wa alaykum as-salam,
As for Isa -alayhi as-salam- the general opinion among the zaydi scholarship is a physical raising, some are of the opinion that it means caused to die.
As for Idris -alayhi as-salam- it is a raising in rank/honor:
Imam Badr al-Din Ibn Amir al-Din al-Huthi -alayhi as-salam- said in his tafseer:
“[Remember] when Allah said: ‘O Jesus, I will take you (mutawaffīka) and raise you up to Myself and purify you from those who disbelieve.’” (Qur’an 3:55)
His saying
{إِذْ} (idh / ‘when’) is a temporal expression. If it is connected to the phrase referring to
Allahs’s plotting (makr Allāh), then it functions as an
adverbial clause of time; but if the meaning is
“and remember when Allah said,” then it serves as a
direct object of the verb
“remember.”
As for His saying
{مُتَوَفِّيكَ} (“I will take you”), it is like His saying:
“Allah takes the souls at the time of their death, and those that have not died during their sleep.” (Qur’an 39:42)
And His saying
{وَرَافِعُكَ إِلَيَّ وَمُطَهِّرُكَ مِنَ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا} —
“and raising you up to Me and purifying you from those who disbelieve” — means:
purifying you from their defilement, so that they will not reach you by
killing or
capturing you, nor will you have to
hear their vile speech.
Imam al-Mahdi al-Ayyani -alayhi as salam- said in his tafseer:
“And [We raised him] to a high station.” (Qur’an 19:57)
Meaning: a station of
great excellence and high virtue.
Imam Abu al-Fath al-Daylami alayhi as-salam said in his tafseer:
“Rather, Allah raised him up to Himself.” (Qur’an 4:158)
Meaning:
Allah raised him to a realm where no human authority or rule applies.
Thus, his being raised to a state beyond the reach of human judgment or control is what is meant by
“Allah raised him up to Himself.”
His saying, exalted is He:
“…and We raised him to a high station.” (Qur’an 19:57)
means:
to the highest place and rank,
that is,
to an exalted position in status and honor.
wa salam
