Eternal Words 3-Sura-'Al-i-'Imran Verse55
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(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 كُنتُم ْ فِيهِ تَخْتَلِفُونَ
Section 6
Promise of Rescue to Jesus The Christians were
invited to the Spiritual Contest
55. "(Remember) when Allah said: ' O' Jesus! I will take you and raise you up to Myself and purify you of those who disbelieve and place those who follow you above those who disbelieve until the Day of Judgement Then, unto Me shall be your return and I shall judge between you as to that therein you used to differ!"
Commentary:
This holy verse is again the continuation of the explanatory verses concerning the life of Jesus (a.s.) Basing on Sura Nisa, No. 4, verse 157, it is popularly assumed amongst the Islamic commentators that Jesus (a.s.) was never killed but Allah (s.w.t.) took him to heaven. The verse under discussion is something referring to the same meaning.
It says:
" (Remember) when Allah said: 'O' Jesus! I will take you and raise you up to Myself ..."
And, then it adds:
"... and purify you of those who disbelieve..."
The purpose of this purification is saving him from the grips of disbelieving filthy people; or saving him from unjust accusations and dastardly plots that ended in the victory of his religion.
Then, it continues saying:
"... and place those who follow you above those who disbelieve until the Day of Judgement. ..."
This verse is one of the miraculous predictive verses of the Qur'an which speaks of the hidden news when it says that the followers of Jesus (a.s.) will be always above the Jews who were opponent to Jesus Then it adds:
"...then, unto me shall be your return and I shall judge between you as to that therein you used to differ."
That is, what was said about those victories are related to this world, while the final court and the ultimate Judgement over the deeds of people is something that will happen in Hereafter.
