Guidance for Perceiving Minds — Page 104
h a d rat Mirza ghulam AHmAD as 104 like captives. So, they invented the trick of Jesus’ ascension to heaven, hoping to purify him from the curse by this slander. There was no escape from that famous incident that became known among the elite and the common people. The cross neces- sitates a curse as per the agreement of all the Jewish groups and their great scholars. Therefore, the story of Jesus’ ascension with his body was invented as a ploy to exonerate him. It was not accepted due to the lack of witnesses, so they returned, forced to accept the obligation of the curse, and they said that Jesus as bore it to save his community. These excuses were nothing but an act at random; then, after a while, they followed their desires, and intentionally made the son of Mary as as a partner to Allah. So, the ascension of Jesus as and his bearing of the curse became a belief among the Christians after three hundred years. Then Muslims followed some of their ideol- ogies during the dark age after passing of the [first] three centuries [of Islam]. And know, may Allah guide you, that our Messenger, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, did see Jesus as on the night of the Mi‘r a j among the souls of dead. Indeed, there is a sign in this for those endowed with reason. Every believer’s soul is raised after death, and the gates of heaven are opened for him. So, how did Jesus as reach the dead and their places even though he was alive? Know that it is false and has no truth in it. It was fabricated when the Jews mocked and cursed him based on the text of the Torah. It is not said that Jesus as met the dead as our Prophet s as met them on the night of Mi‘r a j. According to the correct doctrine, the Mi‘r a j was a sublime vision with spiritual awakening, as is not hidden from the enlightened mind. Only the spirit of our Master