The soul does not really die, but when it separates from the body at the time of the
death of the body, the soul will get a taste of death. But our Comforter was to
"ABIDE" continue, endure forever. All Comforters abide with us forever. Moses is
here with us today in his teachings. Jesus is here with us today in his teachings and
Muhammad also is here with us in his teachings today. (May the peace and blessings
of
God be upon them all). This is not my novel idea trying to justify the preposterous. I
say this with conviction and on the authority of Jesus Christ (pbuh) himself.
In Luke, chapter sixteen, Jesus (pbuh) tells us the story of the "Rich Man, Poor Man.'
At death both find themselves at opposite ends — one in Heaven and the other in
Hell. The rich man (Dives) simmering in
Hell cries to Father Abraham to send the beggar (Lazarus) to assuage his thirst. But
when every plea fails, he, as a last favor, requests that Father Abraham send the
beggar back to earth to warn his living brothers against their impending doom if
they heeded not the warnings of God.
But Abraham said, "If they (those still alive on earth) won't listen to Moses and the
prophets, they won't listen even though someone rises from the dead. " (to warn
them) (HOLY BIBLE) Luke 16: 31
Jesus (pbuh) uttered the above fact centuries after the demise of the prophets of
Israel like Jeremiah, Hosea, Zechariah, etc and over thirteen hundred years after
Moses (pbuh). The Pharisees at the time of Jesus (pbuh) and we today can still listen
to "MOSES AND THE PROPHETS," for they are still alive, and with us here today in
their teachings.
Another clear reference is as follows:
Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures: “‘The stone that the
builders rejected has become the cornerstone; this was the Lord’s doing, and it is
marvelous in our eyes’?
"Therefore I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given
to a people who will produce its fruit. He who falls on this stone will be broken to
pieces, but he on whom it falls will be crushed." [Matthew 21:42]
Now compare that with what the Prophet Muhammad said about himself:
A. The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said, "My likeness and the likeness of the
prophets before me is like a man who built a house and completed it, except for one
brick of it. So the people took to going around it and marveling at it, saying, 'If only
you would place this brick!' I am that brick." [Sahih al-Jami` al-Saghir]
What the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said agrees with what it says in the Gospel of
Matthew: "Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders