The Essence of Islam – Volume III — Page 209
The Messiah and his Second Coming 209 as Faij-e-A'waj¹81. It is concerning these people that he said: لَيُسُوا مِنِّي وَلَسْتُ مِنْهُمُ 'They are not of me and I am not of them. ". In adopting such a belief, they transgressed from the. Holy Qur'an in four ways. They cannot cite any verse or any Hadith in support of the fiction that Jesus as had ascended bodily to heaven. They deceive the common people by adding the word heaven to the word Nuzul, whereas it does not occur in any Hadith whose accuracy is beyond doubt. In Arabic, the word Nuzul merely means 'arrival', like the arrival of a traveller. In our own country, the equivalent of Nuzul is used for the arrival of a stranger and no one has the slightest notion that such a one descends from heaven. A thorough search of the books of Hadith of all Muslim sects would not produce a single Hadith of any kind stating that Jesus as had ascended bodily to heaven and would return to earth in some later age. If anyone should set forth such a Ḥadīth, we are prepared to pay him as much as twenty thousand rupees as penalty; we shall also publish a confession of our mistake and burn all our books. Let anyone who wishes come forward to satisfy himself. [Kitāb-ul-Bariyyah, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, vol. 13, pp. 219-226 footnote]. That Jesus, son of Mary, will appear in the world by way of transmigration of souls is the worst and most shameful of notions. Those who believe in the transmigration of souls, believe that only an impure person would return to this life, but that those who leave the world, having 181 The time of great distortions. - [Publisher]