Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part V — Page 512
B AR Ā H Ī N-E-A H M ADIY YA — PART F IV E 512 The second firm and conclusive argument for the death of Hadrat ‘ I s a, may peace be upon him, is God’s word فَعَہ ُ هللا اِلَیْہِ. َّ بَل ْ ر [‘but Allah exalted him to Himself ’] for it is evident from reviewing the Holy Quran and a ha d i th that ّٰ رفع الی الل [exaltation to God]—which is obviously indi- cated in the verse ِ رَفَعَہ ُ الل ُّٰ اِلَیْہ [‘He exalted him to Himself ’]—is not used with respect to any context other than the context of death, as God says in the Holy Quran: 1 اَهُتَّيَاٰۤي ُسْفَّنلا ُةَّنِٕىَمْطُمْلا ْۤيِعِجْرا ىٰلِا ِكِّبَر ًةَيِضاَر ًةَّيِضْرَّم ْيِلُخْداَف ْيِف ْيِدٰبِع َو ْيِلُخْدا ْيِتَّنَج Meaning, ‘O soul at peace that is comforted by God, come back to your God while God is pleased with you and you are pleased with God. And enter among My servants, and enter into My Paradise. ’ Obviously, no one from among the Muslims takes these words of Allah, the Lord of Glory, to mean that one should go and sit in Heaven alive with their earthly body. Rather, the verse ْۤيِعِجْرا ىٰلِا ِكِّبَر [‘return to your Lord’] is taken only to mean death. Thus, when ‘returning to God’, on the basis of decisive Quranic dictum, means death, then why does not ‘raising to God’, which is evident from the verse فَعَہ ُ هللا اِلَیْہِ. َّ بَل ْ ر [‘but Allah exalted him to Himself ’], also mean death?2 ٭ 1. S u rah al-Fajr, 89:28–31 [Publisher] 2. ٭ Likewise, there are many other verses of the Holy Quran that clearly show that the words ِّٰ رَفْع ٌ اِلَی الل [ raf ‘un ilall a h —exaltation to God] and ِّٰ رُجُوْع ٌ اِلَی الل [ ru- j u ‘un ilall a h —return to Allah] are always used to connote death. As Allah the Almighty says in the Holy Quran: [ S u rah as-Sajdah, 32:12 ] ْلُق ْمُكىّٰفَوَتَي ُكَلَّم ِتْوَمْلا ْيِذَّلا َلِّكُو ْمُكِب َّمُث ىٰلِا ْمُكِّبَر َنْوُعَجْرُت— Meaning that: ‘The angel that guards over you will cause you to die, and then you will be returned to your Lord. ’ And as He says at another occasion in the Holy Quran: [ Surah al-‘Ankab u t, 29:58 ] ُّلُك ٍسْفَن ُةَقِٕىٓاَذ ِتْوَمْلا١۫ َّمُث اَنْيَلِا َنْوُعَجْرُت— Meaning that: ‘Every soul shall taste death, and then you shall be returned to