Guidance for Perceiving Minds — Page 105
GUIDANCE FOR PERCEIVING MINDS 105 and Prophetsas had ascended to heaven with a luminous body and not his physical body created from dust. It is not possible for an earthly body to be raised to heaven; this is a promise from Allah, the Lord of Power and Glory. If you are in doubt, read, أَلَمْ نَجْعَلِ الْأَرْضَ كِفَاتًا أَحْيَاءً وَأَمْوَاتًا So ponder, do you deny the Quran for the sake of the son of Marys? Fear Allah out of piety, and look at His saying, فَلَمَّا تَوَفَّيْتَنِي And do not harm your Lord as you harmed me. The idolaters asked our Master, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, to ascend to the heaven if he was truthful and accepted [by God]. It was said, قُلْ سُبْحَانَ رَبِّي هَلْ كُنْتُ إِلَّا بَشَرًا رَسُولاً * So, what do you think, is not the son of Maryas a human being like the Best of Messengersas? Or do you forge lies against Allah and give Jesusas precedence over the Best of the Prophets sas? Indeed, Jesusas did not ascend to heaven. Surely, the curse of 1. Have We not made the earth so as to hold, the living and the dead? (Surah al-Mursalāt, 77:25-26) [Publisher] 2. But since Thou didst cause me to die (Surah al-Ma'idah, 5:118). [Publisher] 3. Say, 'Holy is my Lord! I am not but a man sent as a Messenger' (Sūrah Bani Isrā'īl, 17:94). [Publisher]