Christianity - A Journey from Facts to Fiction — Page 169
Conclusion 169 are awaiting the reappearance of Christ as for the last so many centuries that: ‘Remember very well that no one shall ever come down from heaven. All our opponents who are alive today shall die and none from them shall ever see Jesus as son of Mary as coming down from heaven; then their children that are left after them shall also die and none from among them shall ever see Jesus as son of Mary as coming down from heaven and then their third generation shall also die and they, too, shall not see the son of Mary as coming down. Then God shall cause great consternation in their minds and they shall then say that even the age of the domination of the Cross has passed away and the way of life has changed completely, yet the son of Mary as has not come down. Then in dismay the wise among them shall forsake this belief and three centuries from now shall not have passed when those who await the coming of Jesus as son of Mary as , whether they be Muslims or Christians, shall relinquish altogether this conception. ’ * So you may wait until a new generation is born, and they will also wait until they have run their course and a new generation would take over. This state of waiting may continue till the end of the time, but no Jesus as will bodily descend from heaven. The dreams of his personal visit will never come true, no matter how much those who wait crave him to return. They may even build a wailing wall for themselves as the Jews did more than three * Tadhkiratul-Shahadatain, Ruhani Khzain , Vol. 20, p. 67