Ahmadiyyat Is Not a New Religion — Page 19
19 JESUS AS IS DECEASED Hazrat Mirza Sahib as clarified that Jesus, son of Mary, already passed away and the Holy Quran substantiates his death. Having died, he has no connection to this world, much less any possibility of returning to it. One key argument he advanced to establish this point is from the last portion of Sūrah Al-Mā’idah 2. God Almighty says that on the Day of Judgment, He will question Jesus as about how it came to be that he and his mother were deified in the world; did he ask the people to take him and his mother as gods and to worship them? You are probably aware that Christians believe in the divinity of Jesus. During the era of the Holy Prophet s as , certain Christian sects also believed in the divinity of Mary. In practical terms, Roman Catholics, to this day, prostrate before the image of Mary and 2 And when Allah will say, “O Jesus, son of Mary, didst thou say to men, ‘Take me and my mother for two gods beside Allah?’”, he will answer, “Holy art Thou. I could never say that to which I had no right. If I had said it, Thou wouldst have surely known it. Thou knowest what is in my mind, and I know not what is in Thy mind. It is only Thou Who art the Knower of hidden things. “I said nothing to them except that which Thou didst command me — ‘Worship Allah, my Lord and your Lord. ’ And I was a witness over them as long as I re - mained among them, but since Thou didst cause me to die, Thou hast been the Watcher over them; and Thou art Witness over all things. ( Sūrah Al-Mā ’ idah , 5:117-118) [Publishers]