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It may, however, be further added that by bringing Prophethood to a close, Islam has not deprived the world of Divine Guidance which was available to previous generation.
Reason would revolt against the suggestion that God exercised His attributes of speech up to the time of the World-Prophet and thereafter became dumb forever. As we repudiate as blasphemous any suggestion that God possessed the attribute of seeing upto the time of Prophet Muhammad but that thereafter He ceased to see, or that He was capable of creating upto the time of Prophet Muhammad but that thereafter He lost the attribute of creation, so we must repudiate the suggestion that God spoke up to any particular period in time and thereafter ceased to speak i.e.ceased to guide mankind.
God the Almighty granted His final bounty to mankind by continuing the Divine Guidance in the person of Holy Imam the Divine Manifestation (Mazhar-e-Dhat-e-Allah).
The Divine Guidance for mankind, to be continued through the Imams, was introduced by the last of the Prophets, Hazrat Nabi Muhammad in the plain of Ghadir-e-Khumm.
It would be best to quote this event from a Sunni source:
"Ahmed bin Hambal, one of the four Sunni Imams, has mentioned this incident in his well known book MASNAD AL-KABIR'. He quotes Barra-bin-Azib, one of the As-haab (companion) of the Prophet saying:
"We were in the company of the Prophet when he halted at Ghadir-e-Khumm and led the congregational prayer. After finishing the prayer, the Prophet took the hand of Ali and raised it up saying, 'Am I not dearer to the momins than their
own soul?' They said 'Yes'. Again he said: 'Ali is the Master of the one who acknowledges me to be his master. O God! love those who love Ali and hate those who hate Ali.' After hearing this, Omar bin Khattab went up to Ali and said: "Congratulations to you, O the son of Abu Talib! You have become the master of every male and female mu'min."
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