Bounties of the Gracious God — Page 68
68 which are for the people who contemplate. So Allah has clearly declared the death of the Son of Mary in the verse1 ْ ی �ِ �َن ت �ْ ی �َّ ن �ََو ت َلَمَّا � ن �. And, just as it has already been mentioned, by using the term ‘death’ Allah has also explained that he will not return to the world now. Also, during the night of Mi‘r a j, our Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, saw him sitting with John, and wisdom does not warrant that a living person should be des- patched to the world of the dead, and evidently the one who is joined to the dead is from among them. Those who do not ponder upon the Book of Allah and whose hearts do not seek the truth and wisdom, they say that it is proven that Jesus is alive, for H asan al-Ba s r i said that Jesus did not die and shall return in the latter days. The answer to this is that we do not believe in anyone from Basra or Egypt. We only believe in al-Furq a n (the Holy Quran) and in the word of our Prophet who was bestowed the true knowledge by the Gracious God. You have already heard what is written in the Quran and Hadith, so there is no need for you now to demand for more arguments. From Adam to our Prophet, the Best of Mankind, death is associated to all proph- ets. Therefore, how can Jesus be excluded from this phenomenon that has been in operation from generation to generation, and especially when all the righteous people were subjected to the same phenomenon and now we too are heirs to these righteous people in terms of this phenomenon? What is more, among the aforementioned proofs are historical events and the testimonies that have been recorded in the books of medicine. And those who peruse the pages of these books that 1. Since Thou didst cause me to die ( S u rah al-M a ’idah, 5: 118). [Publisher]