Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part V — Page 376
376 BARĀHIN-E-AHMADIYYA - PART FIVE to impart. And when You caused me to die, I know not what became of them thereafter. These verses also make it clear that Hadrat 'Isaas will not come to the world a second time; otherwise, it necessarily implies that Jesus would lie before God Almighty on the Day of Judgment, for had he returned to the world before Qiyāmah, it would be a blatant lie to say that he had no knowledge what doctrine his people adopted after him. One who comes to the world a second time and has seen with his own eyes that his people have been corrupted—and witnesses their state of disbelief not for one but continuously for forty years-how can he say before God Almighty on the Day of Judgment that he is completely unaware of the state of his people? Now, it is obvious that your belief that Hadrat 'Isaas is alive and shall descend upon the earth a second time is clearly and blatantly against the explicit statements of the Holy Quran, and yet you do not abandon this belief. Therefore, in this state of affairs, why should I regret if you having seen hundreds of my Signs-should reject them outright? Your condition is like that of a person who gets into the habit of eating clay and even when he is presented with the choicest food, he still craves for the clay. It is also a lie to say that you understand Hadrat Īsā, may peace be upon him, to be alive on the basis of the Hadith. It is clearly written in Şahih Bukhārī, which you consider to be the truest book after the Book of God, that on the night of the Mirāj [Spiritual Ascension] the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, saw Hadrat 'Isā, may peace be upon him, among the deceased souls who had passed away from this world. In fact, he found his station close to Hadrat Yahya [John the Baptist] who had died. Pray, have some fear of God. If Hadrat 'Isā had gone to heaven along with his earthly body without surrendering his soul, then what compatibility did he have with those souls who have reached the other world after death? For him, a separate house or room was needed where he could live his physical life; rather, than going to the dwellers of mortal world who have already tasted