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T HE W IL L—AL-WA T HE W IL L—AL-WA S S IY YAT IY YAT 18 this world and had he [having returned to this world] broken the Cross, then in that case it would not be possible that ‘ I s a as, who is a Prophet as of God, should tell such a blatantly plain lie in the presence of God on the Day of Judgment viz. , ‘I have no knowl- edge whatsoever that after me my people adopted a false creed and made me and my mother gods’. Can a person who returns to this world and lives in it for forty years and fights battles against Christians, tell such detestable lie—i. e. ‘I am totally ignorant of it all’—even though he is a Prophet? Thus the above verse prevents the return of ‘ I s a as, because, otherwise, he has to be taken for a liar. If he is in Heaven with his physical body and, as the above verse elucidates, will not descend on the earth till the Day of Judgment, will he die in Heaven and will his grave be in Heaven, while his dying in Heaven is contradicted by the verse 1 اَهْيِف َنْوُتْوُمَت. Hence, all this proves that he [‘ I s a as] did not ascend to Heaven with his phys- ical body but went to Heaven after having died. If to oppose the Book of God, when it has given an explicit verdict, is not a sin, then what else is sin? Had I not come, such a simple error of judgment would have been forgivable. But now that I have come from God and the true and explicit meanings of the Holy Quran have been clarified, even then not to give up false beliefs is not the way of those who are honest. For me the Signs of God were manifested in the heaven as well as the earth. About one fourth of the century has elapsed. And thousands of signs have appeared. The age of the world has entered its seventh millennium. What kind of hard-heartedness is this that even now you do not accept the truth! Look! I proclaim 1. ‘Therein [on the Earth] shall you die’ ( S u rah al-A‘r a f, 7:26). [Publisher]