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عند الله أراد رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم أن يلحق أمته، وهم آله العلماء الصالحون منهم، بمرتبة النبوة عند الله وإن لم يشرعوا ولكن أبقى لهم من شرعه ضربا من التشريع.

فقال: «قولوا: اللهم صل على محمد وعلى آل محمد»، أي صل عليه من حيث ما له آل «كما صليت على إبراهيم وعلى آل إبراهيم»، أي من حيث إنك أعطيت آل إبراهيم النبوة تشريفا لإبراهيم، فظهرت نبوتهم بالتشريع وقد قضيت إن لا شرع بعدي، فصل علي وعلى آلي بأن تجعل لهم مرتبة النبوة عندك وإن لم يشرعوا.

فكان من كمال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم إن ألحق آله بالأنبياء في المرتبة وزاد على إبراهيم بأن شرعه لا ينسخ وبعض شرع إبراهيم ومن بعده نسخت الشرائع بعضها بعضا.

وما علمنا رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم الصلاة عليه على هذه الصورة إلا بوحي من الله وبما أراه الله وأن الدعوة في ذٰلك مجابة فقطعنا أن في هذه الأمة من لحقت درجته درجة الأنبياء في النبوة عند الله لا في التشريع؛ ولهٰذا بين رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم وأكد بقوله: «فلا رسول بعدي ولا نبي» فأكد بالرسالة من أجل التشريع.

فأكرم الله رسوله صلى الله عليه وسلم بأن جعل آله شهداء على أمم الأنبياء

with God. The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, wished his community, his folk among its righteous scholars, to be joined to the rank of prophethood with God, even though they give no law. Yet he left them a kind of lawgiving within his law.

He said, “Say: O God, bless Muḥammad and the folk of Muḥammad,” meaning bless him in respect of his having folk, “as You blessed Abraham and the folk of Abraham,” meaning as You granted prophethood to Abraham’s folk to honor Abraham. Their prophethood appeared through lawgiving, and You have decreed that no law comes after me. So bless me and my folk by granting them the rank of prophethood with You, even though they give no law.

Part of the perfection of the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, is that he joined his folk to the prophets in rank. He exceeds Abraham in that his law will never be abrogated, while parts of Abraham’s law and the laws of those after him were abrogated by later laws.

The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, taught us to invoke blessings upon him in this form only through revelation from God, through what God showed him, and with knowledge that this supplication is answered. We therefore know with certainty that some in this community reach the prophets’ degree in prophethood with God, with lawgiving excluded. This is why the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, explained and emphasized, “There is no messenger or prophet after me.” He stressed messengerhood because of lawgiving.

God honored His Messenger, may God bless him and grant him peace, by making his folk witnesses over the communities of the prophets,