Life of Ahmad — Page 304
JESUS as IS DEAD as 304 and death; to refute these charges Allah says that He exalted him and made him honourable in His presence. There are no words here to show that Jesus as was taken up to heaven both in body and in soul. Every Muslim prays while sitting in his S al a t but no sane person would ever believe that it means bodily uplifting of the devotee. Allah is not confined to the blue sky. He is Omnipresent. If Jesus as is gone to Him he should also be wherever He exists. It is really an idiom expressive of one’s spiritual dignity and honour. There is a tradition in the Muslim , the well-known authority in Hadith, which throws a flood of light on this point and clearly shows that even if the word (sky) had been used here instead of Allah, even then the verse could not have meant anything else but spiritual honour and exaltation. It runs as follows: a 'When a person shows humility, Allah lifts him up to the seventh heaven. ' Will the mullahs draw the same conclusion here also? Will they believe that every act of humility literally lifts a person up to heaven in both body and spirit? Certainly, there can be no bigger folly than such an inference. Why then draw such inferences in the case of Jesus as ? Why should he be sent up to heaven alive? Was not this earth sufficient for him?