Hazrat Isa A.S.

[psyah]

Re: Hazrat Isa A.S.

@kchughtai

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…’

Peace kchughtai

I’ve already explained this … If it means “I will cause you to die” then the words since being in future tense do not provide any information of whether the death itself has happened yet … I’m not interpreting anything. I’m only stating the limit of the claim we can make given the language in Arabic grammar.

Unless you can provide a statement that says “I caused him to die” or “he was caused to die” …where the setting is in our past … Then there no way to determine that death has happened.

Now for translation …

“I will take you and raise you up to Me”

Take you here can mean protect you, fulfil my promise to you, or take you away from that danger ..

Raise you up to Me - would hence mean to heaven, or a heavenly domain.

According to some the combination could mean cause to go in to a sleep and lifted bodily out of this realm.

It could also mean taken as a whole person and elevated and thereby raised in rank.

It is not too hard to work out the subtle meanings for both …