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Verses 4:159 and 43:61: 'before his death' and 'knowledge of the hour'
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machinesummary, machine-writtenNeither 4:159 nor 43:61 establishes a return: the early exegetes read 4:159 of each Christian at death, Ubayy's reading is plural, and 43:61 says knowledge, not sign.
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Mufti Abu Layth takes 4:159, that none of the People of the Book but will believe in him before his death, and says the referent of 'his' is disputed: some say the dying Christian who realises his error, some say Jesus, some the Prophet Muhammad; he reports that Ibn Abbas, in a transmission Ibn Kathir calls sahih, Mujahid, al-Sha'bi [?], Muhammad ibn Ali [?] and others read it as the Christian, and that Ubayy ibn Ka'b's recitation reads 'before their death' in the plural. He argues the second-coming reading fails because the Christians of two thousand years would already have died before any return, so only those alive then would be covered, whereas on death each realises the truth. He then takes 43:61, that he is knowledge of the hour: Hasan al-Basri read it of the Quran, Ibn Kathir reports some read it of the Prophet Muhammad, and even taking it of Jesus the text says 'ilm, knowledge, not a sign, so a sign reading is itself an interpretation of what was called a clear verse. He sums up that those quoting tawatur and ijma reject other mutawatir claims and disagree among themselves, and that the books of aqidah are silent, before asking about the Mahdi.
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Mufti Abu Layth holds that 4:159 refers to each Christian believing at death, following Ibn Abbas, Mujahid and Ubayy's plural reading, and that 43:61 says Jesus is knowledge of the hour, not a sign, so neither verse establishes a return.
“so the true understanding here was that upon death they will realize that this was not the truth”
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over 200 and so many years after the Prophet none of the self they mentioned this was the opinion of for Lebanon Samuel bajillion II suppori who said that this verse could refer to Jesus coming back India his second coming before him nobody said that this wasn't how they understood the Quran first Dino Rossi these people themselves are saying look we believe Jesus reached Kahuna in this in this earth so look what so this is why it's disciplined now you see what I'm up against you know it's amazing and they say these clear verses in the Quran things like
look the verse of the Quran that says oh were the one what I mean Alec is happy Elena you mañana be problem OT young that there is none from the the people of the book except he will believe in it or him before his death now they disagree on who these eight or him or whatever is going back to so some people say is going back to the the Christian himself so meaning that before that Christian or dies as he's dying he will realize that you know what I was on was
false and other people said he's going back to Jesus some people probably said he brings the opinion is going back to the Prophet Muhammad some Omaha you sent them now even if you take this to mean the Second Coming first of all who said it doesn't mean to say it means the Christian if not a bar said that it's transmitted from him this is if McCarthy says is Asahi transmission Mujahid said that sure Arab nataschab said that Muhammad Nabeel had a fierce attack many the Hawks at all all these Olimar said that no is talking about the Christian right to say Jesus
doesn't make sense in fact the recitation of oh babe niqab reads problem ot him before their death and him is plural it's not English him home in our week were ready as him is them in Arabic so is Jesus ain't them these talking about the Christians because it doesn't make sense look what a metallic there is no Christian no Christian except let's take their reading for a moment there is no Christian except he will believe in it before Jesus is death when he comes back but that doesn't make sense because when Jesus comes back
most Christians that have lived and died have already died over the 2,000 years so it doesn't make any sense that means only the Christians that reach Jesus in his second coming but not all these for 2,000 years all of these would have already died so the true understanding here was that upon death they will realize that this was not the truth ok then they bring this other verse of the Quran to say or alive speaking about Jesus and then follows on by saying that were in a hula I'll Melissa and it is a the knowledge of the hour they say oh this means and Jesus is the sign of the hour so when Jesus comes again he will
be the second first of all allies and said that what have them verse 18 say Hasan al-basri said that it is talking about the quran the quran is a sign of the hour once again if initially the table brings that some people believed it's muhammed sallalahu lives alone second okay thirdly let's go with your interpretation let's just go with your yo-yo take this is Jesus that he is referring to Jesus but let's go with it as it's red what in who that and Jesus is the knowledge of the hour it doesn't say sign then say la alum says la el moon lisa is the knowledge so what Jesus
has knowledge about the end of time is that what I mean they can say yeah but knowledge hear me the sign it's the mean whoa what's all this interpretation I thought you said God is so clearly said this in the Quran so look this people is my summary of saying look these people quoting all these things have contradictions them quoting this being motivated doesn't make sense because they reject themselves so many motivated alleged claims them saying each man that scholars reject this and they disagree amongst himself I'm saying this is in the books of a fee that is interesting
because what about the Maddy do you know who said the Maddy was motivated even a Hodja said he was motivated show candy brings more hadith for the mackney then he does for Jesus he brings 50 hadith regarding the Maddy if natural Haytham me a Sahara is safari me Albert is mg all these people say the Maddy is motor water yet it's not in the Howie you know your sacred the Howie if you reject the line of the Howie it's not in the early books of art either a
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