Haqiqatul-Wahi (The Philosophy of Divine Revelation) — Page 850
850 AL-ISTIFTA' SUPPLEMENT TO ḤAQIQATUL-WAḤI down from the heavens. Thus did God Almighty keep your minds and thoughts from understanding this illuminating truth, so that He may make you realize that you cannot grasp the mysteries and secrets of the God of Majesty. It is from the ways of Allah to teach you the etiquettes of expressing your opinion. Hence, the matter remained dubious to you so that He may put you to the test; then, after that, He caused it to be manifested after keeping it hidden. What can be a greater sin than this: Allah gives the news of the death of ‘Īsā in the Holy Quran; He mentions that on the Day of Judgment ‘Īsā will plead that he died before the apostasy of his people and has no knowledge about it, as has been mentioned earlier; and the Holy Prophet sa says that he saw 'Isa among the dead with Ilyās [Elijah] during the night of Mi'rāj;¹ yet you raise him with his physical body to the heavens! I have not seen anything stranger than this! What is the matter with you that you do not understand? What I have said in this regard is decisive; you cannot flee from it. You insist on him being alive, yet you fail to present an argument for it. وَمَنْ أَصْدَقُ مِنَ اللهِ قِيلاً The only answer you have to this is that your forefathers adhered to the same belief, even though they might have fallen away from the right path. What is the value of the thoughts of those who were born after the Companions—indeed, three centuries later? They had no right to interpret the news [of the unseen] conveyed by Allah before those events had actually taken place. Due respect called for leaving the issue of the origins of this spring to Allah. Indeed, such has been the practice of the 1. The spiritual ascension of the Holy Prophet Muḥammadsa to Heaven, which is recorded in both the Holy Quran and the Hadith, wherein he met the pre- vious Prophets. [Publisher] 2. And who can be more truthful than Allah in word? (Surah an-Nisa', 4:123) [Publisher]