Flowers for the Women Wearing Veils - Volume I — Page 42
! ! 42 “ Muhammad is but a messenger. Verily, all Messengers have passed away before him. ” (Holy Qur’ān , Ch. 3: V. 145) Muhammad sa is a messenger of Allah and all the messenge rs before him have died. Now, either we c ould say that Haz rat Jesus as was not a messenger, but was god, and therefore he did not die. However, it i s kufr [disbelief] to consider him god. I f he was a messenger, which he trul y was, then he has passed away because the Holy Qur’ān clearly stat es that all messengers before the Holy Prophet sa have died. The Holy Qur’ān declares that Hazrat Jesus as is dead and whoever has passed away cannot come back to the world, as it is against Allah’s practice. Why should God Almighty resurrect a dead man and bring him back to this worl d? God Almighty is All - Powerful. For the reformation of mankind, t here is no need for Him to send a man who passed away ages ago when He can appoint a new individual. In this world, w e do not see a r ich and wealthy person put aside the leftovers of one of his meal s to be consumed in a meal he will have later. Indeed, the poor certainly do so. However, to say that God Almighty has set aside the same Hazrat Jesus as who was born several hundred years ago to fulfill a need that was to arise in the future is tantamount to declaring God to be a poor and destitute God. It is equivalent to denying that He is All - Powerful. This is because God Almighty has the ability to create no t only one Jesus as , but many. He can send them whenever the need arises. Whenever previous prophets have passed away, He has s ent more prophets to follow. He did not resurrect the same prophets from before and send them again. W hat then could be the reason for sending Haz rat Jesus as again? This is an absurd belief, which has spread among Muslims. However, the meaning behind the prophecy of the coming of Ha z rat Jesus as wa s that a man with the attributes of Jesus as would appear and that individual is in fact Ha z rat Mirza Sahib as who has come and has been appointed as Hazrat Jesus as to reform the ‘Jews’.