Invitation to Ahmadiyyat — Page 41
41 mind, and R adi for someone who possesses the faculty of dialec - tical reasoning, but when it comes to the name Ibn Maryam they start having doubts. If applying such names to people does not mean that they actually belong to the Ta’i clan, or are residents of Tu s, how then is it inferred from the use of the name Ibn Maryam that the one who is to come will be the same Jesus, son of Mary, Prophet of God, who passed away 1900 years ago? What is more, the names Ha tim, Tu s i , and R adi in themselves have no meaning that can be employed as a metaphor, whereas Maryam is a name used by the Holy Quran to describe a spiritual state. Allah says: َو َبَرَض ُهّٰللا اًلَثَم َنْيِذَّلِّل اوُنَمٰا َتَاَرْما َنْوَعْرِف١ۘ ْذِا ْتَلاَق ِّبَر ِنْبا ْيِل َكَدْنِع اًتْيَب يِف ِةَّنَجْلا َو َو َمَيْرَم َتَنْبا َنٰرْمِع ْۤيِتَّلا ْتَنَصْحَا ْيِنِّجَن ْنِم َنْوَعْرِف َو ٖهِلَمَع َو ْيِنِّجَن َنِم ِمْوَقْلا َنْيِمِلّٰظلا۰۰ۙ 39 اَهَجْرَف اَنْخَفَنَف ِهْيِف ْنِم اَنِحْوُّر َو ْتَقَّدَص ِتٰمِلَكِب اَهِّبَر َو ٖهِبُتُك َو ْتَناَك َنِم َنْيِتِنٰقْلا۰۰ؒ And Allah sets forth for those who believe the example of the wife of Pharaoh when she said, ‘My Lord! build for me a house with You in the Garden; and deliver me from Pharaoh and his work, and deliver me from the wrong - doing people;’ And the example of Mary, the daughter of ‘Imran, who guarded her private parts—so We breathed into him of Our Spirit—and she fulfilled in her person the words of her Lord and His Books and was one of the obedient. Now, when God gives the name ‘Maryam’ to a certain spiritual state of a believer and then describes someone who will come in the future as ‘Ibn Maryam’, does it not follow that this person will progress from the state of ‘Maryam’ until he reaches the state of ‘Ibn Maryam’? That is to say, while his earlier life would be pure