The Essence of Islam – Volume III — Page 376
376. Essence of Islam-III. Qur'an and Ḥadīth, that Jesus son of Mary (peace be upon him) died on earth after fulfilling the span of his life in accordance with the verse: 247 فيهَا تَحْيَونَ وَفِيهَا تَمُوتُونَ 7. It is further clear on the authority of sixteen verses of the. Holy Qur'an, and a number of Aḥādīth contained in Bukhārī, Muslim and other authentic compilations, that those who die are never sent back to dwell in this world, nor is anyone subjected to death twice, nor does the Holy. Qur'an lay down any law of inheritance for anyone who might return to earth after death. Yet some of the divines insist that Jesus son of Mary has not died but was raised bodily to heaven, and is alive in his physical body. They dare to suggest that the expression Tawaffi, which has been applied to Jesus as in the Holy Qur'ān, does not connote death, rather it means taking full possession of both body and soul. But this interpretation is utterly false. In the idiom of the Holy Qur'an, this expression is consistently employed to connote taking possession of the soul and the death of the body. The same idiom is employed in all the Aḥādīth and sayings of the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. ). Ever since the Arabian peninsula has been populated and the Arabic language has come into use, there is not a single ancient or modern instance of the expression Tawaffi being employed taking possession of the body. Whenever this expression has been employed for the description of the action of God Almighty in relation to a human being, it has always connoted death and taking 247 Therein shall you live, and therein shall you die. '-Al-A'raf, 7:26 [Publisher]