Invitation to Ahmadiyyat — Page 40
40 Prophet s as himself and all the interpreters agree that it is meant to signify his high status. They have no choice but to do so because they know that the Holy Prophet s as was born in a respectable household of the Quraish in Mecca and his father’s name was Abdullah and his mother was Amina. Here is the verse wherein the nuz u l of the Holy Prophet s as is described: اًلْوُسَّر اْوُلْتَّي ْمُكْيَلَع ِتٰيٰا ِهّٰللا ٍتٰنِّيَبُم َجِرْخُيِّل َنْيِذَّلا اْوُنَمٰا َو اوُلِمَع ْدَق َلَزْنَا ُهّٰللا ْمُكْيَلِا اًرْكِذ۰۰ۙ 38 ِتٰحِلّٰصلا َنِم ِتٰمُلُّظلا ىَلِا ِرْوُّنلا١ؕ Allah has indeed sent down to you a Reminder—a Messenger, who recites unto you the clear Signs of Allah, that he may bring those who believe and do good deeds out of every kind of darkness into light. It is strange that the word nuz u l is used with respect to both the Holy Prophet s as and the Messiah and yet for each of them it is interpreted in a different way. If the Holy Prophet s as was born on this earth and the word nuz u l has been used to describe his com - ing, then what is the difficulty in applying the same meaning to the nuz u l of the Messiah? The third difficulty that is raised with regard to the second coming of the Messiah is that the one who is supposed to come has been named in Hadith as ‘Īsā ibn Maryam, which seems to mean that the self-same Jesus, son of Mary, will come back a second time. The critics do not consider that in their own poetic verses they fre - quently use the name ‘Īsā as a metaphor for certain people; why then do they find it so strange if the Holy Quran does the same? They also constantly use the name H a tim al- Ta’i as a metaphor for a generous person, Tu s i for a person with a philosophical bent of