Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part V — Page 527
Reply to the doubts raised by rashĪd a H mad gangohĪ 527 Jews, and some Arab sects held as deities and worshipped. Keep in mind that this is the declaration of God, and God Almighty is above and free from saying things that are contrary to facts. So when He says in clear and explicit words that all human beings who are worshipped and taken as ‘God’ by different faiths are dead—and not one of them is alive—then what level of defiance, disobedience, and contradiction of the commandment of God is it to consider Hadrat ‘ I s a, may peace be upon him, to still be alive. Is Hadrat ‘ I s a , may peace be upon him, not among those who have been deified or those who are beseeched to help resolve difficulties? Indeed he is the foremost among those peo- ple, because the insistence and exaggeration with which 400 million people are striving claim divinity for Hadrat ‘ I s a , is not to be found in any other faith. All the verses that I have quoted here are sufficient to prove the death of Hadrat ‘ I s a, may peace be upon him. And the same is also sub- stantiated when we look at the blessed a ha d i th of the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him—the only difference being that, while God testifies to the death of Hadrat ‘ I s a with His Word, the Holy Prophet, may peace be upon him, does so through his eyewitness testimony. Thus, God with His Word, and the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, with his action—i. e. by his eyewitness account—have put a seal on the fact that Hadrat ‘ I s a has died. For the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, testifies by his eyewitness account that on the night of the Mi‘raj [Spiritual Ascension] he saw Hadrat ‘ I s a in Heaven among the previ- ous Prophets who had passed away from this world and had reached the next world. Not only that, but he saw the same kind of body for Hadrat ‘ I s a as those for other Prophets, may peace be upon them. Moreover, I have already explained that it is an error to think that it is only the souls of the earlier Prophets, may peace be upon them, who have passed away from this world that are present in Heaven; rather, they have with them luminous and glorious bodies with which they were raised from