True Insights into the Concept of Khatm-e-Nubuwwat — Page 119
A Review of the Pakistani Government’s “White Paper”: Qadiyaniyyat—A Grave Threat to Islam [ 119 ] nents declare to be reliable, states that the coming of a new person in the spirit of Jesus is a rational doctrine. Indeed, Ibn-e-Khaldun has said so in very clear words and has expounded his reasons for its validity. ‘All a mah Iqb a l was actually raised under the influence of western civilization and he viewed Islamic teachings in the light of the Western philosophy. The fact is that he nei- ther agreed with the Ahmadiyya perspective, nor with the perspective of our opposing clerics. All he says is that the Ahmadiyya doctrine is more rational and logical than the non-Ahmadi doctrine. But he does not go into his own belief. If Jesus is Dead, How Will He Return? If you look at what the ‘All a mah thinks of the Second Com- ing of the Messiah, we find he totally denies it. He claims all these a ha d i th and other writings about the Second Coming of the Messiah and associated narrations are not true. So we have Ibn-e-Qayyim saying that stories about Jesus as ascending to the heavens are fiction and ‘All a mah Iqb a l say- ing that the stories about Jesus as descending from the heav- ens are fiction. In one of his poems, written in 1905, he says: