Re: Hazrat Isa A.S.
peace psyah,
It is ok for you to make interpretations of Quranic verses as you like. Actually, in this case, you are putting your ideas at a higher precedence and trying to fit Quran as your liking. What is the basis of your saying that the ‘cause thee to die a natural death’, the first promise, has not happened yet. It is a pure conjecture and it goes against this verse. The words of Allah are not ordinary and even the order in which certain facts are presented is full of meaning. 3:55, says. ‘I will cause thee to die’ and ‘will raise thee’. Now if death has not happened yet then ‘Rafa’ hasn’t happened yet either. Here people rely on the crutches of ‘Taqdeem-o-takheer’ and put ‘rafa’ before death. This amounts to manipulation of the word of Allah, nothing less.
If we resort to your meaning ‘I will take you up’ then the translation becomes pretty strange and beyond eloquence. see
‘I will take you up and will raise you…’