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Salam Dear Hamid,
Thank you for your question and for contacting Ask About Islam.
Muslims can only say about the future whatever has been told to us by God through His prophets. With respect to your question, whatever the Bible may say is not relevant to the religion of Islam. The Bible is not considered an authoritative source for Muslims.
The reason for this is that the Bible in existence today—both the Old and the New Testaments—is not the original. Are the books available today written in the language they were revealed in?
The oldest extant copy of the Old Testament is the Leningrad Codex dated from the eleventh century, and the oldest extant copies of the New Testament are the Codex Vaticanus and the Codex Sinaiticus dating from the fourth century. Therefore, any reference to the Bible for Muslims is simply not acceptable.
I have a Christian background, from which I understood that Christians believe that Jesus (peace be upon him) would ascend to heaven and sit at the right hand of God, from whence he will come to judge the quick and the dead, according to the Christian Apostolic Creed. With respect, I wonder if the person who has been talking to you is, in fact, making fun of you.
From the Islamic perspective, I can find no reference as to who will be next to Allah. Since Muslims have no image of God (Allah) in their minds, I believe the question to be a non-question. It doesn’t make sense even to this writer. We are told in the Quran what means:
{When the waqi`ah occurs, there is not for its occurrence, kadhibah. Bringing low [some], exalting [others]. When the earth will be shaken with a terrible shake, and the mountains will be powdered to dust, so that they will become floating dust particles. And you will [all] be in three groups: so, those on the right [i.e. those who will be given their records in their right hands] – how [fortunate] will be those on the right; and those on the left [i.e. those who will be given their records in their left hands] – how [unfortunate] will be those on the left; and those foremost will be those foremost; these will be the nearest [to Allah], in the Gardens of Delight.} (Al-Waqi`ah 56:1-12)
Where Al-Waqi`ah is the Occurrence, one of the names for the Day of Resurrection, and kadhibah means none can stop it, deny it or prevent it from occurring.
Even to consider someone next to Allah on the Day of Judgment, to this writer’s mind, is to consider someone sharing with Allah, which would be shirk (polytheism), the greatest sin in Islam and the one sin that Allah will never forgive if someone dies without having repented of it.
I hope this answer is helpful to you. Thank you and please keep in touch.
Salam.