The Promised Messiah (as) said: “Faith in God and excellence are not exhaustible entities that vanish away from the earth. God is never miserly. The nature that one person develops can be inculcated by another as well. If the qualities of a Prophet could not be adopted by others, then his very person would be useless. A Sufi by the name of Ibni Hazam states: ‘I embraced the Noble Messenger, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, until I myself became the Messenger of Allah.’”1
1 Al-Hakam, vol. 5, no. 10, dated 17 March 1901, pp. 8-9