Re: [IN URDU] Will History repeats itself ?
Assalamu Alaykum,
Has God said that He will operate according to the scientific rule only? Anywhere in Quran? I can show you many places where God has said that he does anything anywhere He wants.
No sir. Let us look at the verse again: (with Arabic words added in brackets)
“Or the like of him who passed by a town, and it had fallen down upon its roofs; he said: How will God give it life after its death (mautiha)? So God caused him to die (amata) for a hundred years, then raised him to life. He said, ‘How long have you tarried?’ He said, ‘I have tarried a day, or a part of a day.’ (God) said, 'Nay! you have tarried a hundred years; then look at your food and drink - years have not passed over it; and look at your donkey; and that We may make you a sign to men, and look at the bones, how We set them together, then clothed them with flesh; so when it became clear to him, he said, ‘I know that God has power over all things.’” (Al-Baqarah 2:259)
Both maut and amata used in the verse mean death as we know when a person dies. They do not mean sleep. maut - when someone has died, the same word is used in Urdu. We never understand maut to mean ‘sleep’, it is just death. amata, to give death to someone, not sleep to someone. For sleep, there are other words such as naum and naama etc. So Quran is VERY clear it was death, not sleep. If you think it is sleep, please bring your proof.
You can verify it in any dictionary, the meaning of word ‘maut’ must exist as what you have specified in order for us to take this verse to mean that.
Similarly, the verse about Jesus (pbuh):
“And remember when God said, 'O Jesus son of Mary! Remember my favor on you and your mother … … … and when you brought forth dead (mauta) by My permission …” (Al-Maidah 5:110)
Again mauta, someone who is dead. Very clear.
God gave birth to Jesus (pbuh) without a father, not to prophet Muhammad (pbuh). God had prophet Jesus (pbuh) raise dead to living but not Muhammad (pbuh). God had prophet Jesus (pbuh) give sight to blind, but not Muhammad (pbuh).
We cannot understand why God does what He does unless He tells us. We cannot sit in His place and decide why He would do (or did) that He does. It is His domain, we cannot judge, we just do not have the capability.
As for the messengers of God, God says that they are all equal, and we must treat them equally, therefore we cannot say one messenger is better than other therefore it does not make sense (naoodu billah) for God to raise this prophet instead of that.
If He decides to raise prophet Jesus (pbuh), it is not befitting for us to say that prophet Muhammad (pbuh) should be raised instead!
These verses do not tell that one cannot be reborn. As Quran has clearly specified, God did raise the dead. If we look at the verses you have quoted, they simply imply that there is barrier between us and the dead. We cannot communicate with them, cannot call them, they cannot hear, cannot communicate with us. But on our death, we do go from this side of the barrier to that side. Why can’t then, when God raises the dead, He bring from there back to here? He already raised the dead as per Quran despite this rule being in effect!
Best Wishes,
Omer Iqbal