John

A man named Lazarus, brother of Mariam and Martha, from the village of Bethany, was sick.

This is the Mariam, the sister of the sick man, who had put expensive, perfumed oil on our mawla and wiped his feet with her hair.

The two sisters sent news to Isa, "Master, your beloved friend is sick."

When Isa heard this news, he said, "The purpose of this sickness is not death. It is for the splendor of the glory of Allah, so that the splendor of the glory of the beloved Amir of Allah will be shown."

Isa loved Martha, her sister, and Lazarus.

So when Isa heard the news of the sickness of Lazarus, he remained where he was for two more days.

Then he said to the hawariyun, "Let us go to Yahudia."

They answered him, "Honored teacher, will you return there? The Yahudi leaders tried to kill you recently."

Isa answered, "Are there not twelve hours in a day? The person who walks in the day will not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.

But if someone walks in the night, he stumbles, because there is no light in him."

Then he said, "Our beloved Lazarus is asleep, and I will go and awaken him."

The hawariyun said, "Our mawla, if he is asleep, he will awaken."

Isa had meant the sleep of death, but the hawariyun thought he meant normal sleep.

So Isa told them clearly, "Lazarus has died.

I am happy that I was not there. It is for your benefit, so that you can truly trust in me. Let us go to him."

Thomas, called Twin, said to the rest of the hawariyun, "Let us go and die with him."

When he arrived, Isa found that Lazarus had been in the grave for four days.

Since Bethany was only two miles from Al-Quds,

many people of Al-Yahud had come to comfort Martha and Mariam.

Martha heard that Isa had come, so she went out to meet him. Mariam remained sitting at home.

Martha said to Isa, "My mawla, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.

And I know for certain that even now, Allah will answer what you ask him."

Isa told her, "Your brother will be resurrected alive."

Martha said, "I know that he will be resurrected on the last day."

Isa told her, "I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever trusts in me will live, even if he dies.

And whoever lives and believes in me will never be destroyed. Do you believe this?"

She said, "Yes, my mawla, I believe that you are Al-Masih, the beloved Amir of Allah who comes into the world.

After that, Martha went and whispered to her sister, "The teacher has come and he is calling you."

She got up as soon as she heard this, and went quickly to him.

Isa was still outside the village, in the place where Martha met him.

The Yahudi comforters in the house saw that Mariam left quickly, and they followed her. They thought she was going to the grave to cry there.

Mariam came to Isa, and she prostrated herself at his feet. She said, "My mawla, if you had been here, my brother would not have died."

Isa saw her crying and the crying of Al-Yahud who were with her. So he was sad from the bottom of his Ruh and very troubled.

He asked, "Where have you buried him?" They said, "Come and see, our master."

And Isa cried.

The Yahudi people said, "Look how much of a friend he was to him."

But a group of them said, "He healed the man born blind. Could he not have protected him from death?"

Then Isa came to the grave, and again was sad from the bottom of his Ruh. The grave was a cave, closed with a stone.

Isa ordered, "Lift the stone away." Martha, the sister of the dead man, said, "My mawla, he has been dead for four days. There will be a bad smell from him."

Isa said to her, "Did I not tell you that you would see the splendor of the glory of Allah if you would trust?"

So they lifted the stone away. Then Isa lifted his eyes up and prayed in dua', "Al-Malik Al-Wadud Al-Mujeeb, I praise and thank you that you have answered me.

I know that you always answer me. But I said this so that these people here would believe that you sent me."

After that, he shouted, "Lazarus, come out!"

The dead man came out. His hands and feet were wrapped up. His face was wrapped with a cloth. Isa ordered them, "Untie him and let him go."

Many of Al-Yahud who came with Mariam believed in him when they saw this miracle.

But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Isa had done.

The leading ahbar and the Pharisees met in the highest council. They said, "What shall we do? This man does many miracles.

If we let him continue like this, everyone will believe in him. Then the Romans will come and destroy our place and our umma."

Caiaphas, who was chief habr that year, said, "You do not understand anything.

You do not realize that it is better for you if one man dies as a ransom for the people. That way, the whole umma will not be destroyed."

He did not say this of himself. But since he was chief habr, he prophesied that Isa would die as a ransom for the umma.

Not only for the umma, but also for all the scattered family of Allah, to make them one.

So they began conspiring that day to kill him.

So Isa no longer walked in public among Al-Yahud. Instead, he traveled to a town called Ephraim, on the edge of the wilderness. He stayed there with the hawariyun.

The time for the Eid of Pardon of Al-Yahud came, and many performed hajj from the villages to Al-Quds to purify themselves before the Eid.

They were looking for Isa. They stood in the house of Allah and asked each other, "What do you think? Will he come to the Eid or not?"

The leading ahbar and the Pharisees had issued a fatwa. It required anyone who knew where Isa was to inform on him so they could arrest him.