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Al [Imran 3: 53–6

We believe in Allah, and be our witness that we have sub- mitted ourselves exclusively to Allah. (53) Our Lord! We believe in the commandment You have revealed and we obey the Messenger; make us, then, one of those who bear witness (to the Truth).”

(54) Then they schemed (against the Messiah), and Allah countered their schemes by schemes of His own. Allah is the best of schemers. (55) (And it was part of His scheme) when Allah said. “O Jesus! I will recall you16 and raise you up to Me and will purify you (of the company) of those who disbelieve, and will set your followers above the unbelievers till the Day of Resurrection. Then to Me shall all of you return, and I shall judge between you regarding whatever you differed among yourselves. (56) As for those who disbelieved, I shall inflict a terrible chastisement on them in this world and in the Next; ▶

16 The expression used is mutawaffika. The original meaning of tawaffa is to take and receive. To “seize a person’s soul” constitutes the figurative rather than the literal meaning of the word.

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