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Lord's signs to you and warning you of the meeting on this

day?" They will reply: "Indeed they did." But the decree of
punishment is justly carried out against the unbelievers.
(Surat az-Zumar:71)
As we have seen, Allah gives examples of conversa-
tions carried out in the Hereafter. The conversation with the
Prophet Jesus (pbuh) will take place with our Lord in the
Hereafter, after he has come to Earth for a second time and
then died.
Christians have fallen into serious error by deifying
the Prophet Jesus (pbuh). (Allah is surely beyond that.)
Those who adhere to this error will have to give an account
in Allah's Presence on the Day of Judgment. According to
the Qur'an, the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) will bear witness that
they turned away from the true religion, because, like all

other prophets, he called his society to believe in Allah as
the one and only and to serve only Him. Surat al-
Ma’ida:119 says that this event will occur in the Hereafter,
which means that it refers to the Day of Judgment, as re-
vealed in the above verses. The sentence "This is the day
when the sincerity of the sincere will benefit them" indicates this.
In conclusion, this conversation refers to the future,
not the past. In addition, there is no indication given in the
verse "when You took me back to You" that can be interpreted
in such a way to support the mistaken claim that the
Prophet Jesus (pbuh) died in the past. Thus, this verse can-
not be used as evidence that the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) has