Question:
DEAR HAZRAT SAHIB
ASSALAMUALAIKUM WA RAHMATULLAHI WA BARAKATUHU
MAY ALLAH TA’ALA KEEP YOU SAFE AND ELEVATE YOU IN HIS DIVINE PRESENCE, AAMEEN.
WHEN HAZRAT EESA [A.S] RETURNS TO THIS EARTH TO KILL DAJJAAL AND ESTABLISHED A ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT , WILL HE HAVE THE
POWER TO CURE INFIRMITIES AND DISABILITIES BY THE POWER OF ALLAH TA’ALA , AS HE DID BEFORE HIS ASCENSION [RAFAA] FROM THE MOUNT OF OLIVES? DOES ALLAH TAKE AWAY THE GIFTS GIVEN TO AMBIYAA [A.S] E.G. THE POWER OF SHIFA TO HAZRAT EESA [A.S] ?
WHAT KIND OF POWER WILL ALLAH TA’ALA GIVE TO HAZRAT MAHDI [R.A]?
WASSALAAM
Answer:
1) We have not come across any information explaining whether Hazrat Isaa (A.S.) will possess the power of exercising miracles that he performed prior to his ascension. It is Allah who endows the Ambiyaa with divine gifts, such as miracles, and it is He who has the power of retracting them.
(Fataawaa Rashidiyyah, Page 92, 93, 108)
2) Allah (S.W.T.) will grant Imam Mahdi the power of a true leader, as understood from a Hadith of Nabi (S.A.W.), “Mahdi is from me (my progeny). He will have a broad forehead and curved nose. He will spread justice on the earth as much as it would be filled with injustice and oppression. He will lead for a period of seven years.”
(Mishkaat, Page 470)
And Allah Ta’ala knows best
Ebrahim bin Zainul Abedeen Backus
Attested to as correct by:
Mufti Muhammad Ashraf
Darul Iftaa
Jameah Mahmoodiyah
Springs
31 May 2005
22 Rabee’uth Thaani 1426