There is one verse in Surah Raad which is وَلَقَدْ أَرْسَلْنَا مِنْ قَبْلِكَ رُسَلًا وَجَعَلْنَا لُهُمْ أَزْوَاجًا وَزُرِيَدًا In my opinion, the word مِنْ قَبْلِكَ applies first of all to Hazrat Isa A.S. And this means he must have merit and he must have chastity. This is not a correct inference because that verse does not imply that all the prophets before you merit. It never says that. It says that before you prophets came and the prophets also merit. This is the statement which means to marry is not against prophethood.
That is all what it says. To marry is not against prophethood. This is the import of that statement. It does not imply that because it is not against prophethood to marry, so all prophets before you must have merit. This is the wrong inference. You see, I tell you, it is categorically proved wrong in the very age of Jesus Christ because you all know positively that Hazrat Yahya never merit and he was martyred. So why do you forget Yahya while remembering Jesus?
