Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 58
58 Jesus was sitting alive on the heavens. That noble prophet was the most beloved of all the prophets not only to his companions but also to Almighty God. It was on account of the Divine love for God's chosen Prophet that when the Christians rejected His beloved Apostle and defied a weak mortal, the jealousy of God ordained it that one of the servants of Muhammad, may peace and the blessings of God be upon him, should be made the like of the supposed deity and granted a far greater share of Divine grace and blessings than he, so that the Christians may know that all grace is in the hands of God. With this object Almighty God has raised me among the Muslims In short, it was one of the objects of sending a like of Jesus, son of Mary among the Muslims that his supposed divinity should le brought to naught. It is as much against the Divine laws that men should go up to heaven with the physical body and inhabit those celestial regions, as that the angels should be embodied in flesh and inhabit the terrestrial globe. " And the laws of God are never changed " says the Holy Quran. (Vol. II E. E. 1903. ) Did Jesus son of Mary Peace be on him mount up into Heaven bodily? It is the height of absurdity to hold such a doctrine in face of all authority when th. ere is not a single instance of it. in the Word of God. Our Holy Prophet Muhammad may peace and blessings of God be upon him, was asked by the unbelievers to mount up into heaven, and he was commanded to point out to them the absurdity of such- a question in. the sublime words: D y*) );^^) ^ J-& ^j ^^H J- "Say: Praise be to my Lord! am I more than a maa, an apostle?" If there is any, truth in this answer, it may well be asked, was Jesus more than a man that he was taken up into heaven without any request? Again the Holy Quran speaks only of Jesus' having been raised