The Advent of the Promised Messiah — Page 8
Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad 8 world that makes a distinction between people in the application of a particular term. Of course, such distinc- tion holds with God Almighty, for He is One and without partner. Show me any lexicon which specifically states that tawaffa means ‘bodily ascension to heaven alive’ when used for Jesus but ‘death’ when it is used for the rest of the world. Show me any lexicon which makes such a distinction, and if you fail to do so—and surely you will—then fear God Almighty because this is a source of associating partners with God. As a result of this very error, the Muslims remain subdued by the Christians. The Christians could assert that since you consider the Messiah to be alive in heaven, and believe in his return as well, and also that he would come as an Arbitrator, then what doubt remains as regards his divinity, especially when it is not proven that he will ever die? What a pity it would be if a Christian poses a question and there is no answer. Therefore , the evil effect of this error has reached great extremes. It is true that in reality the death of the Messiah was not such a grand issue for which such a