11 Aug 2014
Shri Anil asked “Some devotees of Islam say that Mohammad is the last Prophet. They say that the final message of God is given through Him and therefore, there is no need of any more Prophet in the future”.
Swami replied: A human being may give message today and may correct it again and again so that on one final day the final form of the message is prepared. Do you mean that God also gave messages through the earlier Prophets through the process of continuous corrections and the finally corrected message is given through the last Prophet Mohammad? If you say that God need not correct the message, in such case, the first message of God itself given through the first Prophet must have been the final version and due to this God need not have given a second message through a second Prophet. Then, the first Prophet should have been the final Prophet. You should say either that the first Prophet was the final Prophet or you should say that God has made continuous corrections and revised His message continuously and the final version was through the final Prophet Mohammad. If the first Prophet is final, you should not accept any Prophet from the second Prophet onwards. If God made continuous corrections like a human being, God cannot be God. Your acceptance of the earlier Prophets and your declaration of the final Prophet cannot be correlated since they contradict each other.
The only left over way is to say that God has given a series of messages through all these Prophets since there was a need of clarifications of the concepts given by Him every time to answer the doubts of various devotees in the continuous chain of generations. The clarifications of doubts of the devotees were also recorded as messages since the future devotees may not repeat the same doubts. But, when new doubts were raised, the clarifications of such new doubts form another new message for the same above said reason. In this way, new scriptures were born through the new Prophets. In such case, you cannot stop this continuous academic activity of God at any stage by saying that somebody is the final Prophet and no new scripture can come. You are framing your own rule based on the conservative fanaticism, which is binding even God!
Since you are speaking about the final version of knowledge of God expressed through a specific human being, who may be called Prophet or Human incarnation, the difference between Prophet and Human incarnation is irrelevant. In the case of Human incarnation, God enters a specific human being and speaks through its throat. In the case of Prophet, God speaks in the ear of the specific human being and the same is spoken out by the human being. In both cases, the knowledge is coming from God only. The concept of Human incarnation was opposed by Holy Mohammad because the Prophet before Him (Jesus) was cruelly crucified. This crucifixion was mainly based on the jealousy against certain statements of Jesus like ‘I and My Father are one and the same’ etc., indicating the concept of Human incarnation. Though Holy Mohammad was also the Human incarnation in reality, such concept is not tolerated by the surrounding human beings possessing excessive ego and jealousy. To avoid such revengeful crimes against the Human incarnations in the future, Mohammad deleted this very concept. If you say that Mohammad also told that He was the last Prophet, the kind Mohammad wanted to avoid the risk of life even in the case of Prophets. Even though He declared Himself as a Prophet only, He was forced to bring the unity of religions in that area not only by preaching but also by using the sword in several wars with the opposing religious leaders. Every war is a risk of life. Thus, as far as Mohammad is concerned, the background of His statements is quite different from your background, which is based on blind conservative fanaticism.
Any scripture of any religion cannot escape the possibility of pollution of some introductions occurring in course of time. Therefore, blind acceptance of the total scripture is not correct. You have to test every statement of the scripture through the fire of logic to see whether the statement is from God or from a scholar introducing it in course of time. Such pollutants must be filtered through the screen of logic and the remaining filtrate is the concept of God like the pure water. Unless logic is used, you cannot distinguish the statement of God and the statements introduced by human beings afterwards.
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