The Essence of Islam – Volume III — Page 227
The Messiah and his Second Coming 227 thousands of years, were revived and all of them walked into the city alive. . Anyone with wisdom can easily understand that despite the fact that millions of the dead who had been revived walked into the city and told their tales to their descendants and confirmed the truth of Jesusas, the Jews still did not believe in him. Who would credit such hard-heartedness? Indeed, if. Jesus occupied himself with reviving thousands of the dead it must be recognized that the revived ones could not all have been deaf and dumb. Some of them must have been the brothers, fathers, sons, mothers, grandmothers, grandfathers and other near relatives of those who witnessed these miracles. Thus Jesus as had open to him a vast scheme for converting the disbelievers. Many of the revived dead who were related to the contemporary Jews, must have accompanied Jesusas, and he must have arranged for them to deliver public addresses in a number of cities that must have been heard with great interest and eagerness. For instance, when a revived one told his audience, ‘Many of you who are present here know me as I was buried by your hands. . Now I have come to you after having heard from God's own tongue that Jesus is true and he has revived me'. . This would have had a deep affect on the Jews and thousands upon thousands of them would have believed in him. . But the Holy Qur'ān and the Gospels affirm that the Jews had totally rejected Jesus as and that he was the least successful of the Prophets in his work of reform, and almost all the Jews considered him an impostor and a liar. . It is worth reflecting: should this have been the result of such a great supernatural miracle? When thousands of the revived dead testified to the truth of Jesus as and affirmed that they had seen heaven which contained only the Christians who believed in Jesus, and that they had