With-Love-to-Muhammad

Death of Hazrat ‘Īsā as bin Mariam ra 193law of inheritance for anyone who might return toearth after death. Yet some of the divines insist thatJesus son of Mary has not died but was raised bodilyto heaven, and is alive in his physical body. Theydare to suggest that the expression tawaffī, which hasbeen applied to Jesus as in the Holy Qur’ān, does notconnote death, rather it means taking full possessionof both body and soul. But this interpretation isutterly false. In the idiom of the Holy Qur’ān, thisexpression is consistently employed to connotetaking possession of the soul and the death of thebody. The same idiom is employed in all the ahādīthand sayings of the Holy Prophet (peace and blessingsof Allāh be upon him).Ever since the Arabian Peninsula has beenpopulated and the Arabic language has come intouse, there is not a single ancient or modern instanceof the expression tawaffī being employed takingpossession of the body. Whenever this expression hasbeen employed for the description of the action ofGod Almighty in relation to a human being, it hasalways connoted death and taking possession of thesoul. No lexicon and no Arabic saying contradict this.There is not the slightest room for any differentinterpretation. If anyone should cite a single instancefrom the Holy Qur’ān or from the ahādīth or fromancient or modern poetry, or ode, or prose of theArabs, wherein the expression tawaffī has beenemployed when indicating the action of GodAlmighty concerning a human being, as connotinganything beyond death and taking possession of thesoul, that is to say, as connoting the taking possession