Surah 33. Al-Ahzab, Ayah 40
| مَا كَانَ مُحَمَّدٌ أَبَا أَحَدٍ مِنْ رِجَالِكُمْ وَلَٰكِنْ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ وَخَاتَمَ النَّبِيِّينَ ۗ وَكَانَ اللَّهُ بِكُلِّ شَيْءٍ عَلِيمًا |
| Transliteration | : | maa kaana muh.ammad 'abaa 'ah.ad min rijaal -kum wa- laakin rasol 'allaah wa- khaatam an- nabeyen wa- kaana 'allaah bi- kull shay' calem(an) |
| Pickthall | : | Muhammad is not the father of any man among you, but he is the messenger of Allah and the Seal of the Prophets; and Allah is Aware of all things. |
| Asad | : | [And know, O believers, that] Muhammad is not the father of any one of your men,50 but is God's Apostle and the Seal of all Prophets.51 And God has indeed full knowledae of evervthina. |
| Malik | : | Muhammad is not the father of any of your men (he is not going to leave any male heirs). He is the Rasool of Allah and the Seal of the Prophets. Allah has the knowledge of all things. |
| Yusuf Ali | : | Muhammad is not the father of any of your men but (he is) the Apostle of Allah and the Seal of the Prophets: and Allah has full knowledge of all things. 3731 |
Note - 50I.e., he is the spiritual "father" of the whole community
(cf. note [8] on verse {6} of this surah), and not of any
one person or particular persons - thus, incidentally,
refuting the erroneous idea that physical descent from a
prophet confers, by itself, any merit on the persons
concerned.
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Note - 51I.e., the last of the prophets, just as a seal (khatam)
marks the end of a document; apart from this, the term
khatam is also synonymous with khitam, the "end" or
"conclusion" of a thing: from which it follows that the
message revealed through Muhammad - the Qur'an - must be
regarded as the culmination and the end of all prophetic
revelation (cf. note [66] on the first sentence of the
second paragraph of 5:48, and note [126] on 7:158).
See also note [102] on 21:107.
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Note - 3731When a document is sealed, it is complete, and there can
be no further addition. The holy Prophet Muhammad closed
the long line of Messengers. Allah's teaching is and will
always be continuous, but there has been and will be no
Prophet after Muhammad. The later ages will want thinkers
and reformers, not Prophets. This is not an arbitrary
matter. It is a decree full of knowledge and wisdom: "for
Allah has full knowledge of all things."
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I.e., he is the spiritual "father" of the whole community (cf. note [8] on verse {6} of this surah), and not of any one person or particular persons - thus, incidentally, refuting the erroneous idea that physical descent from a prophet confers, by itself, any merit on the persons concerned. |
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I.e., the last of the prophets, just as a seal (khatam) marks the end of a document; apart from this, the term khatam is also synonymous with khitam, the "end" or "conclusion" of a thing: from which it follows that the message revealed through Muhammad - the Qur'an - must be regarded as the culmination and the end of all prophetic revelation (cf. note [66] on the first sentence of the second paragraph of 5:48, and note [126] on 7:158). See also note [102] on 21:107. |
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When a document is sealed, it is complete, and there can be no further addition. The holy Prophet Muhammad closed the long line of Messengers. Allah's teaching is and will always be continuous, but there has been and will be no Prophet after Muhammad. The later ages will want thinkers and reformers, not Prophets. This is not an arbitrary matter. It is a decree full of knowledge and wisdom: "for Allah has full knowledge of all things." |
