Bounties of the Gracious God — Page 63
Our Beliefs in Brief 63 Day of Judgment, then we have to accept that when he is ques- tioned about his people in the Presence of Allah, he will speak untruth. So, reflect upon Allah’s statement: 1 َّاسِ َ لِل�ن ت ُل�ۡ ت � َ ت �ۡ ن َ ا ہّٰللُّٰ �یٰع�ِی ۡسَی ا�ب�ۡ ن َ مَر�ۡیَم َ ءَأ�َ َال ت � ۡ ن إ�ِ And, reflect again, whether Jesus, in the face of the false notion of these people who, under the influence of their diabolical sus- picions, want to bring him back to this world, employed truth in his answer or falsehood. If it is indeed true that Jesus will return to this world before Doomsday, the Day of Resurrection, and destroy the cross and bring the Christians into the pale of Islam, then how will he be able to say that after his ascension into the heavens he had no knowledge of what his people did? How would this statement be correct when, after his return to earth, he would have gained intimate knowledge of the idolatrous beliefs of the Christians and found that having become subdued by their selfish desires they began to treat him and his mother as gods. To answer in such a way before the Majestic God would be a manifest evil, a bare-faced lie and audacity. It is a wonder how he would not shy away from such a lie and utter such falsehood before the All- Knowing and Omniscient God while the fact would be that he would have returned to this world, killed the Christians, broken the cross and put the swine to death with a well-honed sword. What is more, he would not have stayed here for only a moment or so, like a traveller who passes through a place without actually 1. When Allah will say, ‘O Jesus, son of Mary, didst thou say to men?’ ( S u rah al-M a ’idah, 5:117) [Publisher]