Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part V — Page 528
B AR Ā H Ī N-E-A H M ADIY YA — PART F IV E 528 this world after their death—and the verse 1 َو ْيِلُخْدا ْيِتَّنَج represents a clear statement with regard to it. This is because a body is required to enter Paradise, and the Holy Quran time and again says clearly that people who will enter Paradise shall have their bodies with them; no soul shall enter Paradise just by itself. Thus, the verse 2 َو ْيِلُخْدا ْيِتَّنَج shows clearly that every righteous per- son who enters Paradise after death is necessarily granted a body after death. The second testimony to the bestowal of a body is the observa- tion of the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. For, on the night of the Mi’raj, he did not see merely the souls of the Prophets, but rather, he saw their bodies as well; and he did not see any novel body for Hadrat ‘ I s a. He saw the same kind of body for Hadrat ‘ I s a as he saw for other Prophets. Therefore, if one does not insist unfairly on following falsehood, it is very easy for him to under- stand that the body with which Hadrat ‘ I s a was raised was not the physical one, but was the body that is bestowed upon every believer after death, because God Himself bars the physical body from going to Heaven, as He says: 3 ْمَلَا ِلَعْجَن َضْرَاْلا اًتاَفِك ًءٓاَيْحَا َّو اًتاَوْمَا Translation: Have We not created the earth in a manner whereby it is drawing people’s bodies, whether dead or alive, towards itself, and does not let any of them climb to Heaven? On another occasion He says: 4 ْلُق َناَحْبُس ْيِّبَر ْلَه ُتْنُك اَّلِا اًرَشَب اًلْوُسَّر 1. And enter you My Garden ( S u rah al-Fajr, 89:31). [Publisher] 2. And enter you My Garden ( S u rah al-Fajr, 89:31). [Publisher] 3. S u rah al-Mursal a t, 77:26–27 [Publisher] 4. S u rah Ban i Isr a ‘ i l, 17:94 [Publisher]