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192 <strong>With</strong> <strong>Love</strong> <strong>to</strong> <strong>Muhammad</strong> sa the Khātam-un-Nabiyyīn<br />

why don’t you simply admit that you are not<br />

prepared <strong>to</strong> believe in the Holy Qur’an? 204<br />

It is clear from this verse presented by the Promised Messiah as<br />

in the above quotation that all those who are worshipped by<br />

others are dead, not living. This includes Hazrat ‘Īsā as and no<br />

one can argue that he is not worshipped by his followers.<br />

Challenge of the Promised Messiah as !<br />

Regarding the usage of the word tawaffī <strong>to</strong> connote<br />

“death,” the Promised Messiah as has given the following<br />

challenge:<br />

Let it be unders<strong>to</strong>od by all Muslims that it has been<br />

established beyond any doubt, according <strong>to</strong> the Holy<br />

Qur’an and hadīth, that Jesus son of Mary (peace be<br />

upon him) died on earth after fulfilling the span of<br />

his life in accordance with the verse:<br />

205<br />

فِيهْ‏ ‏َا تحَ‏ ‏ْيَوْ‏ نَ‏ وَفِيهْ‏ ‏َا تَمُوْتُوْ‏ نَ‏<br />

It is further clear on the authority of sixteen verses<br />

of the Holy Qur’ān, and a number of ahādīth<br />

contained in Bukhārī, Muslim and other authentic<br />

compilations, that those who die are never sent back<br />

<strong>to</strong> dwell in this world, nor is anyone subjected <strong>to</strong><br />

death twice, nor does the Holy Qur’ān lay down any<br />

204<br />

Izāla-e-Auhām, Rūhānī Khazā’in, Volume 3, Page 431, trans. in The Essence<br />

of Islām, Volume 3, Pages 199-200<br />

205<br />

‘Therein shall you live, and therein shall you die.’—Al-A‘rāf, 7:26<br />

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