Amin Ahsan Islahi: Not Proven Any Apostle was Slain

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

والصلاة والسلام على اشرف الانبياء والمرسلين

The astray modernist Amin Ahsan Islahi claimed in his tafsir:

رسولوں میں سے کسی کا اس کی قوم کے ہاتھوں قتل ہونا ثابت نہیں ہے۔

From among the Apostles it isn’t proven that any one of them was slain at the hands of his people (Tadabbur-i-Quran; v.7 p.542):

However, the fact that there were indeed Apostles of Allah who were murdered by their people unto whom they were sent is established from several verses of the holy Quran:

اَفَکُلَّمَا جَآءَکُمۡ رَسُوۡلٌۢ بِمَا لَا تَہۡوٰۤی اَنۡفُسُکُمُ اسۡتَکۡبَرۡتُمۡ ۚ فَفَرِیۡقًا کَذَّبۡتُمۡ ۫ وَ فَرِیۡقًا تَقۡتُلُوۡنَ

Will you then, every time a Messenger comes to you with what you yourselves desire not, behave arrogantly and treat some as liars and slay others?

(Surah 2:87)

کُلَّمَا جَآءَہُمۡ رَسُوۡلٌۢ بِمَا لَا تَہۡوٰۤی اَنۡفُسُہُمۡ ۙ فَرِیۡقًا کَذَّبُوۡا وَ فَرِیۡقًا یَّقۡتُلُوۡنَ

But every time there came to them a Messenger with what their souls desired not, they treated some as liars, and some they killed

(Surah 5:70)

قُلۡ قَدۡ جَآءَکُمۡ رُسُلٌ مِّنۡ قَبۡلِیۡ بِالۡبَیِّنٰتِ وَ بِالَّذِیۡ قُلۡتُمۡ فَلِمَ قَتَلۡتُمُوۡہُمۡ اِنۡ کُنۡتُمۡ صٰدِقِیۡنَ

Say, ‘There have already come to you Messengers before me with clear Signs and with that which you speak of. Why, then, did you kill them, if you are truthful?’

(Surah 3:183)

If it is argued that in these verses the term rasul is used in a general linguistic sense and not in the technical sense, then we shall quote the following Ayah:

وَ مَا مُحَمَّدٌ اِلَّا رَسُوۡلٌ ۚ قَدۡ خَلَتۡ مِنۡ قَبۡلِہِ الرُّسُلُ ؕ اَفَا۠ئِنۡ مَّاتَ اَوۡ قُتِلَ انۡقَلَبۡتُمۡ عَلٰۤی اَعۡقَابِکُمۡ

And Muhammad is only a Messenger. Verily, all Messengers have passed away before him. If then he die or be slain, will you turn back on your heels?

(Surah 3:144)

In this Ayah Allah Most High speaks of the Messenger Muhammad (sall Allahu alaihi wasallam) regarding whom there is no doubt that in addition to being a Prophet he was an Apostle, as the Ayah itself makes plain. And from this Ayah it is proven that despite being a Rasul there is the possibility that he (sall Allahu alaihi wasallam) may be slain.