The Essence of Islam – Volume V — Page 191
Miscellaneous Signs 191 repent and seek God's forgiveness, because I had seen in a dream that they themselves had invited the enemy to their house, which indicated some wrongdoing on their part. I knew that death was an eternal law of na- ture, yet it occurred to me that if someone died of the plague in my house it would give rise to such an up- roar of denial, that even if I were to present a thousand signs they would be of no avail against this particular objection. I had already written and publi- cized hundreds of times, and told thousands of people, that all members of my household would re- main safe from death by the plague. I can not describe my feelings at the time. I immediately engaged my- self in prayer, after which I witnessed a wondrous spectacle of Divine power that, within two or three hours, Ishāq's fever miraculously disappeared and no trace of the buboes was left. He not only sat up but started walking, playing, and running around, as if he had never been ill! This, indeed, is giving life to the dead! I proclaim it on oath, that raising of the dead by Jesusas was absolutely no more than this. Let people exaggerate his miracles as much as they like, but this is what their reality was. He who really dies, and truly passes away from this world, and the Angel of Death takes away his spirit, can never return. Look, Allāh says in the Holy Quran: فَيُمْسِكُ الَّتِي قَضَى عَلَيْهَا الْمَوْتَ [Haqiqat-ul-Waļī, Rūķānī Khazā'in, vol. 22, pp. 340-342] 62 And then He retains those against which He has decreed death. -Al-Zumar, 39:43 [Publisher]