Now, let us suppose that for various psychological, cultural and religious reasons, Muslims consistently miss the true intention of this complex and profound verse. Consequently, Muslims refuse to believe that ALLAH allowed His Messiah to experience even temporary death. In other words, because of not recognizing how strongly the Jews deserved to be ridiculed, regretfully Muslims count all the agony that Isa experienced as not having occurred. But also, their not recognizing the strong ridicule and their thinking that the statement about Isa not being killed is to be taken literally, the whole Islamic Community proclaims that the Jews were not guilty of carrying out the murder of ALLAH’s Messiah.

When Muslim’s disregard Isa’s agony and excuse the Jew’s of their guilt as the result of a misunderstanding, this cover up of the perpetrator’s horrible crime is still a terrible crime even if an unintended crime. Yes, their denial of his suffering and cover up of the horrible crime of the Jews are serious but forgivable crimes.

So now every Muslim throughout the world is faced with extremely serious decisions.

1.   Do you still conclude that despite all the foregoing explanation, that the Messiah did not experience agony on a cross due to Jewish rebellion against ALLAH?

2.   You must decide whether ALLAH’s Risen Messiah was killed or not killed, is only an irrelevant theological dispute and that ALLAH has no concern over whether his Messiah agonized or whether he defeated the plans of the Jews.

3.   Do you decide that ALLAH’s standards are so low that simply tricking the Jews into thinking they had crucified His Messiah satisfied His own low standards? Remember, changing a person’s appearance is only a trick that the Mossad, the CIA, and Hollywood can all easily do. But raising a person up from death is a profound miracle, which only ALLAH’s Wisdom and Might can accomplish.

4.   You must also decide if you truly want to continue to cover up for the dreadful guilt of certain Jews?

5.   You must decide if you are willing to stand up for the truth even if other Muslims may ridicule you?

6.   You must decide whether it is best for you to remain with the majority and claim that Isa did not agonize on a cross, even though you know that ALLAH knows that the Messiah sis agonize on a cross.

7.   You may wish to decide whether my writing is against ALLAH’s Will or whether He has possibly inspired me to bring these issues out into the open.

Now that you have read material on this website, you are no longer involved in a

subconscious conspiracy to absolve the Jews of their guilt. For you, the issues are now out in the open. So, do you actually wish to remain entangled in this cover up of the murder of ALLAH’s only Messiah? Or, do you choose to be free of this cover up?

“And every matter will be settled.”

    AL QAMAR (the moon) 54:3

At a broader level, respected Islamic intellectuals are faced with a moment of truth. Up to this point, it appears that the heavy pressure to conform to official Islamic Doctrine has prevented Islamic intellectuals from protecting the authenticity and integrity of history. This unwillingness to protect the authenticity of history causes a serious problem. For if the integrity and authenticity of an historical reality is sacrificed on the alter of religious accommodation to a questionable, superficial and shallow understanding of the intention of one verse in the Quran, authentic historical reality is rendered meaningless. This lack of commitment to historic credibility, regretfully sets off a chain reaction that even results in present reality losing its authenticity. Consequently, even present and near present events lose authenticity. They are in danger of becoming irrelevant, because once the decision has been made to alter an historical fact, it opens the door to have present facts altered, when the present soon becomes the past. This is an exceptionally dangerous precedent with enormously serious implications.

In our present considerations of Islamic leaders covering up the fact that Israeli leaders actually did manipulate the Romans to execute ALLAH’s Messiah, this changing of history works like this. Once it is denied that Israeli leadership actually carried out this atrocity, it sets a dangerous precedent which allows present and future Israeli leaders to be able to deny the realities of their present and near present atrocities. This will occur when time passes and near present atrocities become past atrocities.

For instance, if past Israeli leaders are excused because Muslims changed past history so that Israeli’s are not accountable for their unjust execution of ALLAH’s Messiah, a terrible reality faces us. The precedent has been set for today’s Israeli leaders not being held accountable to the court of public opinion for their more recent massacres and war crimes which occurred at Deir Yassin, Sabra, Shatilla, Jenin, Ramallah, etc. For if Israeli’s were excused in the past because Muslims manipulated historical reality why not allow them to be excused again when they themselves manipulate their own reality?

This altering of the reality of a real event must not be allowed to continue. But there exists no precedent to keep this from occurring if Israeli’s major crime of killing Jesus continues to be covered up by well meaning Islamic authorities. To continue to allow this real event to be altered only adds to the regrettable crime of Muslims for counting the agony and death of the Messiah as irrelevant by insisting that ALLAH’s Messiah was not crucified. This occurs even though a careful analysis of the verse in the Quran reveals that the verse does not truly teach that he was not killed. By altering the true intent of this verse, Islamic intellectuals have set the precedent to also allow all of the blood of the Palestinian martyrs to also become irrelevant. This will occur when Israeli distorters come up with various excuses to distort the historical reality of the atrocities, which took these martyrs lives.

Oh Islamic intellectuals, the world may not be watching your decision but the ALMIGHTY is paying very careful attention. The Israeli leaders of the past must not continue to be relieved of their accountability for murdering ALLAH’s Messiah. Also, those responsible for more recent atrocities should be held accountable. If truth is actually important, then all obstruction must be removed by Muslims, which prevents the Israeli leaders of the past from being declared guilty for their illegal and inhumane execution of ALLAH’s Messiah who is now ALLAH’s Risen Messiah.

Five Brief Replies to Five Brief Objections:

1.   There are those who may say that there is no evidence that there is any Islamic conspiracy to find the Jewish Leaders not guilty in regard to the Messiah’s death.

My reply is that every Arabic Quran or other language transliterations of the

Quran, which have footnotes, carry clear evidence of the conspiracy. Almost every footnote to An-Nisa 4:157 in some way, say that shubihalahum means that someone who appeared to be Isa was crucified instead of him and that the Messiah definitely did not die.

I am not suggesting that there has been any change to the Quran, but that there has been a subconscious conspiracy through footnotes, commentaries, preaching and teaching to lock all Muslims into believing that certain Israeli leaders were innocent of the murder of the innocent Messiah. This sad reality of the manipulation of historical fact has been accomplished through this pervasive indoctrination, through teaching, preaching, footnotes, literature, etc. Thus, it is pervasive throughout Muslim society that all Muslims must believe that Isa was never killed. So each Muslim has been conditioned to say that it is obvious from the Quran that the Israelis never succeeded in killing the Messiah.

However, everyone knows that there is a huge difference between Israelis being involved in a conspiracy to commit murder, and Israelis actually committing a murder. Consequently, sincere Muslims in Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Lebanon, where there are larger publishing houses for Qurans, should soon insist on the following: That in all new Qurans to be published, an addition must be added to the footnotes that there is a strong possibility that An-Nisa 4:157 means that it only appeared to the Jews that they had succeeded in permanently ending Isa’s life. Nevertheless, they had not been successful because after the Messiah had died, the Almighty ALLAH raised him up alive.

Of course, no Quran with the wrong footnotes should be destroyed. They must all remain to always remind Muslims of the serious consequences of not thinking in depth about what a verse truly means.

2.   There will be those who say that shubihalahum must be understood that someone else with the Messiah’s appearance was on the cross instead of the Messiah.

My reply is that there is no rule that shubihalahum must be understood in this way. Rather, conditioning and indoctrination, which are close to brainwashing, have made Muslims believe that this is the only way to understand the meaning of shubihalahum.

3.   There will be Muslims who will insist that the reason that the MERCIFUL did not allow His Messiah to die at the hands of certain sinful Israeli leaders is that He would not allow someone so obedient to die by the political manipulations of those who were so disobedient.

My reply is that though this explanation sounds very reasonable, it is faulty logic.

The Quran makes clear that many other prophets had the honor of dying at the hands of Israelis while these Prophets were serving ALLAH. Also, contemporary circumstances are causing the deaths of many very innocent Palestinians. To suggest that ALLAH did a cheap magic trick in order to rescue His Messiah when he did not rescue other prophets and contemporary martyrs, makes the Messiah Isa less worthy, not worthier.

4.   There will be those who say that all of this persuasion is with the purpose of having Muslims become Christians.

My reply is that not once have I ever made that suggestion in any of my writing.

Rather, my intention is to provide the information so that ALLAH will help Muslims to see that the evil plans of Israeli leaders actually did temporarily appear to win. Thus, to deny that the Messiah was murdered and did die is to dishonor both ALLAH and His Messiah. But all Muslims must realize that the Israelis only temporarily even had the appearance of winning because it is ALLAH’s Will that all injustice will be ultimately defeated. Thus, evil was defeated in Isa’s case by his glorious resurrection.

5.   There will be many that will have many other objections to whether the Israelis temporarily took the life of ALLAH’s Messiah and they will continue to insist that he safely escaped to ALLAH’s presence.

My reply is that Muslims are quite unwise to allow their often-justified disdain for

certain Christians to cause them to reject the victory of the Messiah over both certain Israelis and death itself. In fact, no matter what the objection is to the reality that Isa courageously defeated death instead of escaping death, there exists a reasonable explanation. The reality that certain Israeli leaders manipulated the Messiah’s murder is a fact of history, whether some influential Muslims reject it or not.

In summary, it is a fact that both the Quran and the Injeel, when understood correctly, teach that though the Messiah was killed, he defeated death when ALLAH raised him up. Despite this fact, most Muslims continue to believe that certain Israeli leaders are innocent of this historic murder. However, when multitudes of Muslims finally realize that Jewish leaders were guilty of that horrible crime, one relevant fact must be remembered. Of all the Jews who have ever lived, it is only a tiny, tiny fraction of one one-hundredth of one percent who were guilty of the Messiah’s murder. Therefore, there must not be the holding of any contemporary Jew responsible for the crimes of a few of their forefathers. It is a sad reality that a few current Israeli leaders, such as Ariel Sharon, have committed more than enough crimes that they do not need to have any association with the crimes of the past in order to be considered very guilty.

But even regarding the crimes of certain Jewish leaders of the present and more recent past, the objective must be peace and not retribution. So the Messiah’s words spoken while his slow, agonizing murder was occurring must be the ideal example for us all.

“Father forgive them for they don’t know what they are doing.”

This example must remain with us even though so many are so painfully aware that today’s Israeli leaders know full well what they are doing, but choose to continue in their gross injustice. Also, the current injustice by too many Israeli leaders is all the more discouraging, depressing and perplexing since the most powerful nation on earth politically supports their injustice, morally supports their injustice and logistically supports their injustice. To further add to the confusion, pain and disillusionment of all Muslims and many others, the U.S. proudly proclaims throughout the whole earth that our nation is Christian.

So it is fair to ask: Do ALLAH and His Risen Messiah approve of the way that prominent persons who claim to be “good Christians,” attempt to associate the Risen Christ with their support of further oppressing the exploited and suppressed Palestinians? My answer is that both ALLAH and His Risen Messiah view this exploitation of an oppressed people in the name of furthering the cause of Christ, as blasphemy against God and against Humanity.

Nevertheless, all Arabs can find hope and encouragement in this reality. Never in all of history has there been anyone who more fully understands what it means to be cruelly betrayed by a powerful and calloused religious establishment than the compassionate Risen Messiah Isa.

Does ALLAH fully trust His Risen Messiah? Both the Holy Quran and the Injeel teach that he does. Therefore, can each of us put our full trust in Him? Yes! In ALLAH’s Risen Messiah, we can each place our full trust.

May ALLAH abundantly bless each of you and your families whether you do or do not respond to my thoughts.

With Love and Respect,

Abu Toma/ Tom Griffith