Assalamualikum,
This is off the topic, I tried sending but couldn't find the right way round, sorry.
I am just wondering if you could kindly shed some light on the verse 5:117 please.
Zakallah khyar
Assalamualikum,
Actually ,not only Shakir rendered the meaning as "to die" but also other translations ,including ;Muhammad Asad , Wahiduddin Khan,Amatul Rahman Omar,Shabbir Ahmed,George Sale
why did those translators rendered it that way? why some muslim scholars believe that Jesus died a natural death,and hence denying or questioning the belief of the second coming of Jesus? what was the final scene of the mission of jesus on Earth, according to the Quran?
all those questions will be answered throughly,with new fresh lines, in my next thread "which I'm about to finish inshallah soon" ......
I will post that thread inshllah in the section "Crucifixion or Crucifiction" ........
the following is the outline of the study:
1- In response to the jews plan to excute Jesus in a humilating scanelous way,God took jesus up to heaven,according to the Holy Quran.
2- the claimes of someone substituted Jesus on the cross ,or was swooned ,are not only conjectural "forcing between the lines" theories ,but also not in accordance with the linguestic Quranic input.
3- Though the verb "tawaffa" when applied to a human ,is usually translated as "caused to die" , there are reasons to render it to the possible alternative meaning "to take fully".
4- In spite of that ,there is no clear proof from the Quran that Jesus will come again a second coming.
5- Are convinced that "tawaffa" should mean "caused to die" ,finding no clear proof from the Quran that Jesus will come again , mistrusting the non-Quranic traditions claiming a second coming of Jesus ,some sunni scholars denied ,or questioned the second coming of Jesus ...
including the prominent Salafi scholar Muhammad Rashid Rida ,Imam Muhammad Abduh ,grand imams of al azhar Mahmud Shaltut , Mustafa l'Maraghi,Muhammad Abu Zahra. etc....
6- The belief of jesus death ,denying or questioning his second coming ,should by no mean gets a muslim who think so outside the fold of Islam ,moreover of no value for the christian critics ,who think that believing in jesus death is equal to believing in him as being crucified and atoned people by his blood.
that is some of the outline of the study ..... hope I finish it all and post it later inshallah.