psyah
February 8, 2012, 9:32pm
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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)?
Peace Jinx
Beginning of maturity after shabab is around 40 years plus. Kahla, linguistically means the start of the decline … It is linked to words that mean upper part of back, and withering … In age terms middle-aged which is around 50 years.
According to references Isa(as) was not seen ever past the age of 33 years.