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April 10, 2009, 4:35am
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Another blatant lie…please check below references to increase your knowledge on the subject as you obviously don’t know what you are talking about;
1. Ahadith
The Holy Prophet Muhammad said: “Had Moses or Jesus been alive, they would have had to follow me.” (Al-Yawaqit wal-Jawahir, p. 24; Fath al-Bayan, vol. 2, p. 246; Tafsir Ibn Kathir, under verse 81 of Al Imran)
“Adam is in the first heaven … Joseph is in the second heaven, and his cousins Yahya (John the Baptist) and Jesus are in the third heaven, and Idris is in the fourth heaven.” (Kanz al-Ummal, vol. vi, p. 120)
The above hadith is corroborated by another that tells us that in the Mi‘raj vision the Holy Prophet met the spirits of all the previous prophets (see Tafsir Ibn Kathir, Urdu ed. published in Karachi, vol. iii, p. 18).
**2. Early Views **
Hazrat Aishah , God be pleased with her, relates from the Holy Prophet Muhammad:
“Jesus, son of Mary, lived to the age of 120 years.”
(Hujaj al-Kirama, p. 428)
Hazrat Fatima , God be pleased with her, relates from the Holy Prophet:
“Jesus, son of Mary, lived to the age of 120 years.”
(Kanz-ul-Ummal, vol. vi, p. 120)
Imam Ibn Hazm, Amawi Zahiri Qurtabi , writes:
“Jesus, peace be upon him, was neither killed nor crucified, but God caused him to die and then raised him. The Almighty has said: ‘They did not kill him or crucify him’; and ‘I will cause thee to die and exalt thee’; and ‘I (Jesus) was a witness of them so long as I was among them, but when Thou didst cause me to die Thou wert the Watcher over them’ and ‘Allah takes souls (yatawaffa) at the time of death’. Thus there are two kinds of wafat: sleep and death. Jesus in his words ‘When Thou didst cause me to die (falamma tawaffaita-ni)’ was not referring to sleep, but it is correct that by wafat he meant death.”
(Mahalli fil-Fiqh, p. 23)
3. Scholars
Abul Hasan Ali Hajwairi, popularly known as Data Ganj Bakhsh , writes:
“The Messenger of God said that, on the night of the Mi‘raj, he saw Adam, Joseph, Moses, Aaron, Jesus and Abraham, in the heavens. Assuredly it was their souls.”
(Kashf al-Mahjub, Chapter al-Kalam fir-ruh, p. 204).
Mahmud Shaltut, former Mufti of Egypt and ex-Rector of al-Azhar University, Cairo , writes:
i. “There is no authority in the Quran or the Sunna which can satisfy the heart upon the belief that Jesus was taken up to heaven with his body and that he is still alive there and that he shall descend therefrom to earth in the last days.”
(Al-Fatawa, published by Al-Idara al-‘Ama lil-Saqafat al-Islamiyya bil-Azhar, pp. 52-58)
The late Maulana Ubaidullah Sindhi (deobandi scholar) wrote:
“Mutawaffi-ka means mumitu-ka * and what generally prevails amongst the public about Jesus’ life is a Jewish and Sabean fable … It is not a concealed matter that the source of Islam is the Quran, and in it there is not even one verse proving explicitly that Jesus did not die, and that he is alive and shall come down. These are only the deductions and explanations of some people, and are not free from doubt and uncertainty. How, then, can it be taken to be a fundamental Islamic belief ?”
(Ilham al-Rahman fi-tafsir al-Quran, vol. ii, p. 49)
The late Maulana Abul Kalam Azad expresses his view as follows:
i. Upon receiving a letter which read:
“Dear Maulana: … these Mirza’i * people ascribe various views to you, and even give references from Wakil, Tazkira, etc., that you believe in Jesus’ death, and that you praised Mirza (Ghulam Ahmad) Sahib. Please write a conclusive book so that they dare not speak again. You should also state therein that it abrogates all your previous writings and views, thus leaving no scope for anyone to bring up old matters. — Inam-Ullah Khan, Baluchistan”
The Maulana replied:
"1. The death of Jesus is mentioned in the Quran itself.
“2. The question of praising or criticising the Mirza Sahib does not arise because:
‘If you are bad, you cannot be good,
He himself is bad who considers you to be bad’.”
(Malfuzat-i Azad, compiled by Muhammad Ajmal Khan, Maktaba Mahaul, Karachi, pp. 129, 130)
ii. “The belief (in Jesus being alive) by its nature is in every way a Christian doctrine which has appeared in an Islamic guise.”
(Naqsh Azad, p. 102, compiled by Maulana Ghulam Rasul Mahr)
Khwaja Hasan Nizami of Delhi wrote:
i. “Westerners believe that Jesus ascended to heaven. The Quran contradicts this Christian belief, for it contains the verse: inni mutawaffi-ka wa rafi‘u-ka ilayya, i.e., ‘O Jesus, I am about to cause you to die, and grant you exaltation and elevation unto Myself ’. This verse proves the death of Jesus. However, there is another verse saying: wa ma qatalu-hu wa ma salabu-hu wa lakin shubbiha la-hum, i.e., the Jews neither killed nor crucified Jesus, but they fell into doubt. This verse proves that Jesus was not put upon the cross, but died his own death. Rising to heaven does not mean that he went up to heaven but that his status in the estimation of God was raised.”
(Roznamcha, 16 November 1931, p. 15)
ii. “Some people say that Jesus is alive in the fourth heaven. It is proved from the Quran that Jesus was neither murdered nor crucified, but it is not proved that he ascended to heaven alive and is still living. On the contrary, the Quran says: ‘O Jesus, We shall cause you to die and then elevate your status in Our sight, or, raise you to Us’. The word wafat occurs first, and it means to die.”
(Newspaper Munadi, Delhi, 18 September 1936, p. 16)
In his famous book Tazkira, after discussing historical testimony relating to the death of Jesus, Allama Inayat-ullah Khan Mashriqi wrote:
“It is clearly proved today that the prophets were great experts in the laws of nature, and very knowledgeable in the sciences. To be so well-informed is not only true prophethood but also conveys the exemplary lesson that Jesus’ death too was according to the Divine law regarding which the Quran says: ‘You will not find any change in the law of God’ (Sura Al-Fatir).”
(Tazkira, vol. i, footnote, pp.16-17)
Jesus died a natural death - Javaid Ahmad Ghamdi
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A few like Maududi are undecided on this issue.
Just because a billion illiterates who can not read their names let alone read or understand Quran believe in something does not mean Ijma. Also do not assume if a scholar has not expressed opinion he necessarily agrees with you.
Still believe there is Ijma on this belief?**