Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth — Page 735
JESUS VERSUS FINALITY contradiction to Him, then comes forward to help Him save. His face from it. This blatant attempt is not made without a purpose. To the Mullah it is a great idea having multiple advantages. . It saves the life of Jesus from an ignoble death upon the cross and frustrates his enemies' attempts to prove him false. Imagine their exasperation at finding Jesus escape their clutches by vanishing into thin air (if there is any air at all in the fourth heaven where he is assumed to have ascended). But this measure must also have created another small problem for God. When and why he should be brought back to earth must have been the question. After all he could not be left abandoned in his heavenly confine till. Doomsday. As far as God is concerned the problem does not exist. As far as the Mullah is concerned the problem is created by him to hide his own contradiction of believing in the finality of the Holy Prophets, as well as believing in the re-advent of Jesus as as a prophet after him. That is the only reason why he connects the verse of Khātamun-Nabiyyeen with the imaginary ascent of Jesusas. He does it with a cunning deceitfulness which cannot be detected by the ordinary Muslim masses. The following is the case he builds: 1. . Jesus was lifted to heaven with a purpose and will be brought back finally to earth. 2. The coming of an old prophet after the last one had appeared would not break the seal of his finality. 3. . The need for a new prophet in the latter days will be fulfilled without creating any dilemma of contradiction in God's Decree. . There are some who kill two birds with one stone but the orthodoxy seems to know how to kill three with one! In reality however, by shifting the twist of their own mind to 693