The Essence of Islam – Volume III — Page 210
210. Essence of Islam-III completed all stages of spiritual perfection, would stay in the house of salvation for a long time. Moreover, according to our belief, God Almighty has promised that those who are admitted to heaven would never be expelled therefrom. It surprises us as to why our divines would want to bring Jesus out of paradise. They relate the tale that Enoch, with the permission of the angel of death, stepped into paradise, and when the angel asked him to come out he refused to do so and recited the verse: 182 وَمَاهُمْ مِّنْهَا بِمُخْرَجِينَ : still they assert that Jesus will return to earth from heaven. Would he not be entitled to benefit from this verse? Is this verse to be considered abrogated in reference to him? [Izāla-e-Auhām, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, vol. 3, pp. 147-148]. True Status of Jesus. I do not deny the high status of Jesusas, despite the fact that I have been informed by God that the Muḥammadī. Messiah occupies a higher status than the Mosaic Messiah. I hold Jesus son of Mary, in high esteem inasmuch as I am spiritually the Khātam-ul-Khulafā' in the Islamic dispensation, just as Jesus was Khātam-ul-Khulafā' in the Israeli dispensation. In Mosaic dispensation the son of Mary was the Promised Messiah and in the Islamic dispensation I am the Promised Messiah; so I honour greatly the one whose name I bear. Anyone who asserts that I do not hold Jesus son of Mary in high esteem is a mischief-maker and a liar. I honour not only Jesus son of 182 Nor shall they ever be ejected therefrom. '-Al-Hijr, 15:49 [Publisher]