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Also one point that we do need to discuss about Issa that is explicitly mentioned in this Surah, Surah Ali Imran.

It is a key verse that we need to understand, verse number 55, that

with Qalallahu Ya'isa in Nimutawafika wa Raafiruqa ilayya, that when Issa, when Allah said, O Jesus, I am

Mutawafika, I'll translate this in a while, wa Raafiruqa ilayya, and I will raise you up. Now

mainstream

Muslims from the time of

the earliest of times, mainstream Muslims have believed that Issa, the son of Mary, Jesus, that Allah Subhanahu

Ta'ala saved him from

being killed by the children of Israel, and that Allah Subhanahu Ta'ala miraculously raised him up alive,

and that he is still alive now, and that he will come and return towards the end of times.

Now, this is the belief, and is the standard belief of mainstream Muslims that have the left

on the beginning of time. There are some people who go against this theology, and they believe that

Jesus was killed on the cross, or Jesus died in a natural fashion or whatever, and they use this

verse of the Qur'an, where Allah says in Nimawta wa Fika, and they translate Mawta wa Fika as,

we will cause you to die, because Tawaffa does mean to die. There is the correct interpretation,

there is no question about it, that one meaning of Tawaffa is to die, but what did I just say 10

minutes ago? When there is a vague verse, the Qur'an is telling us, don't just use this vagueness,

don't just read in your meaning, look at the entire message, and for evidences beyond the scope of

today's brief talk here, but there are verses in the Qur'an, so do the Zumr Hazid, there are other

verses as well, there are many Ahadi that are very explicit in this regard, that we're going to have

to understand Mawta wa Fika over here, not as to cause to die, but another meaning, because in the Qur'an,

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