Killing ALLAH's Messiah Implies Permanence

Both the words killed and crucified as used in An-Nisa 4:158 imply forever dead. So the Holy Quran strongly affirms that ALLAH's Messiah Isa was neither killed nor was he crucified in the usual meaning of these two powerful words because he was alive three days later. Therefore, the Holy Quran, in An-Nisa 4:157 and 158 definitely reveal the reality that ALLAH only allowed His Messiah to experience temporary death at the hands of frantic, hateful Jewish leaders. But he definitely did not experience permanent death.

Consequently, when the Arabic phrase "Shubbiiha lahum", is used in the Quran, which is accurately translated into English as "it appeared so to them" the entire matter of the Holy Quran stating that the Messiah Isa had definitely not been killed or crucified is immediately clarified.

Since the Messiah obviously experienced death at the cruel hands of Jerusalem's angry, jealous leaders in complicity with the Roman Governor Pilate, there could be no denial of the sense of both relief and completion experienced by the Israeli leaders the moment the Messiah finally took his last breath.

Yes, it 100 percent appeared to those leaders (shubbiiha lahum) that they had been successful in permanently ridding themselves from the dreadful embarrassment and threat caused by this amazing man. He was even on their legal Sabbath Day healing very sick people in their midst and also was claiming to be accomplishing these amazing miracles such as giving first time sight to those born blind and even raising the dead, by direct power from GOD as strong statements from the Holy Quran also confirm.

Thus, after the brutal, sadistic illegal execution was successfully completed, these greatly relieved political and religious leaders had absolutely no doubt that they were finally finished forever with this man who even claimed to have been sent directly from GOD.

But, according to An-Nisa 4:158 of the Holy Quran, due to both ALLAH's everlasting Wisdom and His Eternal Might, these leaders of Israel were soon proven wrong that they had finished with him forever. Instead, it only appeared to them (shubbiiha lahum) that they had totally accomplished their sinister purpose of forever getting rid of him.

But to their complete surprise, these temporarily happy and relieved leaders were similar to youthful, but a naïve player at a soccer game celebrating an apparent victory long before the actual game was completely over.

So why were Jerusalem's religious leaders so quick to confuse the Messiah's temporary death with his permanent death? Because when they had temporarily ended his life, these Jerusalem leaders confused what "it appeared to them" that had happened, (shubbiiha lahum) with what ALLAH would cause to happen three days later by raising his obedient, faithful Messiah up alive.

To put the situation into a term often used in a mathematical equation, in these leaders' temporary joy and temporary relief, they totally failed to factor in the eternal Wisdom and the eternal Might of ALLAH that He used to raise His Messiah from death to new life. Instead of factoring in these two wonderful characteristics of ALLAH, these short sighted leaders relied only on their own superficial reasoning which was no match for the eternal Wisdom and eternal Might of ALLAH.

In vivid contrast to these myopic leaders' superficiality, the Holy Quran not for one second makes a similar mistake of leaving out ALLAH's eternal Wisdom and His eternal Might. Yes, this Holy Book of Islam immediately gives all the credit for guaranteeing that His Messiah's apparent permanent death was only an exceedingly temporary death due to ALLAH's Own Wisdom and His Own Might.

For the radiant, triumphant, power packed verse that immediately follows the scholarly longer verse that declared that the Messiah was not truly killed and not truly crucified in the genuine sense of what the two words actually imply, suddenly makes a breakthrough declaration. This astonishing verse 4:158 reveals that ALLAH Himself used His own Wisdom and Might in reality to cancel that which it appeared to the religious leaders that they had accomplished through murdering him. But what it appeared to them (shubbiiha lahum) that they had accomplished by their murder of him, was soon voided like a bad check is voided. Their evil murder of the Messiah became as if it had not ever occurred when ALLAH used His own Wisdom and Might to raise His Messiah from death to life. So what they had done to ALLAH's Messiah was soon blotted out and undone when ALLAH raised his own now victorious Messiah from death to new life with Himself as the Holy Quran triumphantly and wonderfully proclaims in An-Nisa 4:158.

For further comment on this amazing triumph by ALLAH when he raised His Messiah to new life, please see the Poem on this website titled, "Shubbiiha Lahum". Please also re-read An-Nisa 4:158 in the Holy Quran.

Silly

It's absolutely silly that intelligent Muslim leaders in this day of enlightenment continue to ignore the obvious way that the Holy Quran intends two words killed and crucified to be understood in this one unique, profound verse. After seriously considering its unique wording, it becomes obvious that this one verse is exposing the superficiality of the leaders and that it is not attempting to re-write or to correct history.

This is especially true of 4:157 in light of the glorious proclamation dynamically proclaimed in the very next verse. In this next verse, ALLAH's amazing triumph through his eternal Wisdom and eternal Might by suddenly raising His Messiah to Himself is gloriously declared.

For Muslim leaders to callously continue to conspire to deprive deserving Muslims everywhere of the wonderful fruit of their now being able to enjoy fellowship with ALLAH's own Living Messiah who is even now alive in their midst is open rebellion against ALLAH. For these Muslim leaders to disallow this privilege and gift provided by ALLAH to all Muslims is not only these so called leaders offending ALLAH, but it also appears to be evidence of these misguided leaders depriving Muslims everywhere of a gift ALLAH fully intends each Muslim to be able to benefit from. But these calloused leaders seem to sense a dishonorable satisfaction and sense of power by depriving Muslims of ALLAH's wonderful gift to them of His Risen Messiah.

Furthermore, the demeaning, contrived suggestion by confused Muslim leaders that the Exalted ALLAH Himself manipulated a CIA type identity switch and actually conspired with His Messiah to deceive the entire population of Jerusalem about the true identity of the totally innocent man being illegally executed, is definitely not worthy of ALLAH. Neither is such gross deception justified by the phrase, "shubbiiha lahum" (it appeared so unto them) when this phrase is applied in its intended way. Nor is it worthy of Muslim leaders to make the silly, absurd claim that the exalted ALLAH secretly and covertly participated with His faithful Messiah in a CIA type identity switch.

Therefore, now is the time for an open public proclamation of the truth of An-Nisa 4:157 and 158. Because this is the only decision which is truly worthy of Islam and which will provide the freedom and opportunity for ALLAH's now Risen Messiah to openly participate in bringing healing and leadership to an Islam which is under hostile attack by many various forces. Furthermore, I have written extensively on this website that this acknowledging of the death and resurrection of ALLAH's now Risen Messiah is the actual vital step that the Prophet Muhammad himself wanted and expected Muslims to take. But he only wanted Islam to wait to take this important step when Islam became strong enough to stand up to the potential of an aggressive Christianity to attempt to manipulate an Islam at the time it would more fully embrace ALLAH's Risen Messiah. So now that strategic time has arrived when Islam is strong enough to successfully resist any attempts by an established Christianity to manipulate Islam.

To further postpone the time that recalcitrant leaders finally acknowledge the presence of ALLAH's Risen Messiah in their midst is to needlessly impose a severe penalty on multitudes of precious Muslim women. These are the vulnerable women and even girls who live in certain demographic areas of Islam where the spiritual recognition of the Risen Messiah in their midst would greatly contribute to the welfare of especially ALLAH's truly beloved women by forcing the Muslim men to become much more accountable to the Risen Messiah for how they treat Muslim women and girls. For it is authoritatively taught in the Scriptures that GOD's raising His Messiah from death to life is GOD's sign that His Risen Messiah will soon be the Judge of us all. (Please see the Book of Acts, Chapter 17, verse 31.)

For example, the current special issue of Time Magazine, (5-10-2010), features 100 persons who Time considers the most influential people in the World. I do not wish to detract in any way from the courage of the two Muslim women and one pre-teenager, either mentioned or featured in that issue of Time. But there is one spiritual factor that could have potentially made a great difference in these women's lives and in other Muslim women's lives who have been forced by the universally accepted current wrong interpretation by Muslim authorities of the supposed intent of certain verses in the Quran. And these severe current misleading interpretations have resulted in these two adult women and this one pre-teen girl to endure extreme hardships while their own eyes have also observed others enduring similar hardships that Muslim authorities could have and should have prevented.

I am not suggesting that it would have been the forced imposition of Western Christianity into their respective nations that would have made the major difference. But what I am suggesting is this. If Muslim leaders will finally encourage an enlightened understanding at the least of the combination of An-Nisa 4:157 and 158, that will be a major forward step for the more humane treatment of especially girls and women in Islam. When this more correct insight occurs it will be understood by Muslims that it is the Will of ALLAH that the Spiritual presence of the Risen Messiah be recognized especially among girls and women. And his compassionate presence among them means that he will be allowed to advocate on their behalf. As a direct result of his recognized presence, all people's welfare will definitely change for the better. So when that spiritual awareness is allowed to occur, a twelve year old Yemeni girl, such as Reem Al Numery, will not be immorally and physically forced against her will to marry her cousin. Additionally, a courageous Afghani woman such as Malalai Joya will not be facing such an up hill struggle for Muslim women and girls to have human rights in Afghanistan. Also, a courageous Hirsi Ali, who has experienced her own suffering in Islam and who became the author of Infidel, will not feel so overwhelmed by reality when she would pen the words, "The road to freedom is long and arduous and needs every hand." Why would Ms. Ali be more comforted? Because she would finally be assured that GOD's Risen Compassionate Messiah is now spiritually present among the girls and women of Islam. And she will know in her heart that GOD's Risen Messiah loves each of these persons, understands them and greatly values each girl and woman in Islam for being the precious, unique persons that they truly are.