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The claim of Jesus'
crucifiction
“…And they did not kill him and did
not crucify him, but it seemed to them such. Those who argue
about it. They have no knowledge about it. They have no
knowledge about it, and only follow conjecture. They surely
did not kill him, but Allah raised him to Himself…”
Sura 4,
An – Nisa, aya 157-158, tells us
the truth about Jesus: that the Jews did not kill nor crucify
Jesus, that they have no knowledge concerning this matter and
only assume that he had been crucified without being sure
about it, and that Allah instead saved him from dying on the
cross and raised him to Himself. Crucification is a
disgraceful death; in Sura 5, al – Maida, aya 33, Allah
prescribes this death for those who make war with Allah and
His messengers. Therefore, He will not make His chosen
messengers suffer such a death. Accordingly it is said in
Deuteronomy (5th Book of Moses)
21.22-23:
"And if a man has committed a
crime punishable by death and he is put to death, and you hang
him on a tree, his body shall not remain all night upon the
tree, but you shall bury him the same day, for a hanged man is
accursed by God; you shall not defile your land which the LORD
your God gives you for an inheritance.”
Now, god does not accuse His
prophets, and this is reason enough that the whole story about
crucification cannot be true. Christian theologians, however,
claim that god actually cursed His alleged son (Cf. The claim
of sonship to god), so he would pay off for the sins of
mankind. Again, this nonsense about salvation from “inherited
sin” contradicts the law given in the Old Testament. In
Deuteronomy (5th Book of Moses) 24.16 is
stated:
"The fathers shall not be put
to death for the children, nor shall the children be put to
death for the fathers; every man shall be put to death for his
own sin."
Similarly Ezekiel
18.20
“The soul that sins shall die. The
son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the
father suffer for the iniquity of the son; the righteousness
of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness
of the wicked shall be upon
himself.”
This is
identical with the Qur’anic statement that ho soul shall bear
another’s burden (Qur’an, Sura 6, Al – Anam, aya 164; Sura 17,
Al – Isra, aya 15; Sura 35, Fatir, aya 18; Sura 39, Az –
Zumar, aya 7: Sura 53, An – Nagm, aya 38.)
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