• Teachings Of Jesus

• Jesus Was Deified After His Departure

• Reward For The Faithful

Al-Ma’idah Verses 116 – 120

وَإِذْ قَالَ اللَّهُ يَا عِيسَى ابْنَ مَرْيَمَ أَأَنْتَ قُلْتَ لِلنَّاسِ اتَّخِذُونِي وَأُمِّيَ إِلَٰهَيْنِ مِنْ دُونِ اللَّهِ قَالَ سُبْحَانَكَ مَا يَكُونُ لِي أَنْ أَقُولَ مَا لَيْسَ لِي بِحَقٍّ إِنْ كُنْتُ قُلْتُهُ فَقَدْ عَلِمْتَهُ تَعْلَمُ مَا فِي نَفْسِي وَلَا أَعْلَمُ مَا فِي نَفْسِكَ إِنَّكَ أَنْتَ عَلَّامُ الْغُيُوبِ

“And when God will say (asking) “O’ Jesus son of Mary! didst thou say to the people, take me1and my mother2two gods3beside God?” he will say (in reply) “Glory be to Thee, it was not for me to say that which I had no right to say; If I had said it Thou wouldst have indeed known it; Thou knowest whatever is in myself and I know not what is in Thine Self; Verily Thou art the Great Knower of all the unseen.” (5:116)

مَا قُلْتُ لَهُمْ إِلَّا مَا أَمَرْتَنِي بِهِ أَنِ اعْبُدُوا اللَّهَ رَبِّي وَرَبَّكُمْ وَكُنْتُ عَلَيْهِمْ شَهِيدًا مَا دُمْتُ فِيهِمْ فَلَمَّا تَوَفَّيْتَنِي كُنْتَ أَنْتَ الرَّقِيبَ عَلَيْهِمْ وَأَنْتَ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ شَهِيدٌ

“I did not say to them aught except what Thou didst command me with; that worship God my Lord and your Lord,” and I was a witness over them so long as I was among them; when Thou didst take4me up, Thou wert the Watcher over them; and Thou art witness over all things5.” (5:117)

إِنْ تُعَذِّبْهُمْ فَإِنَّهُمْ عِبَادُكَ وَإِنْ تَغْفِرْ لَهُمْ فَإِنَّكَ أَنْتَ الْعَزِيزُ الْحَكِيمُ

“Should Thou chastise them, Verily they are Thy servants; and should Thou forgive them, Verily Thou art the Mighty the Wise.” (5:118)

قَالَ اللَّهُ هَٰذَا يَوْمُ يَنْفَعُ الصَّادِقِينَ صِدْقُهُمْ لَهُمْ جَنَّاتٌ تَجْرِي مِنْ تَحْتِهَا الْأَنْهَارُ خَالِدِينَ فِيهَا أَبَدًا رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُمْ وَرَضُوا عَنْهُ ذَٰلِكَ الْفَوْزُ الْعَظِيمُ

“God will say6: “This is the day when shall benefit the truthful ones; their truth for them shall be gardens beneath which rivers flow to abide therein for ever; God is well pleased with them and they are well pleased with God; This is the great achievement7.” (5:119)

لِلَّهِ مُلْكُ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ وَمَا فِيهِنَّ وَهُوَ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ قَدِيرٌ

“God’s is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth and what (all) is in them; and He (alone) hath the power over all things.” (5:120)

Commentary

Verse 116

“It is not clear that the doctrine of Trinity is referred here though it is said that some Christians of the Prophet’s Day held Trinity to consist of God, Jesus and Mary. But irrespective of the fact that Divine honours are bestowed on the Holy Virgin, and she is actually worshipped in the same way as Jesus, as the mother of God in the Roman Catholic Church to the present day, is a matter of common knowledge. But for the fact that something of divinity was ascribed to her, no one could have ventured to give her the absurd and blasphemous appellation of the mother of God. She could not have been mother of God unless she was herself in some way divine. So apart from the popular belief which everyone holds for himself, slipping in all sorts of exaggerations, we find this even in the carefully guarded language of the Roman Church Catechism.

‘That she is truly the mother of God and the second Eve, by whose means we have received blessing and life; that she is the mother of Pity (with capital P) and very specially our advocate; that her images are of the utmost utility.’ Even if it be supposed that divinity is not meant to be taught here, one can easily see how it can grow to it in the minds of the ignorant, chiefly women. So, leaving aside Arabia, ‘the Marian Cultus’ as it is called grew as much in the West as in the East, and we read of women in Thrace, Scythia, etc., in the habit of worshipping the Virgin as a goddess and offering cakes to her image as ablution (Ency. Britt, 11^th Ed.) On 15^th of August, they hold a festival of the Assumption of the Holy Virgin.

“It is this that is of count and is complained of in the passage” (B.H. Vol II, pp. 228 and 229).

Verse 117

‘Tawaffaitani’ meaning taken away to Myself - and not caused to die as the same commentator renders it to prove somehow or other, that Jesus is dead and gone. ‘Tawaffaitani’ literally means receiving a thing in full, and death is only an inferred meaning.

‘Tawaffa’ does not always mean actual death, taking away even with death as it is ordinarily meant8, where it is used to explain how a soul is taken away from, the individual during sleep. It can never mean death as the same commentator interprets it. Since the revelation of the Holy Qur’an till now all Muslim Theologians believed in the life of Jesus, i.e., Jesus having been raised to heaven and the Muslims believe in the second advent of Jesus before the end of the world. But a new school of thought wants somehow to prove that Jesus is dead. To establish this newly innovated belief they advance all sorts of arguments by twisting some Verse or the other in their own way.

Thus, they say that they do it just to prove to the Christian world that their god Jesus was only a mortal, and he is dead and gone. To do this they need not go away from the right path. There are innumerable other arguments from their own scriptures which clearly prove Jesus to be an ordinary man with a miraculous birth and departure from the world to prove the omnipotence of God.

When Jesus was given birth into this world through some extraordinarily or a miraculous course without the agency of a male partner to his Virgin mother, where can be any wonder for the same Almighty Lord raising him to some heavenly abode for some divinely determined term. To deny Jesus being raised to heaven, is to deny Omnipotence to God.

A new story has been coined, full of peculiar inferences from some legends about some saint being buried in Kashmir. First it is started with a presumption that the man must be Jesus and then it is presented as a historic fact.

It has been said that there will be nothing which happened in the history of the older religions but will find a parallel in Islam. As a parallel to the continued life of Jesus the last of the Israelite prophets, there is in Islam the divinely continued life of Muhammad Ibn Hasan-Askari Al Mahdi - the Last of the Imams of the Islamic faith in the same seed of Abraham through his first son Ishmael. The Mahdi and Jesus, both of the seed of Abraham will reappear before the end of the world.

The Verse clearly says that the perversion in the Christian faith took place after the departure of Jesus. The Bible also says the same things:

“While I was with them in the World, I kept them in thy name.” John 17/12.

The limitation of Jesus witness up to the completion of his term on earth may be on account of his apostolic mission. This is not the case with the Last Apostle9 (A.P.).

Verse 118

Salvation is therefore for those who die in unintentional error and not for those who knowingly reject the truth and who remain wilfully perverse.

• 1. Jesus.
• 2. Virgin Mary.
• 3. Objects of worship.
• 4. Completed my term.
• 5. Rnt. John 17/12. Refer to Verses 3:54; 4:157; 6:60.
• 6. Lit. said.
• 7. Refer to Verse 85:11.
• 8. Refer to Verse 6:60.
• 9. Refer to Verses 10:94 and 10:105.