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HARUN YAHYA

between the age of 30 and 50, someone who is no longer
young, someone who has reached the perfect age. Islamic

scholars agree that it denotes the age of 35 or above, based
upon a hadith reported by Ibn 'Abbas that the Prophet Jesus
(pbuh) was raised up to Allah's Presence in his early 30s
and that he will live for 40 more years when he comes again.
Given that he can reach old age only by coming again, he
must come again. 70
Although all of the prophets spoke with their people,
invited them to the true religion, and communicated their
message at a mature age, the Qur'an does not use such ex-
pressions when talking about them. Rather, they are used
only to voice a miraculous situation, because the expres-
sions in the cradle and when fully grown, when used one after
the other, refer to two miraculous events. The Egyptian
Islamic scholar Khalil Herras drew attention to this:
The word kahl in the verse is directed toward the word
mahd, which precedes it and is an adverb of place. In the ab-
sence of a special clue, it continues to carry the same mean-
ing of the word before it. Therefore, in the same way that
Jesus' (pbuh) speaking immediately after his birth is a miracle, so
the same miracle needs to take place in his adulthood. Otherwise,
there is nothing miraculous in a person speaking in adult-
hood and the wisdom of its revelation in the verse could
not be understood. However, if Jesus (pbuh) speaks after
appearing on Earth, that would be a miracle… 71