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30 Quran and Hadith and logic that the Messiah has passed away, how can this belief be contrary to the Quran and Hadith? When the death of the Messiah is established by the Holy Quran and there is even a Hadith in which the Holy Prophet s as gives tiding of the coming of someone called Ibn Maryam, this clearly shows that the one whose advent has been promised will be an individual from within this ummah, and not the self-same Jesus of Nazareth who passed away. They also argue that even if the death of the Messiah is estab - lished in the light of the Holy Quran and Hadith, we should still believe in his second coming because some Traditions give the tiding of the return of Ibn Maryam. Is God not powerful enough, they ask, to resurrect the Messiah and send him back for the ref - ormation of the world? They thereby imply that we are denying God’s Omnipotence. The truth is quite to the contrary. It is not because we deny God’s Omnipotence but because we affirm God’s Omnipotence that we believe that God will not resurrect the Messiah of Nazareth and send him back to the world, and that He has instead sent an individual from this very ummah as the Promised Messiah as. We do not believe that anyone who carefully ponders over this matter will accept that resurrecting the Messiah and sending him back to the world is a sign of God’s Omnipotence. Even in this world, we see that an affluent person does not have an old garment turned for new use. It is the poor and needy who have their old garments turned and altered to be used again and again. Since when has God become so constrained that, when His servants require direction and guidance, He has to resurrect and bring back a dead Prophet from the past? The fact is that, in order to reform a people, He chooses someone from among themselves