Re: Hazrat Isa A.S.
The object being taken in both cases according to the grammar is the person … The pronoun is used.
The taking of someone can be understood either literally … Or metaphorically ..
Metaphorically there are two possibilities
A) whilst the person sleeps their soul is taken (not ‘them’) as the words suggest but only their soul to another place, without (taking the life) … The soul only being a part of ‘them’ …
B) the taking of the life itself can happen which also leads on to the soul being taken out of ‘them’ rather than their whole selves taken as the bare words suggests.
Then literally:
C) is to take the words at face value … ‘The taking of them’ … Them inferring their person body and soul.