With-Love-to-Muhammad

246 With Love to Muhammad sa the Khātam-un-Nabiyyīn
supported by the Holy Qur’ān. Instead, Allāh, the Exalted, has
used the word qatala ‏(‏تل)‏ for the martyrs. For example, He says:
وَلاَ‏ تحَ‏ ‏ْسَ‏ بنَ‏ َّ اذلَّ‏ ‏ِيْنَ‏ قُتِلُوْا فىِ‏ ْ سَ‏ بِيْلِ‏ اهللّ‏ ٰ ِ اَمْوَااتً‏
ِ رَبهّ‏ ‏ِمْ‏ يُرْ‏ زَ‏ قُوْ‏ نَۙ‏
ؕ بَلْ‏ اَحْيَآءٌ‏ عِنْدَ‏
Think not of those, who have been slain in the cause
of Allāh, as dead. Nay, they are living, in the
presence of their Lord, and are granted gifts from
Him. 237
وَلاَ‏ تَقُوْلُوْا لِمَنْ‏ يُّقْتَلُ‏ فىِ‏ ْ سَ‏ بِيْلِ‏ اهللّ‏ ٰ ِ اَمْوٰتٌؕ‏ بَلْ‏ اَحْيَآءٌ‏ وَّلٰكِنْ‏ لاَّ‏
تَشْ‏ عُرُ‏ وْ‏ نَ‏ ۝
And say not of those who are killed in the cause of
Allāh that they are dead; nay, they are living; only
you perceive not. 238
In the entire Qur’ān, the word shahīd is not used by Allāh, the
Exalted, to refer to martyrs. He has always used the word qatala.
If someone were to ask why the word shahīd is translated as
martyr in translations of the Qur’ān, the answer is that an implied
meaning of this word is martyr but it is not the intended
meaning based on the language of the Holy Qur’ān.
It is indeed hard for us to understand why the title of
Farhan Khan’s book boasts, “With Love to the Ahmadis of the
World,” yet it is filled with extraordinary bias and prejudiced
analyses of Ahmadiyya Muslim beliefs. It is full of statements
which have nothing to do with Islām, the Holy Qur’ān, and the
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237
Sūrah Āle‘Imrān, 3:170
238
Sūrah Al-Baqarah, 2:155