"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
🧵Sign of Messiah: Miraculous Prophecy - Birth of the son of Khalifa I
After the enemies mocked the death of the son of Maulvi Noor-ud-Din RA & called him Abtar, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad AS prophesied birth of a son who would have boils on his body
5 years later, that son was born
1) BACKGROUND
In 1894, the son of Maulvi Noorudin RA died in infancy
A Muslim enemy claimed that this is the proof that Ahmad AS had lost the debate with Abdullah Atham. He further mocked Noorudin RA by calling him Abtar (one without male issue)
Noorudin RA was 60 years old
2) PROPHECY
"In my dream, I saw that...God has given you that boy instead of Muhammad Ahmad, who is better than him in complexion, appearance, and strength...I saw that there were some rashes or pustules/boils erupting on the body of this child."
@MrAdnanRashid @BroHajji 1) IBN QUTAIBAH (d. 267H)
"The Holy Prophet ﷺ meant that there would be no Prophet after him who would abrogate his law."
[Ta’wilu Mukhtalifil-Ahadith, p. 236]
2) QADI ‘IYAD (d. 544H)
In response to the Mutazilites and Jahmites who denied the descent of Isa AS based on this hadith:
"...and this is an invalid reasoning because it is not meant by the descent of Isa AS, that he descends as a prophet with a law that abrogates our law."
The book on the biography of another Saint - Imam Ahmad al-Sabri has a letter by Sheikh Jilani in which it's prophecized the Mahdi will manifest between 1300H-1400H and the Muqallideen won't accept him.
[Tadhkirah Anwar Sabri, p. 143-144]
2) SHĀH NI’MATULLĀH WALI (d. 834H) - 1
"Immediately after the passage of twelve hundred years
I see terrible/strange things happening...
Najafi writes to Ahmad AS and boasts about showing a sign within 40 minutes.
"Well then let him announce a prophecy and we shall give him, not forty minutes, but forty hours. Thereafter if no Sign appears on our side within forty days and he shows-
-a Sign within forty hours, or, indeed within forty days, we shall believe in his spiritual eminence and we shall give up our own claim. But if within the period specified a Sign appears on my side and none appears from his side, this would be the proof of my righteousness."
This hadith doesn’t contradict the coming of the Messiah in the End Times
It simply shows that 30 dajjals — a finite number of false claimants — will appear before the true Messiah.
Muhammad ﷺ did not say ALL claimants of Messiah will be Dajjal.
2) ʻIyāḍ Ibn-Mūsā al-Ubbi (d. 827 AH)
500 years before Mirza Ghulam Ahmad AS
“This hadith has proven true, for if one were to count those who claimed prophethood from his time ﷺ until now, they would reach this number, and this is known to anyone who examines the histories.”
"He has attacked, and is attacking, not the British Government, and its officials, but Christianity and its missionaries, and in such a manner as is likely to cause very bitter and dangerous feelings in the minds of his followers against the religion of their...
...rulers and its exponents. In the very pamphlet, which he issues as an apology for himself he repeats the epithet for Christian missionaries that The Muhammadan protested against-Dajjal (an Arabic word signifying sorcerer or perverter of the truth)."