…how many are those who… have allowed the term “Seal of the
Prophets” to obscure their understanding, and deprive them of the grace of all
His manifold bounties! Hath not Muhammad, Himself, declared: “I am all the
Prophets?” Hath He not said as We have already mentioned: “I am Adam, Noah,
Moses, and Jesus?” Why should Muhammad, that immortal Beauty, Who hath said: “I
am the first Adam” be incapable of saying also: “I am the last Adam”? For even
as He regarded Himself to be the “First of the Prophets”—that is Adam—in like manner,
the “Seal of the Prophets” is also applicable unto that Divine Beauty. It is
admittedly obvious that being the “First of the Prophets,” He likewise is their
“Seal.”
- Baha’u’llah (‘The Kitab-i-Iqan’)
