Guidance for Perceiving Minds — Page 105
105 and Prophet s as had ascended to heaven with a luminous body and not his physical body created from dust. It is not possible for an earthly body to be raised to heaven; this is a promise from Allah, the Lord of Power and Glory. If you are in doubt, read, 1 ًا � َت ََأَْمَْوَا َو ًءً � َا ْي ْ ِح َأَ ًا � َت َا َِف� ْك َ َْض� َّر َالَ ِ ا ْل َْعَ َْج� � ْن ْ ِم َ ل َأَ So ponder, do you deny the Quran for the sake of the son of Mary as ? Fear Allah out of piety, and look at His saying, 2 ْ ِْي� َِن� َْت� َْي� �ََوََّف َت� َا ٰم ََلَ � َّف And do not harm your Lord as you harmed me. The idolaters asked our Master, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, to ascend to the heaven if he was truthful and accepted [by God]. It was said, 3 ً َال ْ َو َُّرَُس ًا َّر َ ََش� � ِب ِإَالَ ُ � َت ْ � ِن ُ ْك َْهَْل ْ ِْي� � � ِب َ َّر َ َن� َْحَا � َب ُُْلْ ُس ُق� So, what do you think, is not the son of Mary as a human being like the Best of Messengers s as ? Or do you forge lies against Allah and give Jesus as precedence over the Best of the Prophets s as ? Indeed, Jesus as did not ascend to heaven. Surely, the curse of 1. Have We not made the earth so as to hold, the living and the dead? ( S u rah al-Mursal a t, 77:25–26) [Publisher] 2. But since Thou didst cause me to die ( S u rah al-M a’ idah, 5:118). [Publisher] 3. Say, ‘Holy is my Lord! I am not but a man sent as a Messenger’ ( S u rah Ban i Isr a’i l, 17:94). [Publisher]