24 Sep 2021
Shri Anil asked: How can Holy Prophet Muhammad be the seal of the Prophets? As per Muslims the Holy Prophet Muhammad is the last of the divine prophets. After His Eminence, no other prophet is going to be sent by God. They quote the following verse.
“Muhammad is not the father of any of your men, but he is the Apostle of Allah and the Last of the prophets; and Allah is cognizant of all things.” (Sura 33:40)
With the sending down of the Qur’an, Muslims believe that the final revelation was given to the last and greatest of the prophets. For this reason, they give Muhammad the title “Seal of the Prophets”. Muslims also refer the following statement from Quran (Sura 61:6) which as per them was told by Jesus and is one of the basis for the argument that Muhammad is the last and final prophet.
And call6 to mind when Jesus, son of Mary, said: “O Children of Israel, I am Allah's Messenger to you, I verify the Torah which has come before me,7 and I give you the glad tiding of a Messenger who shall come after me, his name being Ahmad.”8 Yet when he came to them with Clear Signs they said: “This is sheer trickery.” 9 (Sura 61:6)
Whereas, Christians quote the following verse given in Matthew 24:29-31 for evidence of second coming of Jesus:
29 “Immediately after the distress of those days “‘the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.’
30 “Then will appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven. And then all the peoples of the earth will mourn when they see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory. 31 And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.
Due to these verses in Quran, Muslims are not getting an opportunity to enjoy the divine knowledge given by the Contemporary Human Incarnation of God and finally know the truth. However, God Krishna told in Gita that He will come again and again.
Swami, I request You to give a detailed reply why Muhammad told that He is the final and seal of the Prophets and also please correlative it with God Krishna’s statement in Gita and Jesus’s statement in Bible. At Your Divine Lotus Feet-anil]
Swami Replied:- We have to decide the meaning with reference to the correctness of the concept, but not decide merely by basing on what is written in the scripture. Any statement in any scripture can be the insertion done by any follower due to his blind fascination to his religion. Nobody can disprove this by presenting an audio-video cassette showing the incarnation of God telling the scripture. We shall believe any statement of any scripture as correct provided that statement is logically analysed and is found correct. This statement is correct because the logical analysis shows that this statement is correct provided you take it in correct angle and not in any other twisted angle. Till then several prophets established several Gods and devotees were doing severe quarrels among themselves. Prophet Mohammad came and unified all the Gods into one God called Allah. Similarly, in Hinduism also there were quarrels among devotees regarding different forms of God and Aadi Shankara came, who united all these different Gods into one God called Brahman (ParaBrahman).
From the point of such unification of all Gods into one absolute God, the knowledge of Aadi Shankara or the knowledge of Prophet Mohammad is one and the same. Even Jesus believed in the concept of one God called Yahova. As far as this fundamental concept is concerned, this knowledge told by Aadi Shankara or Jesus or Mohammad is truly a sealed concept and no other prophet can change it. When it is said that Mohammad is the seal of the prophets, it means the concept preached by Mohammad is the seal of the knowledge, which can’t be changed by any prophet. This concept is misunderstood because as soon as you hear the name of Mohammad, if you belong to other religion, you become emotional that your religion is insulted and misunderstand the actual concept due to lack of patience to enquire the statement with steadiness. When you hear that Mohammad is the seal of Prophets, it means simultaneously Shankara or Jesus or Buddha is also the seal of the Prophets because the same concept is told by these four Prophets. Even Buddha indicated that unimaginable God alone is the one God because His silence about God indicates only the unimaginable God beyond words.
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