With-Love-to-Muhammad

Death of Hazrat ‘Īsā as bin Mariam ra 193
law of inheritance for anyone who might return to
earth after death. Yet some of the divines insist that
Jesus son of Mary has not died but was raised bodily
to heaven, and is alive in his physical body. They
dare to suggest that the expression tawaffī, which has
been applied to Jesus as in the Holy Qur’ān, does not
connote death, rather it means taking full possession
of both body and soul. But this interpretation is
utterly false. In the idiom of the Holy Qur’ān, this
expression is consistently employed to connote
taking possession of the soul and the death of the
body. The same idiom is employed in all the ahādīth
and sayings of the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings
of Allāh be upon him).
Ever since the Arabian Peninsula has been
populated and the Arabic language has come into
use, there is not a single ancient or modern instance
of the expression tawaffī being employed taking
possession of the body. Whenever this expression has
been employed for the description of the action of
God Almighty in relation to a human being, it has
always connoted death and taking possession of the
soul. No lexicon and no Arabic saying contradict this.
There is not the slightest room for any different
interpretation. If anyone should cite a single instance
from the Holy Qur’ān or from the ahādīth or from
ancient or modern poetry, or ode, or prose of the
Arabs, wherein the expression tawaffī has been
employed when indicating the action of God
Almighty concerning a human being, as connoting
anything beyond death and taking possession of the
soul, that is to say, as connoting the taking possession