Invitation to Ahmadiyyat — Page 183
183 Had I not sworn to myself [not to return the dead to life], I would surely have returned you. But having made that promise to Myself, I will not do it. 9 They don’t seem to understand that if God does not choose to practice an attribute that is unique to Him, how then could the Messiah of Nazareth have done it? They are misled by the follow - ing verse of the Holy Quran wherein Jesus is cited as saying, ‘I will quicken the dead. ’ 10 But when the same words are used regard - ing the Holy Prophet s as in the following verse, these same people say that here the words refer to spiritual revival and not physical resurrection: 11 اَهُّيَاٰۤي َنْيِذَّلا اوُنَمٰا اْوُبْيِجَتْسا ِهّٰلِل َو ِلْوُسَّرلِل اَذِا ْمُكاَعَد اَمِل ْمُكْيِيْحُي O ye who believe! Respond to Allah, and the Messenger when he calls you that he may give you life. When we know that the word I h y a can mean spiritual resurrec - tion, and that no one but God can bring people back to life, and that God never gives life to the dead to return them to this world, why then is the verse regarding Jesus not interpreted in a way that does not involve associating partners with God? Likewise, these so-called believers in the Oneness of God maintain that Jesus was able to create birds, even though we read in the Holy Quran that God alone is the Creator: 12 َو َنْيِذَّلا َنْوُعْدَي ْنِم ِنْوُد ِهّٰللا اَل َنْوُقُلْخَي أًـْيَش َّو ْمُه َنْوُقَلْخُي And those on whom they call beside Allah create not any - thing, but they are themselves created.