Malfuzat – Volume X — Page 173
26 February 1908 173 a second time and corrected the false beliefs of the Christians, he would have submitted it resolutely that, ‘ O Allah! I fought formidable conflicts and after suffering many an affliction, I established Your Tauhid [the Oneness of God] among them in place of their idolatrous beliefs and doctrines—I merit far greater rewards than to be asked such a question!’ In short, it is clear from his statement that he has died and would not come back to this world again. Then, the Holy Prophet saw him among the dead on the night of Mi’raj [Spiritual Ascension]. What relation can there be between the living and the dead? If Jesus was alive then why did he go and join the dead? Besides this, there are hundreds of other places in the Holy Quran which prove his death. The strange thing is that when this very same word tawaffi is used for others, it is interpreted to mean ‘death’, but when it is used for Jesus, it is interpreted differently. It is not known why this distinction is given to Jesus as. There is the prayer of Joseph as that: 1 ْيِنَّفَوَت اًمِلْسُم َّو ْيِنْقِحْلَا َنْيِحِلّٰصلاِب ْيِنَّفَوَت اًمِلْسُم َّو ْيِنْقِحْلَا َنْيِحِلّٰصلاِب Apart from this there are scores of other places where the word ْ ِّی تَوَف ْ ِّی تَوَف [ tawaffi ] has been used precisely in the meaning of death. No one can show that when this word tawaffi is used as a verb with Allah as the subject and a living being as the object, that it can have any other meaning than death. 1. Let death come to me in a state of submission to Your will and join me to the righteous ( S u rah Y u suf, 12:102). [Publisher]