A Critical Review of the Pamphlet, 'Fateh-e-Qadian' — Page 82
82 A critical Review of the Pamphlet—‘f a te h -e-Qadian’ ‘ I s a as ] was alive at the time when this verse was revealed. Then how is it possible for any intelligent man to believe that the same word which gives news of the death of 124,000 Prophets, suddenly changes its meaning and instead of the death of Jesus, it now means that he has been taken to the Heavens [alive]? If words start changing their meaning in this way, then every statement can be interpreted to mean anything with anyone’s wishes. One could take death to mean life and life to mean death. You can call a scholar, an ignorant man and an ignorant man a scholar. You can call night, day, and day, night. In short, there will be such upheaval that the world of communication would be turned upside down. Testimony of the Companions of the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa Still, if one is not fully satisfied, we present an irrefutable testimony of the Companions of the Holy Prophet sa (may Allah be pleased with them), after which there should remain not the least bit of doubt that according to the Companions - the meaning of the verse (And Muhammad sa is only a messenger. Verily, all Messengers have passed away before him) was that all the Prophets before the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa had died and none of them lived physically in the Heavens. An incident is reported in the books of history and authentic a ha d i th , including S a hih Bukh a ri , that when the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa passed away, the Companions ra were deeply grief stricken as though they were mad. Some could not believe that their