A Critical Review of the Pamphlet, 'Fateh-e-Qadian' — Page 79
REVIVAL of Islam LiEs in PROVING the Death of Jesus 79 mentioned verse establishes the death of Jesus. Otherwise, he will have to be accepted as someone outside the group of holy messengers, which is clearly wrong. Shedding further light on this matter, the Holy Quran says that the mother of Jesus [ Hadrat ‘ I s a as ] was a truthful woman and both of them used to eat food. It is worth reflecting that if Jesus was still alive, should the words in this verse: ‘used to eat food’ have been used for him? Certainly not! In such a case, the mention of Jesus should have been made separately from Mary [ Hadrat Maryam as ] and the statement should be something like ‘Mary used to eat food and Jesus still eats food and will continue to eat till the day of his death’. But this has not been stated. Therefore, by making a mention of Jesus together with Mary [ Hadrat Maryam as ] as people in the past tense, the matter is further clarified that the station of Jesus was no more than that of a messenger, and as other messengers had died, so had he. As the rest of them needed food so did he; and he did not possess the Divine attribute of living without food. Despite the presence of this verse, if someone believes that Jesus is still alive, it will only be out of his own high-handedness. Some Far-Fetched Interpretations To exclude Jesus [ Hadrat ‘ I s a as ] from the subject of this verse, some people make far-fetched interpretations of this verse. For instance, they contend that although Allah has stated in this verse that all the Prophets before Jesus had passed away, He did not say that Jesus