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sis shyhijabi, MASHA'ALLAH! You're a wonderful person to interview, you're replies are both informative and helpful as well as from the best point of view. It's great that you're here, and I'm sure we're all learning from you.[
i feel dumb i provide stories of interest, but i never provide any real information that is useful.
Chin up, on the contrare dear brother, I think your stories and advice help us just as much as anyone elses. I'm dead serious here. I love hearing from you, and hope you'll continue to contribute!
Good point, brother Abdellah. The word that God used is "mutawaffeeka" which means calling you back. The life of Jesus, peace be upon him, was not exactly terminated and he did not die. If you notice other mentions of the word "yatawaffa" meaning to call back, you will realize that it is a different concept from death or end of life. In 39:42, God says "God calls back all souls at their death, and those who didn't die, in their sleep. He then holds the soul upon which He ordained death and releases the other one till a preset time." Thus we understand that everytime anybody goes to sleep, God calls back his or her soul! What happened to Jesus just before he was supposed to be captured by the Roman soldiers was that God recalled him and lifted him up then cast his likeness on Judas Escariot. This is quite different from death.
Another evidence that Jesus did not die is in 4:159, "Without exception every one of the people of the Book will believe in him before his death"
We also have several hadiths that tell us that Jesus will come back and that he is "a sign of the impending Hour (Day of Judgment)" (43:61)
Jazakallahu khayran akhi. I was reading this thread from the beginning and knew a correction had to be made here, masha'allah u got too it before me, and have much more knowledge on the subject.
I will add this though. English translations are very inperfect. Only Arabic is the actual Quran, everything else may have flaws in it. The best translation up to date is the one made by Muhsin Khan. THE ONLY translation which has the language "terminated" is in Shakir.
Here's how the same Ayah is placed with Muhsin Khan trans:
Sura [3] Aal-‘Imran :ayah 55
إِذْ قَالَ اللّهُ يَا عِيسَى إِنِّي مُتَوَفِّيكَ وَرَافِعُكَ إِلَيَّ وَمُطَهِّرُكَ مِنَ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُواْ وَجَاعِلُ الَّذِينَ اتَّبَعُوكَ فَوْقَ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُواْ إِلَى يَوْمِ الْقِيَامَةِ ثُمَّ إِلَيَّ مَرْجِعُكُمْ فَأَحْكُمُ بَيْنَكُمْ فِيمَا كُنتُمْ فِيهِ تَخْتَلِفُونَ
"And (remember) when Allah said: "O Jesus! I will take you and raise you to Myself and clear you [of the forged statement that Jesus is Allah's son] of those who disbelieve, and I will make those who follow you (Monotheists, who worship none but Allah) superior to those who disbelieve [in the Oneness of Allah, or disbelieve in some of His Messengers, e.g. Muhammad, Jesus, Moses, etc., or in His Holy Books, e.g. the Torah, the Gospel, the Qur’an] till the Day of Resurrection. Then you will return to Me and I will judge between you in the matters in which you used to dispute."
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to answer the question at hand. i might add that yes i suppose at that time i did consider one jewish person a "friend". Now at this point i would label them as "aquaintances" but whatever. We never really discussed religion. At a young age I was told not to discuss religion at school because it might get me in trouble or make extra trouble, Allah knows what. But I don't think that was the best policy. I should have been proud of my Islam, not avoiding it. Anyways though, the only reference that was made to religion was when it was once said about our "Group" where something like "It shows how diverse our Group is when even a Muslim and a Jew can be friends" I didn't get what was really meant by that. Sad, i didn't even know what Palastine was until a year ago. But the person concerned was only half Jew... lol, don't ask me how that works. Celebrated both Christmas and Hanukah or whatever. One parent was christian, one was jew... Allah knows best, but i think they were in it for the presents.
wasalam
thanks for your good answer my sister.. :mashallah: .Apreciated.
