Re: Hazrat Isa A.S.
you have your feet in 2 boats. Clear your understanding, and clear your belief regarding Isa(as). At one point, you say hes taken up bodily and rafa’a mean raised him up to himself. Then you say He could also be sleeping and thereby raised in rank ?
The word tawaffee is used before rafa’a, therefore it means taken away, (their soul, as is suggested in the verse 39:42), either by sleep or death. And raf’aa means to raise one status.
You said it means ’ i will take you and raise u up to me '. Thats like repeating same thing.
"i will cause you to die( take your soul away ), and exalt you to myself. "
See the following ahadith to clear your understanding about the word rafa’a. ( exalt you to myself )
