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beloved master's greetings of peace since he declared: 'Whosoever is blessed to meet the Promised Messiah must convey to him, the greeting of peace on my behalf. '14. Who then is this Imam Mahdi and the Promised Messiah. Is he to be. Jesus, the son of Mary? The answer to this query has already been provided by the scholars of Al Azhar University who maintain that: 'There is nothing in the Holy Quran, nor in the sacred Traditions of the. Prophet, which endorses the correctness of the belief to the contentment of the heart that Jesus was taken up to heaven with his body and is alive there even now, and would descend therefrom in the latter days. '15. Infact, the scholars of Al Azhar are so insistent that Jesus would positively not return to this earth once again, that in respose to a question as to what would be the position of those Muslims who do not acknowledge him in case he comes to this world for the second time, the learned scholars state: 'And as to the other part of the question, after the above statement of ours, this question does not arise at all. And Allah is the Best. Knower. '16. Hence, if the question of the return of Jesus to this earth does not arise, then who is to be the Imam Mahdi and the Promised Messiah to whom. Muslims are required to convey the greetings of peace on behalf of their lord and master, Hazrat Muhammed Mustapha, peace and blessings of. Allah be upon him? According to the saints and scholars of the. Ummah: 'In this Tradition, Mary and Jesus both denote such a person who bears in him the characteristics of both Jesus and Mary. '17 14. Durr e Manthur 15. Shaltoot, Sheikh Mahmud: Al Risalah, Cairo: Vol. 10. No. 462. pg 515 16. Ibid 17. Zamakhshari, Allama Abul Qasim Mahmud ibn Umar al 280