ts my brother,
be patient,
not so quick.
i mean we're not running away or aything, i will answer all your questions, inshallah. i have a lot of respect for you and do not have anything against you. this is a debatable point, and we have to share our opinions with each other.
for a moment, forget that i am an ahmadi, and you are a sunni. lets be neutral, and try to look at the thing without being prejudiced or biased. i respect you as my brother, and i will try my best to understand your point of view.
i have seen that you dont like long replies, therefore i will try to keep it as short as i can, and try to talk point by point. but u must realize that this matter is a sensitive one, and sometimes the posts do get long.
"Since you've failed to provide any logical & true quranic references, your arguments are, thus considered false & untruthful."
My brother, why are you so quick in making conclusions? wait yaar, we gotta look at it, calmly. i have already given a lot of koranic references in this discussion, but u didnt read them i guess, so i will give them again.
okay,
-------------------------** Chapter four, verse 157 158 **-------------------------
i looked at the translations you have given, but you have to realize that they were biased ones. i will produce the arabic text infront of you, and i will show you the koranic proofs i have. then it is your choice to believe or disbelieve in whatever i say. okay?
i know you dont like discussion as far as religious beliefs are concerned, but you have written your opinion, and i request you to listen to the answer too. i dont ask you to believe in it. all i want to tell is that our opinion is , in our point of view, in accordance the koran.
here is the arabic verse:
bal raf'a hullah allaih wa kaan ullah o azeezan hakeema.
okay?
now the phrase to be discussed is,
bal raf'a hullah e allaih
the exact word rafa'hullah is the main source of discussion. While you people translate it as "picked up physically by allah and stay in the heaven", we translate it as " izzat denaa, darjaat bulund kerna".
now we have to discuss why we say our translation is the correct one.
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Our first and basic point is, that the word raf'a hullah alaih always means "izzat dena" . And we challenge anyone, to produce even a single verse from koran, or any text from any arabic literaruture, dictionary or peom, where the phrase "raf'ahullah allaih" means "to pick up physically" . It has been a hundred years and not even one text has been produced where it means what you say. However, everywhere, it has been seen that it is used in the meaning we are using it.
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in order to understand the phrase, look at this hadith:
izaa tawaza'alabdu raf'ahullah-o-ilassamaa-isabiate
-( kanz-al-amaal book 2, s25)
as translated in urdu:
"jab koi shaks allah kee taraf tawazuh ikhtiaar kertaa hai, to "raf'ahullah-o-ilassamaa-isabiate"
now, if we translate "raf'ahullah" as "to pick up physically"
then from the above hadith, it will mean :
everybody who goes for "tawazuh" for allah, will be picked up by allah physically towards the heaven!
now, if u translate "raf'ahullah" your way, then the above hadith also implies that ALL good people of allah, ALL prophtets, ALL the good-doers will be picked up physically towards allah !
as we know this is not the case, there is no option but to believe that jesus is picked up physically by allah either!
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the house of imran, verse 56:
yaa eesaa inni mutawaffaika wa rafe'uka...
note that wafaat is used first.. it is said, that first the death taked place, and then rafah will be given.
now that it is clear, that rafa' takes plave after the death, it is not correct to keep believing that jesus is still alive, and was picked up physically.
Because death takes place first!
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surah al airaaf, verse 177,
"agar hum chahtay, to usay apnay nishaanaat kay zariye "rafa" ata farmaatay, magar woh zameen kee taraf jhuk gaya! "
Here the word rafa is also used, and the "kareena" of a direction against that of the earth is also given.
here all your so-called ulemaa believe that it means "izzat denaa" . then what is so special with jesus? why does the word change its meaning for him?
the above verse has cleared out what meaning of raf'a is correct and what is wrong.
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Surah Marium (57)
Wa rafa'ana makanan aliyya
here too, the same word is used, then if it means "to physically pick up alive" than as this verse says, Hazrat Idrees is also picked up physically, alive!
but if u now see the meaning "izzat dena", then it correctly fits into the situation.
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sorah aaraaf, verse 26,
it is said to the mankind:
' o mankind, Therein shall you live and therein shall you die and therefrom shall you be brought forth'
"ai bani no' insaan, zameen pur hee zindagi kay din guzaaro gay, aur zameen pur heetumharee mot ho gee!!!!!!!"
now do u want to believe that jesus is god?? surely not!! if he is human, then it is not possible for him to live half his life in earth, then go to heaven, come back and live the other half.
this is not possible according to koran, becoz:
' o mankind, Therein shall you live and therein shall you die and therefrom shall you be brought forth'
that sums up my opinion about the verse.
thank you for listening to me.
God bless you!
and if u want, i can once again explin all the koranic verses which i explained in the discussion before you, which prove that jesus is dead.
Muhammad ali ,
dearest brother,
It is very nice to see a change in your attitude.
this time you looked more intersted in the actual discussion. jazaakullah.
okay
you have a fairly strong point with you.
okay, first of all, your question;
"The above is an extract from a hadith. You can see that Hazrat Muhammed (SAWS) was the last one in and led ALL prophets (including nabi and rasool) in prayer. May I ask was Mirza Gulam Ahmed Qadiani attending the prayer too there if he was a nabi or prophet."
okay muhammad ali, the answer lies in your own extract! seems like you just need a careful reading or two and u will get it. your extract talks about all prophets from "Adam to Isa" , which are the ones who have passed already, it dont talk about those who are to come. If Mirza sahab was somewhere between "Adam and Eesa" then u surely wouldve seen his name in the list too!
now i have a question too. All the dead prophets met Muhammad rasoolullah, and Jesus was one of them too .. is it a coincidence?
not at all.
it is in accordance with the koranic verse:
"kad khalat min kablehirrusul"
or, all prophets before muhammad rasoolullah have died!
and jesus is among them too! miraaj proves that!
Now your second point, of either we believe or not in miraaj. we certainly do!
but we have our own point of view, which koran supports. Notice, that i will tell you the point of view, with proof from the koran, thus it is not that we have made up this point of view from ourselves.. i will proove it from koran okay?
We believe that it was a "kashaf" and Muhammad did not go to all those places physically.
You have only given the "extract" from the hadith, if you get a chance to read the orginal hadeeth , then you will find the words, "aankh khul gayee" in the end!
now i will use koran to prove that Muhammad rasoolullah can not climb the sky!
Watch the chapter, Bani Israel, verse 90-94.
u can read whatever translation u like, and u will find out, that it is said, that o prophet, if kufaar ask you to climb up the sky and then bring the book, only then will we believe you... then you shuld tell them, i am am only a man and a prophet, and allah does not allow me to climb the sky!
this verse proves our point of view, that mairaaj was a "kashaf" and not an actual physical incident.
and you can not completely ignore the verse i have mentioned.
you said, the one who dont believe in meraaj is a "kaafir"... i have told you my point of view about mairaaj, which i have proved with koran, and if u still think i am a kaafir, then it means you are calling me a kaafir becoz i believe in koran!
i just wrote this essay, and now i find a new post from you.. i have two things to say bhai muhammad ali, zara suno,
"There is not need to argue or prove anything from the Quran since the Arabs and the muslim ummah of 1300 years before Mirza Gulam Ahmed can traslate or explain the Quran better then him"
betaa jee, Which arabs are you talking about??
from the sahaaba, Hazrat ibne-abaas (for whom , Muhammad rasoolullah prayed god, to give him a special knowledge of koran) has said in his tafseer-e-koraan that jesus is dead!
Imam bokhari, imam ibn-e-hazam, imam malick, everybody said jesus is dead! There is no arabic scholar in the 1300 years that can compare to the knowledge of above mentioned ulemaa !!!
now what??
"He was just a very very little learned man history shows"
Our holy prophet Muhammad rasoolullah was also not able to read and write, but when allah gave him the knowledge, then nobody could compare to him in the whole universe!
hat i am trying to say is, When allah teaxhes someone, then we dont have to go for his college degrees!
you dont disagree with that do you???
now, more about "the arabic ulemaa of muslim-e-umaa" in the 1300 years:
----Hazrat ayesha:
"O people, do say that Muhammad rasoolullah is Khatam-un-nabiyeen, but dont say that there is no nabi after him!"
----kutb-ul-aktaab, imam rabbani mujaddad alif saani , Hazrat shekh Ahmad Farooki:
in maktoobaat-e-imam rabbani hazrat mujaddad aliph sani, book 1, muktab 301, s-432) he says,
that Muhammad rasoolullah is khaatam-un-nabiyeen, and after him, his "taab'ieen" can, by his "pairavi" and "viraasat" can get a nabuwwat, and it is not against his being the khatam un nabiyeen!
----Hazrat muhayyuddin ibn-e-arbi
in fatoohaat-e-mukkiya book 1, s-545:
we have known from darood-shareef, that in the Umaah, there can be men, who can get the status of nabi, but they wont bring a new shareeyat.
---- imam abdul wahaab sheraani:
in, al-yawakeet-o-aljawaahir, book3, s35,:
know it, nabuwwat is not closed, only the "tashree'ey" nabuwwat is closed!
----- hazrat muhayyuddin ibn-e-arbi:
in fatoohaat-e-makeyya, book 2, s 100, chapter 73--82:
nabuwwat will go on till the kayaamat day! only, "tahsree'ee nabuwwat" is closed.
--- Hazrat Shah wali ullah (r.a.)
in tafheemaat-e-illahiyaa , s- 53:
Hazrat muhammad, being "khatam-un-nabiyeen" means, there will be no nabi with a new "shareeyat" !
--Sheaikh abdulkaadir kurdistaani:
in takreeb-al-maraam, book 2, s-233:
"khatamun nabiyeen means, there will be no nabi with shareeyat"
these are enuff to say that this concept is not made up by Ahmadis, but it was already present in the muslim-e-ummah!
now, if you want to know moew, l start a new topic soon, where i will prove that nabuwwat can go on ! okay?
allah be your protector!