Ahmad Al-Hassan pbuh has clarified the meaning of prophecy, and distinguished between the prophecy which has been sealed by Muhammad pbuhap and and the prophecy which continued after him. He also clarified the meaning of the seal of prophecy (Arabic khatam with a fat-ha on the taa, meaning middle) and the meaning of the seal of prophecy (Arabic khatim with a kasra on the taa, meaning last).

Therefore, you will find that this book has clarified by the clearest proofs that prophecy has been sealed by the messenger Muhammad pbuhap and there is no prophet after him, but that is in a different context than saying that it continues after him pbuhap. So there is no contradiction between the narrations, because each one of the two collections of narrations talk about a different meaning of the prophecy than the other collection.

Sayyed Ahmad Al-Hassan has also clarified the truth about dispatch, and whether the dispatch of prophets is exclusive to Allah swt or whether it can be done by messengers and prophets as well, and whether it is true to say the the infallible Imams are messengers from Allah swt or not. If the answer is yes, who sent the Imams pbut, and what is the difference between their dispatch and the dispatch of prophets pbut?

All these truths have found no sufficient answer throughout the previous centuries, but the answer to them is found with the son of the pure progeny, the successor and messenger of Imam Al-Mahdi pbuh, Sayyed Ahmad Al-Hassan in the book within your hands The Sealing Prophecy. And the truth I say unto you, that this book is from the evidences of the connection of Sayyed Ahmad Al-Hassan to Imam Al-Mahdi pbuh, because such knowledge is exclusive to the successors of the Messenger Muhammad pbuhap.

Allah swt said,

{Say, “Have you thought, if your water were to disappear into the earth, who then will bring you gushing water?”}^[8]

Praise be to Allah Who has guided us to this, and we would never have been guided if it was not for Allah. May the prayers and blessings of Allah be upon Muhammad and his progeny, the Imams and the Mahdis.

Sheikh Nathum Al-Oqaili