🧵 Is there Ijma' that Isa AS is alive?
Some Muslims claim there's consensus that Jesus AS is still alive & that denying it is Kufr. But Tafsir Tabari records 4 differing views of the Salaf.
3/4 views translate 'Tawaffa' as 'Taking of the Soul', disproving any claimed Ijma'.
VIEW #1: TAWAFFA = DEATH
"And others said: The meaning is: I will take you with the taking of death."
VIEW #2: TAWAFFA = SLEEP
"Then the interpreters differed regarding the meaning of 'taking'...
Some said: 'It is the taking [of soul] during sleep' and according to them, the meaning was: 'I am causing you to sleep and raising you during your sleep.'"
VIEW #3: TAWAFFA = DEATH (In End Times)
"And others said: The meaning is: When Allah said, 'O Jesus, I am raising you to Me...I will cause you to die after I send you back down to the world.' They said: This is from what is presented earlier but meant to be later..."
VIEW #4: TAWAFFA = PHYSICAL TAKING
"Others said: The meaning is: 'I am taking you from the earth and raising you to Me.'...I am seizing you from the earth alive to My presence, and taking you to what is with Me without death, and raising you..."
CONCLUSION
• No Ijma' that Isa AS is alive
• Even Salaf had differing views so how can there be Ijma'?
• 3/4 views of Salaf translate 'Tawaffa' as 'taking of the soul'. NOT the body!
• 2/4 translate it as DEATH
🔗Article: whiteminaret.org/doj/no-consens…
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