Ahmadiyyat or Qadianism! Islam or Apostasy? — Page 190
1. deny that never in the history of mankind has an individual been given the precise knowledge of his actual span of life nor has anyone ever been bestowed with the knowledge of the exact date of that fateful day when he or she would finally break all bonds with this transient world to prepare for his or her journey to the next world to meet his or her Lord and Master. . This view is supported by the Glorious Quran when it states: 'Say, none in the heavens and the earth knows the Unseen save. Allah; And they do not know when they will be raised. '5. In view of this evidence in the Holy Quran, it would be practically impossible for the anticipated Messiah to have any knowledge of the day of his death. But if any credence is to be given to the contention that he would 'arrive in this world with a positive knowledge that he is to live for a period of forty years after his descent, after which period he would pass away,' then the authority of the foregoing passages in the Holy Quran would be subjected to doubt. 7. Consider for instance, according to this supposition, not only will the. Messiah but every other human being who knows of the day and date of the Messiah's descent would be able to calculate the precise day and date of his impending death. And hence the entire world would then share the knowledge which according to the Holy Quran is not possessed by anyone except God Almighty. . EXTENSIVE AGE AND SENILITY. Neverthless, if one was to accept the contention that the Messiah ibn. Mariam would personally descend from heaven in the same body with which he allegedly ascended to heaven some 2000 years ago and then " 5. Al Quran 27. 66 6. Maududi,, A. A: Finality of Prophethood: pg 50/51 7. Al Quran 6. 60 & 27. 66 191