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[quote]The verse of Quran in Question is:
43:61 وَإِنَّهُ لَعِلْمٌ لِّلسَّاعَةِ فَلَا تَمْتَرُنَّ بِهَا وَاتَّبِعُونِ ۚ هَٰذَا صِرَاطٌ مُّسْتَقِيمٌ 
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And indeed, it is knowledge of the Hour, so be not in doubt of it and follow Me. This is the straight path.
I have dropped the conjectures used in the form words inside brackets or any other words injected as a part of translation so now it acts a literal translation. Now the reason that I have translated 
“إِنَّهُ لَعِلْمٌ لِّلسَّاعَةِ” as “it is knowledge of the Hour” instead of “he is knowledge of the Hour” is simple. I can see that the context for translating it as such and that of understanding this verse is present inside itself. Let me try to explain:
First phrase does not start with “Qul” and I think everyone agrees that Allah is saying, “And indeed, it is knowledge of the Hour”
In the second phrase the word Me, “فَلَا تَمْتَرُنَّ بِهَا وَاتَّبِعُونِ” (which means “so be not in doubt of it and follow Me”) refers to Allah obviously as it is not possible that Jesus says about himself that “He is the sign of Hour” he would rather say, &quot;And indeed, I am the knowledge of the Hour” therefore my rendering as, “And indeed, it is knowledge of the Hour”
The last phrase in the same verse says, “هَٰذَا صِرَاطٌ مُّسْتَقِيمٌ” which means “This is the straight path”
This was a brief on why it was translated as it is above. Now the second question it is very evident from the verse that:
“it is knowledge of the Hour” ==&gt; “so be not in doubt of it and follow Me”==&gt; “This is the straight path” all the phrases are simply inter-related.
Now let me replace it by “something” and say that
“something” is the knowledge of the Hour 
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Question: What is that Allah wants us to follow to be on right path? The simple answer is that “something: is Quran. We all know that is the last Book and it was revealed to the last prophet so indeed Quran is the “knowledge of the Hour” or “knowledge of the Day of the Judgment”
In order to further support the argument: 
1.	In Surah Fatiha we pray to Allah, “اهْدِنَا الصِّرَاطَ الْمُسْتَقِيمَ”
2.	As soon as we finish our petition for the guidance Allah comes with an answer the Surah Baqarah, “ذَٰلِكَ الْكِتَابُ لَا رَيْبَ ۛ فِيهِ ۛ هُدًى لِّلْمُتَّقِينَ”. Makes sense? We asked for the guidance and Allah told us immediately, “This is the Book about which there is no doubt, a guidance for those conscious of Allah” So I think that we now are sure that only straight path is “Quran” or the “right path” or “الصِّرَاطَ الْمُسْتَقِيم”. The verses 6:39 and 24:64 and 46:30 clearly mention the same clearly and I think we all know that what is the straight or right path. Allah consider either His verses or His Book (any Book revealed to His prophet in unaltered state) or the message contained therein as straight path and nothing else.
3.	Now finally let us use Tasreef Al-Ayat and see that if Quran uses the phrase, “لَعِلْمٌ لِّلسَّاعَةِ” a word with similar construction, anywhere else? And bingo! we got the answer:
[hl]42:17 اللَّهُ الَّذِي أَنزَلَ الْكِتَابَ بِالْحَقِّ وَالْمِيزَانَ ۗ وَمَا يُدْرِيكَ لَعَلَّ السَّاعَةَ قَرِيبٌ[/hl]It is Allah who has sent down the Book in Haq and the Mizan. And for all you, the Last Hour may well be near
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I think that everyone can see from the above verse that what the above verse means and I should not comment any further!!!

Fortunately, I have been pondering over all the Quran for all possibilities of coming back of Jesus. One of the best set arguments in the favor of Jesus return written seem to be written by “Harun Yahya” at www.harunyahya.com/jesus01.php but I have found answers to all his confusions and some of my arguments are similar to what smasher has already presented above.[/quote]

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