Hazrat Isa A.S.

Mr.Popat · February 8, 2012, 6:18pm

Re: Hazrat Isa A.S.

Mr. Popat and psyah,

Can I ask you guys to provide your view point on the following and how you understand it?

Refer to Surah Aal-e-Imran 3:46 and Maidah 5:110, it is mentioned in regards to Isa (AS) that he will talk to people in cradle as well as in ‘kahla’. Kahla is often translated as “maturity” or “old age”.

My questions to both of you are:

1) Why there was a need of using such a word by Allah (SWT)? Doesn’t common sense suggest that everyone of us talk to people when we grow up?

2) What is the exact arabic dictionary meaning of the work “Kahla”? What’s the root of it and in what reference is it used for attaining maturity?

3) I’m sure from various Christian and Islamic resources the approximate age of Isa (AS) is determined somewhere, do we know what was his age at the time of the event (his bodily ascension as believed by psyah or his death as believed by Mr. Popat)?

Allah says :
5:46 And We caused Jesus, son of Mary, to follow in their footsteps, fulfilling that which was revealed before him in the Torah; and We gave him the Gospel which contained guidance and light, fulfilling that which was revealedbefore it in the Torah, and a guidance and an admonition for the God-fearing.

Jesus(as) speaking words of wisdom in his childhood has nothing supernatural about it. May intelligent and well brought up children speak like that. It is all Allah’s mercy…whomsoever He pleases, He bestows. Prophets are given nabuwat when they’re MEN ( i.e when they are 40 or close to it ). Jesus(as) was given the knowledge of Torah and Gospel. Torah, before His prophethood. Gospel after his prophethood. He was a prophet sent to bani israel in the mooswi shariya. He was given knowledge of the true teachings of Torah which were changed. He was then given Gospel. That is all what he knows. It has always been like this. A new prophet would confirm and fulfill what an earlier prophet had said in His holy book and give glad tiding for a prophet AFTER him. An old prophet does not come back to confirm the teaching of what the newer prophet has been given. Jesus foretold about Ahmad (MuhammadPBUH), and Muhammad PBUH came, confirming what was in Bible, telling it to be the word of God, and then bringing new shariyah. Jesus(as) did not say He’ll come back after him. Quran is pure from this.

The word ‘kahl’ means, one of middle age or of the age when one’s hair becomes intermixed with hoariness..or it means one who is between 30 to around 51, or between 40 to 51 (Lane & Tha’labi).

He(as) spoke to people when he grew up. But its merely a mercy of Allah to have given Jesus(as) the ability to speak wisdom since he was little. Shows the non believers that he will be truthful even after getting his prophethood in his latter life.