Eleven Answers to Eleven Questions

The above verse indisputably NEGATES the age old traditional beliefs that Jesus (s.a.s.) upon his return to this earth from heaven will abolish all practices that do not conform (Islamic) Shari'ah and also fight the disbelievers and abolish all other religions until everyone worships Allah .

In brief the alleged ESSENTIAL PURPOSE FOR THE RETURN OF JESUS IS NEGATED BY THE QUR'AN.

SINCE, the Qur'an Reveals that the DISBELIEVERS WILL REMAIN ON THIS EARTH until the Day of Resurrection, to have our Faith (Imaan) upon the Narrations that do claim that the FALSEHOOD and the REJECTION WILL BE ABOLISHED by Jesus is to REJECT THE ABOVE REVEALED TEXT.

This verse 3: 55 also clarifies the two important verses viz., 4: 158 and 159 concerning Jesus.

A. The Verse 158 speaks of the Exaltation of Jesus in Honour and Status.
B. The Verse 159 speaks of the Death of the follower of Jesus ("his"), and not that of Jesus.

Below are the translation of the above verses by Dr. Muhammad Asad

"Nay, God exalted him unto Himself - and God is indeed almighty wise." 4: 158

Commentary Number 172 to the above verse by Dr. Muhammad Asad:
Cf. 3:55, where God says to Jesus, "Verily, I shall cause thee to die, and shall exalt thee unto Me." The verb rafa'ahu (lit., "he raised him" or "elevated him") has always, whenever the act of raf' ("elevating") of human being is attributed to God, the meaning of "honouring" or "exalting". Nowhere in the Qur’an is there any warrant for the popular belief that God has "taken up" Jesus bodily, in his lifetime, into heaven. The expression "God exalted him unto Himself" in the above verse denotes the elevation of Jesus to the realm of God's special grace - a blessing in which all prophets partake, as it is evident from 19:57, where the verb rafa'nahu ("We exalted him") is used with regard to the Prophet Idris. (See also Muhammad Abduh in Manar III, 316f., and VI, 20f. ) The "nay" (bal) at the beginning of the sentence is meant to stress the contrast between belief of the Jew that they had put Jesus to a shameful death on the cross and the fact of God's having "exalted him unto Himself."

Commentary Number 662 by Abdullah Yusuf Ali: (unrevised edition)
The same word rafa’a is used in association with honour in connection with [Muhammad] Mustafa in 94. 4.
"Yet there is not one of the followers of earlier revelation who does not,
at the moment of his death, grasp the truth about Jesus, and on the Day of Resurrection he [himself] shall bear witness to the truth against them."
Verse 4:159, Translation by Dr. Muhammad Asad.

Question No. 5:
Does the verse 43: 61 of the Qur'an reveals the "Coming of Jesus at the End Time"?

Answer No. 5:
The answer is No.
Translator Abdullah Yusuf Ali had inserted the name of Jesus, within the brackets, in his English translation of the verse number 43: 61. Since Allah (s.w.t.) had not revealed that name,
it does not appear in the Arabic text which is reproduced below:

وَإِنَّهُ لَعِلْمٌ لِّلسَّاعَةِ فَلَا تَمْتَرُنَّ بِهَا وَاتَّبِعُونِ هَذَا صِرَاطٌ مُّسْتَقِيمٌ{61

Abdullah Yusuf Ali's translation for verse number 43: 61 reads:
"And (Jesus) shall be a Sign (for the coming of) the Hour (of Judgment): therefore
have no doubt about the (Hour) but follow ye Me: this is a Straight Way."

Moreover, Abdullah Yusuf Ali has mistranslated the Arabic word I’lm. Literally, this Arabic word normally translates “knowledge”. Instead, we find the word “Sign” in Yusuf Ali's translation.

In his commentary to the above verse Yusuf Ali records:
"...he (Jesus) he will destroy the false doctrines that pass under his name,
and prepare the way for the universal acceptance of Islam,"

The Verse 3: 55 of the Qur'an, quoted hereto above, categorically rejects the above comment and reveals that the Rejecters will also live along with the Believers, until the Day of Resurrection.
Please note, the preceding verse number 43: 60 is related to the “angels” and not with Jesus.
The following translation of verse 61 done by Dr. Muhammad Asad has a much better appeal in view of the fact that there are several verses in the Qur'an that speak of the LAST HOUR:

"And, Behold, this (divine writ) is indeed a means to know (that) the Last Hour (is bound to come); hence, have no doubt whatever about it, but follow Me: this (alone) is the straight way."

The Commentary Number 41 by Dr. Muhammad Asad to the above verse reads:
Whereas most of the commentators regard the pronoun hu in innahu as relating to Jesus and, consequently, interpret the above phrase as "he is indeed a means to know [i.e., an indication of the coming of] the Last Hour", some authorities - e.g., Qatadah, Al-Hasan Al-Basri and Said ibn Jubayr (all of them quoted by Tabari, Badhawi and Ibn Kathir) - relate the pronoun to the Quran, and understand the phrase in the sense adopted in my rendering. The specific mention of the Last Hour in the above context is meant to stress man's ultimate responsibility before the Creator and, therefore, the fact that worship is due to Him alone: and so this parenthetic passage follows logically upon the mention of the false deification of Jesus.

It is worth noting that the translator Yusuf Ali belonged to the community of the Mustealiyyan Shiah Ismaili Muslim (commonly known as the Bohras). The last Imam of the Bohras had gone into an extended occultation and the followers have been anxiously waiting for nearly a thousand years for their last Imam’s “RETURN from the Heaven” as a MAHDI, just as the extra zealous followers of the Christ are waiting for the RETURN of their SAVIOUR from the Heaven.
Every believing Muslim recites the phrase "ALLAH HAS SPOKEN THE TRUTH"
after reciting the verse(s) of the Qur'an in Arabic.
IN OTHER WORDS NOTHING SHOULD PERSUADE THE BELIEVER TO ACCEPT ANYTHING CONTRADICTORY TO WHAT ALLAH (swt) HAS HIMSELF REVEALED.

In light of the revealed text of verse 3: 55, the NARRATIONS reproduced earlier would fall within the category of
MAUDU* * meaning; FABRICATED - FORGED (Narrations).
IT IS A FALLACY TO CALL THEM "THE HADEETHS": These are NOT "The Sayings of the PROPHET" p.b.u.h.
ALLAH'S MESSENGER COULD NEVER EVER CONTRADICT
THE TEXT THAT WAS REVEALED THROUGH HIM BY ALLAH (S.W.T.)

Questions 1 to 6 are for Muslims to read carefully and reflect

Questions 7 to 11 are for Christians to read carefully and reflect

Question No. 7:
Does the unedited ORIGINAL texts of the Four Gospels have the story of the
'Physical Ascension of Jesus'?

Answer No. 7:
The answer is NO.
The fifth century handwritten copy of the New Testament - Codex Sinaiticus, safeguarded by the monks of the St. Catherine's Monastery on the foot of Mount Sinai in Egypt and discovered in 1862 by Dr. Constantine von Tischendorf (1815-1874) does not have the story of the Physical Ascension of Jesus to Heaven within the ORIGINAL GOSPEL TEXTS. In other words the STORIES were added sometime after the fourth century. Similarly, the story is also missing within Codex Syriacus.

The writings of the early Christian theologians and biblical exegetes like Clement of Alexandria (d. 215 CE) and Origen (d. 254 CE) do not have the story of the Physical Ascension of Jesus to Heaven.

For complete details read the book 'Rediscovering the Realities of Jesus' by the webmaster.

Jesus met his disciples, days after the 'Day of his Ascension'.

Question No. 8:
Did Jesus meet his disciples during the period when he was supposed to be sitting in the Heaven?

Answer No. 8:
The answer is YES.
The Gnostic Gospel written by Apostle James - the Brother of Jesus and now recovered in 1945 from the Nag Hammadi in Egypt confirms that Jesus met his disciples "five hundred and fifty days" after his supposed Resurrection. For further details read the books; 'Beyond Belief' by Elaine Pagels, 'The Hag Hammadi Library' by Dr. James M. Robinson and 'Rediscovering the Realities of Jesus' by Akbarally Meherally.

Question No. 9:
Does the Old Testament have a Prophecy that confirms that God had pre-planned to prolong the life of Jesus after the ordeal (after he was bruised by his enemies) and he was to see his offspring?

Answer No. 9:
The answer is YES.
Here is the text from the Old Testament that Jews and Christians read today:
"But the Lord was pleased to bruise him, putting him to grief; if he would render himself as a guilt offering, he will see his offspring. He (God) will prolong his days, and the good pleasure of the Lord will prosper in his hand."
The Book of Isaiah 53: 10. Please read the entire chapter 53 to appreciate this Prophecy.

In verse 7: 157, the Qur'an Reveals the foretelling of the coming of Prophet Muhammad (s.a.s.) within the earlier books. Often the oracles from the Book of Isaiah foretold by Prophet Isaiah are quoted by the Muslim scholars, besides the other passages, to uphold that Revealed Truth.

Here the same Prophet Isaiah had foretold in the same Book of Isaiah, what was to happen centuries later to Prophet Isa' (a.s.). The Prophecies by Isaiah for BOTH the Prophets - Jesus and Muhammad, foretold centuries before their births, have come true.

Question No. 10:
Did Jesus himself speak of the Prophecy concerning him in the earlier scripture?

Answer No. 10:
The answer is YES.
Here is the text from Luke's Gospel:
"For I say unto you, that this that is written must yet be accomplished in me, 'and he was reckoned among the transgressors'; for the things concerning me have an end." ... Then he said to them. "Oh, how foolish you are, and how slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have declared! Was it not necessary that the Messiah (Christ) should suffer these things and then enter into his glory?" Gospel of Luke 22: 37 and 24: 25-26.

Note: The issue here is of entering into "his glory" after the suffering. God eternally rewarded Jesus after he had suffered at the hands of his enemies. Jews wanted to prove Jesus - the son of Mary, was a false Messiah but he became eternally glorified as the God's Anointed MESSENGER.

Question No. 11:
Did Jesus have a son?

Answer No. 11:
The answer is YES.
Here is the text from The Gospel written by the early apostle Phillips, discovered in 1945 from Nag Hammadi in Egypt.
"There is the Son of man and there is the son of the Son of man. The Lord is the Son of man, and the son of the Son of man is he who is created through the Son of man. ...He also has the ability to beget." Nag Hammadi Library, English pg. 148.

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