Malfuzat – Volume X — Page 415
3 May 1908 415 َو اَم ٌدَّمَحُم اَّلِا ٌلْوُسَر١ۚ ْدَق ْتَلَخ ْنِم ِهِلْبَق ُلُسُّرلا١ؕ ْنِٕىۡاَفَا َتاَّم ْوَا َلِتُق ْمُتْبَلَقْنا َو اَم ٌدَّمَحُم اَّلِا ٌلْوُسَر١ۚ ْدَق ْتَلَخ ْنِم ِهِلْبَق ُلُسُّرلا١ؕ ْنِٕىۡاَفَا َتاَّم ْوَا َلِتُق ْمُتْبَلَقْنا 1 اخل ىٰۤلَع ْمُكِباَقْعَا. . . . ىٰۤلَع ْمُكِباَقْعَا. . . . Upon hearing this verse, the Companions, may Allah be pleased with them, broke down and wept bitterly, feeling as if the verse had just been revealed on that very day. Even Hazrat Umar ra who was in such a frenzy going around with his drawn sword believing that the Holy Prophet s as had not yet died, put down his sword after that sermon and never made any such statement thereafter. Now, it is quite obvious that even if a single person from among the Companions ra had believed that Jesus as was living in Heaven with his physical body, why wouldn’t they have raised the objection, asking, ‘How is it possible that the Messenger sent to a small nation is yet alive, while our Prophet—who was sent by God for the entire world and all the generations to come till Doomsday with no exception—didn’t live for even sev- enty years? Accordingly, the silence of the Companions ra and their failure to object is clear proof that all the Companions ra believed that Jesus as had died like all the other Prophets. Not one of them believed that he was sitting on the right hand of God alive with his physical body. This was the very first ijma [consensus] in Islam. The second verse which has been mentioned with specific reference to Jesus as , is the statement of Jesus as himself that he will submit to God on the Day of Judgement, that: 1. And Muhammad is only a Messenger. Verily, all Messengers have passed away before him. If then he die or be slain, will you turn back on your heels? ( S u rah A l-e-‘Imr a n, 3:145) [Publisher]