Deobandi Qasim Nanawti Explaining Meaning of Khaatam

Founder of Darul Ulum Deoband, Mawlana Qasim

 

Nanawtawi explained the true meaning and reality

 

of the word Khaatam as having an alternate

 

meaning apart from chronological finality:

 

سو جس میں اس صفت کا زیادہ ظہور ہو جو خاتم الصفات ہو یعنی اس سے اوپر اور صفت

 

 

 ممکن اظہور یعنی لایق انتقال وعطائے مخلوکات نہ ہو۔ وہ شخص مخلوکات میں خاتم

 

 

 المراتب ہوگا اور وہی شخص سب کا سردار اور سب سے افضل ہوگا۔

 

 

Translation: "Therefore, the person who possesses

 

this attribute, which is Khaatam as-Siffaat (Seal of

 

Attributes), to a greater degree of manifestation,

 

that is, there is no attribute above it or which has the

 

possibility of being manifested and granted into the

 

creation – such a person, among the creation, is the

 

Khaatam al-Maraatib (Seal of Stations), and that

 

person is the master of all and the most superior of

 

all."

Reference: Intisar-ul-Islam; p.48