The Essence of Islam – Volume III — Page 202
202. Essence of Islam-III incapable of discharging his obligations towards his fellow beings and from carrying out the duty of enjoining virtue and forbidding vice? Had he continued to live on earth during these 1891 years, how beneficial his person would have been for God's creatures! The only result of his bodily ascent to heaven was that his people went astray and he himself was totally deprived of the opportunity to carry out the functions of Prophethood. [Izāla-e-Auhām, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, vol. 3, pp. 330-332]. We have established fully that the belief that Jesus had ascended bodily to heaven is not supported by the Holy. Qur'an and true Aḥādīth. It seems to be based upon senseless and contradictory speculation. In this philosophical age, which is accompanied by cultured reason and sharpness of intellect, it would be a great mistake to hope for religious success on the basis of such doctrines. If these meaningless speculations were to be presented to the illiterate Bedouins of Arabia, or the inhabitants of the deserts of Africa, or the wild dwellers of the far off islands in the oceans, they might gain some acceptance; but we cannot hope to propagate among educated people such doctrines as are utterly opposed to reason, experience, laws of nature and philosophy. Moreover, they cannot be attributed to the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him); indeed they contradict the Aḥādīth. Nor can we present such doctrines as a gift to the scholars of Europe and. America who are discarding the absurdities of their own respective faiths. How can those, whose hearts and minds have been developed by the light of new kinds of knowledge, accept such concepts which are disrespectful to God. Almighty, denigrate His Unity, falsify His Law and abrogate the teachings of His Books?. The notion that Jesus will descend bodily from heaven is