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In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
All praise and thanks are due to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger.
In this fatwa:
The Prophet Muhammad’s statement “No Prophet or New Faith After Me” signifies the finality of divine revelation, not the end of human societies or new movements. Islam teaches that while people may form new ideologies or communities, no new prophet will arise and no divinely revealed religion will follow after Islam. This distinction preserves the unique position of Islam as the final message of God to humanity.
Responding to your question, Sheikh Ahmad Kutty, a senior lecturer and an Islamic scholar at the Islamic Institute of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, states:
In answering your question, let me state two points:
- The Prophet (peace be upon him) never said that no community would arise after him; indeed, there is no shortage of communities, secular and otherwise; some of them are purely fake, and others are offshoots of previous religions.
The fact that the Muslim community is different can be attested to by the simple fact that people of various religious, ethnic, or racial backgrounds are flocking to Islam, the true faith, leaving those communities every day all over the world.
Therefore, it is true that Islam is the fastest-growing religion in the world today. The Prophet (peace be upon him) had already prophesied this when he said, “A time is fast approaching that this religion will reach every nook and corner of the world, whether people like it or not.” He said this when Islam had never stepped out of the borders of Arabia.
- Coming to the founder of Sikhism, as far as I know, he never claimed to be a prophet. So, he never thought he was founding a new religion; he emphasized devotion to God, living an active and practical life, and striving for justice and equality.
So, I urge you not to dismiss the Prophet’s statements based on whimsical opinions.
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Almighty Allah knows best.