Questioner: My grandfather told me, you said Holy Prophet (PBUH) and Promised Messiah (as) are the only two international people in the world, in Islam.
Huzoor (rh): In the other two international people?
Questioner: Yes. You mean international prophet or …?
Huzoor (rh): What I mean to say is, after the Prophet (PBUH), there is not a single Mujaddid who addressed the entire mankind on behalf of Islam. This is what I said. You understand?
Questioner: Yes, I understand.
Huzoor (rh): There is not a single Mujaddid anywhere in the world who addressed himself to the whole of mankind on behalf of Islam and took it upon himself to convert every people of every religion to Islam. Is there a single man in the history of Islam who did these two tasks, performed these two tasks? You know? None.
Questioner: But what is the position of Abu Bakr or Umar?
Huzoor (rh): They were Khulafa. Yes. Yes. Khilafat represents prophethood. And Khalifa does exactly the same things as the Prophet does. As long as Khilafat-e-Rashida continued, they performed exactly the same task as was entrusted to Hadhrat Rasool-e-Karim, ﷺ [sallallahu alaihi wa sallam]. Otherwise, they could not be Khalifas. I am also doing the same thing in my position as Khalifat-ul-Masih—not independently.
