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The Holy Quran’s Two Parallel
Verses about Two Great Prophets
An In Depth Comparison Reveals Deep Differences
"And peace be
on him the day he was born, on the day he dies, and the day he will be raised
up to life." (Maryam 19:15 about Yahya, John the Baptist)
"And peace be upon me the
day I was born, and the day I die and the day I shall be raised up alive.”
(Maryam 19:33 about Ibn Maryam-son of Mary)
Appropriately, the first of the three parallels in these two parallel
verses is about each of these Prophet’s births. Both the mother of Yahya and the mother of Isa experienced miraculous
conceptions, which introduced their sons into life in this world. Though Ibn
Maryam, being miraculously born to a virgin, The Virgin Maryam, had the most
miraculous birth, Yahya’s birth was indeed miraculous also. His mother was well beyond the normal age of
being able to become pregnant when she became pregnant with her only child,
Yahya. So ALLAH’S Spiritual peace was upon the birth of both of these two great
men since they both were conceived through ALLAH’S special assistance. Thus, it
is obvious that the two respective verses about these two dedicated prophets
are intended to portray parallel realities regarding each of their amazing
births.
Though it will be controversial among Muslims to say so, it is no less
obvious that both verses are intended to convey parallel realities regarding
theses two young men’s tragic and premature deaths. The unchanged Injeel which the Qur’an
confirms as being true, (see Yunis 10:94) emphatically teaches that Prophet
Yahya and Prophet Isa each experienced violent, unjust executions at the hands
of corrupt, unscrupulous Jewish leaders. Each of the leaders involved in their deaths made a conscious choice to
misuse his political and religious authority in order to execute Prophets of
ALLAH whom these leaders knew to be innocent. It is also an interesting parallel that both men were unjustly executed
at approximately the same young age, thirty-three.
Yahya’s death came suddenly and unexpectedly according to the
Injeel. The sinister King Herod ordered
his soldiers to suddenly cut off Yahya’s head and present it as a bloody reward
to the daughter of the King’s lover. The
beautiful girl had pleased the lustful King by the sensual way she had danced
at the King’s banquet. Yahya’s head was
the reward her evil mother urged her to request for the pleasure her dancing
brought to the immoral King. During the
banquet while the guests were still there, his head was cruelly cut off and
presented on a bloody tray to the dancer as her bloody gift.
Ibn Maryam’s death was also a well-established historical event just as
Yahya's death was well established in history. Rebellious Jewish religious leaders manipulated the Roman Governor
Pilate to use his authority from Rome to order the execution of ALLAH'S
innocent Messiah. According to the
Injeel, after careful questioning of Isa, Governor Pilate found him to be
totally innocent. Nevertheless, vengeful
religious leaders threatened to complain about the Roman governor to his
superior, the Mighty Roman Caesar, for allowing the Messiah to potentially
threaten Caesar's own authority by claiming to be a King.
As the two parallels verses state, Yahya and Isa each experienced ALLAH'S
spiritual peace at their deaths even though they both endured terrifying,
violent executions at the hands of cruel, corrupt Jewish leaders.
It is openly acknowledged that the verse about Yahya refers to his death,
which has already occurred. To accept
the certainly that Yahya’s death has already occurred and then to arbitrarily
shift the time of Isa’a death in a parallel and almost identical verse, to an
unknown future time is illogical, unreasonable and not pleasing to ALLAH. To irresponsibly deny the historical reality
of Isa’s death and to shift his death to an unknown time in an unknown future
is unworthy of any reasonable Muslim who is capable of reading the Arabic in
the Qur’an of these two parallel verses.
These two almost identical verses reveal that both the births and deaths
of each of these two great prophets were obviously intended to be understood as
parallels to each other. Both men had
ALLAH’S spiritual peace and blessing on them when their births occurred and
both of these men had ALLAH’S spiritual peace upon them when their deaths
occurred within one or two years of each other. Indeed, the birth and death of each of them, according to these parallel
verses, had already occurred when the Qur’an was first recorded.
Now we shall observe the third potential parallel of the two verses about
these two great men, their resurrections. It is logical that since we have considered both their births and deaths
as having occurred in the same general time period, that we will also discover
that third set of parallel phrases will describe a parallel time period for
each of their resurrections. Of course
there will be a parallel time period for each of these resurrections provided
that there are not compelling reasons for there not
to be parallel time periods for their respective resurrections.
In other words, the phrase, “he will be raised up to life” about
Yahya and the phrase, “I shall be raised alive” concerning Isa, will
both either describe resurrections, which had already occurred when the Qur’an
was recorded, or which both will occur at a future time. But this parallel period of time for each of
the two men’s resurrections only holds true in the absence of reasonable
reasons which indicate that their resurrections would be in very different time
periods.
It must be emphasized that this similar time for each of their
resurrections is only required if there is not a good
reason to make “the consistency test” inappropriate for their
resurrections since consistency was appropriate for both their births and their
deaths. Significantly, there is not just
one reason to be convinced that their resurrections would occur at very
different times but that there are five compelling reasons
to believe that Prophet Isa’s resurrection has already occurred while Prophet
Yahya’s resurrection is still in the future. These five reasons clearly demonstrate that being raised to life
for Yahya and being raised alive for Isa refer to totally different time
periods when each resurrection would occur.
In the verse about Yahya, there is every reason to believe that when his
resurrection is spoken of, that it is referring to the final resurrection on
the Last Day which all persons will experience whom ALLAH considers to be
righteous. So that is when we can fully
expect Prophet Yahya to be raised alive.
Regarding the two verses which speak about Prophet Isa, we will now
explore five compelling reasons that Isa’s resurrection is not the same final
resurrection being referred to in the verse about Yahya’s resurrection.
First Compelling Reason that Yahya and
Isa’a Resurrections would be in Two Very Different Periods of Time
1. Immediately following
the verse telling of Isa’a birth, death and resurrection there is another verse
which gives a strong qualifying proclamation about the entire statement
regarding Isa’s birth, death and resurrection. That next verse emphatically tells us that there would be some who would
doubt that the statement is totally true. The very next verse after the statement about Isa’s birth, death and
resurrection emphatically states:
“Such is Isa, Ibn Maryam, a statement
of truth concerning which they doubt (or dispute).”
Significantly, there is no statement about doubt or
dispute following the parallel verse about Yahya's birth, death or resurrection
because there was absolutely no doubt about the birth, death or future
resurrection of Yahya.
Regarding Ibn Maryam, until after Islam began being proclaimed, there was
no doubt or dispute about either his birth or his death. But there has always been considerable doubt
and dispute regarding the Messiah's resurrection.
In recent centuries and even in the Prophet
Muhammad's time in the Jewish community there were many who challenged the
virgin birth of Ibn Maryam. Nevertheless, in his time there was not wide spread challenge of his
virgin birth. Though there may have been
rumors in the small town of Nazareth when Maryam first became pregnant, about
whether Yusef was truly his father, there is no indication in the Injeel that
questions about his birth remained a focus of concern. This was probably mainly due to very few
people knowing about Maryam being a virgin when her baby was born since Maryam
and Yusef had left their hometown area by the time of his birth which occurred
in the West Bank town of Bethlehem. Also,
all indications are that the secret of the conception brought about by ALLAH’S
Spirit remained within the very small family circle of only a few close
relatives. It was after the Messiah’s
public ministry among many people and after his public execution and after his
appearance alive to those who believed in him, that an interest began to grow
about the details of his conception.
Thus, the larger community had no wide spread doubts or disputes about
Isa’s birth until after the Scriptures were written and began to receive a
broad circulation. In reality, the early
unbelieving Jewish community was not even aware of the miraculous details of
his birth because they had no interest in the details of a man whom they did
not care to know about. Even when those
details were first recorded in the Injeel, it was not until later that the
larger, unbelieving Jewish community had any interest in reading the
Injeel. However, by the time the Qur’an
was recorded, apparently there were those in the Jewish community who came to
have doubts about the credibility of Isa’s birth to a virgin young woman who
had had no sexual relationship with a man.
We are only aware of this probable challenge of the virgin birth by the Jewish
community at the time of the Qur’an because of one concise statement in
AnNisa about malicious things being said about Ibn Maryam’s own virgin
mother. Sadly, the Qur’an appears forced
by unpleasant circumstances to rebuke those in the Jewish community who were
cruelly saying that neither Yusef nor ALLAH’S Holy Spirit caused Isa’s
conception. The implication in the Qur’an is that there were those in that
community who were saying that Maryam was an immoral woman who had
sexual relations with an unknown man or men or a boy or boys which had resulted
in her becoming pregnant with Isa. Using
the more crude term that some use for describing a child that is born in this
kind of situation, in reality they were saying that the chosen Virgin Maryam
actually gave birth to a “bastard” child. But even though there was apparently that kind of talk at the time that
the Qur’an was recorded, at the time of the birth of baby Isa, there appeared
to be no controversy. Possibly, part of
the reason for a lack of controversy is because ALLAH arranged for the birth to
occur in the West Bank City of Bethlehem which was considered far from Nazareth
before the time of cars and highways. Thankfully there were also no phones or cell phones then. So there was no one in Bethlehem who had any
reason to count the days from Maryam’s marriage to Yusef until the day the baby
was born to make certain that she was officially married before she became
pregnant.
In wonderful contrast to the negativity of false rumors, so great was the
heavenly celebration of Isa’s birth in Bethlehem that ALLAH arranged for
a heavenly choir of His Angels to enthusiastically announce to humble shepherds
that the baby Jesus/Isa had been born in a manger. Mangers were places where friendly farm animals
were kept such as goats, cows, and chickens. But there would be no self-righteous people there who would critique his
birth or question if Yusef were truly the father. There were, however, some amazed and friendly
simple shepherds who came to visit the new baby on the unusual recommendation
of a heavenly choir of real angels. Thus, as the verse in the Qur’an concisely states, he was born with
peace on him.
Regarding Isa’s death, in his time there was absolutely no dispute about
his death. His public execution was an
event viewed by many, which included his own mother Maryam and others close to
both her and Isa. The Roman governor
Pilate was so aware that Isa had indeed been executed that he chose to yield to
pressure from influential but worried Jewish leaders. They were concerned that his disciples would
steal Isa’s body and claim that he had risen from the dead. To satisfy these leaders and to get rid of
them, Pilate agreed to station official Roman guards at his tomb to guarantee
to the Jewish leaders that his body had absolutely no chance of being
stolen. No, at the time of Ibn Maryam
there was absolutely no doubt or dispute about whether he had been killed by
crucification because the Roman’s had his deceased body in their possession and
would carefully guard the tomb where his body was placed.
Since persons being crucified yield to the natural instinct to struggle
to stay alive for as long as possible, the victims would force themselves to
push their bodies as high as possible against the nails holding their feet and
ankles each time they took a breath. This enables their lungs to take in enough air to keep themselves
alive. Due to the awkward body position
of a person nailed to a cross, it was much more difficult to breathe than if
the person were standing on the ground. Therefore, when the soldiers were tired of guarding the slowly dying
person or thought that the victim had suffered long enough, they would break
their legs by hitting them with a blunt instrument. With both of their legs broken, they were
prevented from any longer pushing up on their legs against the nails to
breathe. So, after their legs were
broken, they would soon die of suffocation.
However, when the soldiers were ready to break the legs of Ibn Maryam,
they observed that he was already dead. Death had undoubtedly come earlier for him because of the night of
torture he had endured before his crucification. Though he had been a strong carpenter, his
weakened condition had prevented him from even carrying his own cross to the
place of crucification so the Romans ordered a strong African person who was
watching him struggle, to carry his cross for him.
Since they knew that Isa was already dead they decided to do something
easier than breaking his legs. One guard
thrust a spear deep into his side. From
this wound the Injeel tells us that the guard observed a combination of blood
and water pouring out of his body. This
one severe wound alone would have been enough to kill him if he had not already
died.
Amazingly, the soldier’s decision to pierce his side rather than to break
his bones, caused two ancient predictions to be fulfilled about the death of
the Messiah which are both recorded in the ancient Jewish Scriptures. One prediction by King Daoud (David) said that
“not a bone of his will be broken.” The other prediction by he Prophet Isaiah,
predicted that, “they will gaze on him whom they have pierced.”
As for the idea that a look alike experienced the crucification
instead of Ibn Maryam, two statements he made from the cross, one directly to
his mother Maryam, and one to his beloved disciple John, make it quite certain
that it was indeed Isa (Jesus) who they were watching slowly die on that cruel
Roman cross. The Injeel tell us that his
mother, Maryam, his mother’s sister (Isa’s aunt), and Mary whom he had once
healed, in addition to his beloved disciple, John, all stayed near him during
his prolonged agony.
Most certainly each one of them would have recognized an imposter or substitute
as not being Ibn Maryam, as they closely observed each sign of pain he was
experiencing. Several times they heard
him speak, hearing the same voice they had loved to listen to in the past.
It was indeed Isa who died in agony upon that cruel cross. There was absolutely no doubt or dispute by anyone about whether he
had died there.
Additionally, a wealthy secret follower of Isa
requested and received Governor Pilate’s permission to remove his body from the
cross and prepare it for burial in his own private tomb. This man, who was a Jewish leader along with
another Jewish official named Nicodemus, to whom the Prophet had once explained
the mysteries of experiencing a second birth, together they lovingly prepared
their Messiah’s body for burial. The two
men tenderly wrapped it in over thirty kilos of spices which required
considerable handling of his body and close attention to the details of what
they were doing with his body. They
both would have instantly recognized the fact that it was not Isa’s body if
indeed it was not him who they thoroughly and lovingly prepared for burial.
No! It was neither a statement about Ibn Maryam’s
birth nor was it a statement about his death, which was mainly doubted in the
weeks, month and years which followed his crucification. Before the time of The Qur’an there can be no
serious disagreement that it was definitely the Messiah’s resurrection which
was consistently in dispute from the time that he was first raised alive from
his tomb.
Compelling Reason Two that Prophet Isa already had
Risen When the Qur’an was First Revealed While Prophet Yahya Even Now Awaits
his Resurrection
2. The Injeel which the Qur’an recognizes
as unchanged and authoritative and as confirming the Scriptures preceding it,
(See Yunis 10:94), has many verses and even many pages speaking of Isa/Jesus
being raised to new life three days after his agonizing death. In fact, the unchanged Injeel on several
occasions records Jesus himself predicting his betrayal to the Jewish religious
establishment, his rejection by them, his being put to death by the Gentiles
(The Romans) and then after three days, rising from death. (For instance, in three consecutive
chapters of Mark’s Injeel, 8:31, 9:33 and 10:34, Jesus predicts his death but
also tells his followers that he would be raised from death three days later.)
When ALLAH’S Messiah did reveal himself alive after
three days of death, he did not reveal himself to those who previously refused
to believe in him. Instead, he only revealed himself to those who had embraced
the belief that he had been sent from ALLAH. So there has always been those who doubted his being raised alive even
though he had previously predicted that it would occur three days after his
death.
There is a significant account concerning Ibn
Maraym’s resurrection which can be viewed as both pathetic and humorous in the
way that it exposes the ridiculous lies that Jewish leaders told and the
bribes they paid in their vain attempt to cover up their own Messiah’s
resurrection. In their hysterical
response to discovering that the one whose life they thought they had forever
ended had risen from the dead, they made absolute fools of themselves. In their foolish attempt to cover-up their
total failure to have permanently ended the Prophet’s life, they bribed the
Roman soldier who had been guarding his tomb to assist them in their frantic
cover-up of his resurrection. In a
futile attempt to cover up the reality of his amazing event, the confused, humiliated
Jewish leaders paid the Roman guards to say:
“His disciples came and stole him away while we
were asleep.” (Mat. 28:13)
That their contrived cover story was a lie was
obvious.
First of all, Roman soldiers had an excellent
reputation for being exceptionally disciplined. These disciplined soldiers did not dare sleep while on important duty
because they would be put to death by execution if a superior found out that
they had slept on duty. However, the
frantic Jewish leaders promised the bribed soldiers that they would solve this
problem of their severe punishment for acknowledging having slept on duty. They would either bride or somehow manipulate
Governor Pilate so that the lying and supposedly sleeping guards would not be
punished.
There was a second major problem with their
cover-up story. If the soldiers were
deeply sleeping as they claimed that they were, how could they have known what
occurred while they were sleeping. Also,
since they were so soundly sleeping, how could they possibly claim to know who
it was who supposedly stole the body of Jesus?
(This
ridiculous cover-up story arranged by unscrupulous forefathers of present day
Zionists has definite similarities with a quite recent cover-up story invented
by the AmerIsraeli spin machine as presented on international CNN and in
various news reports. That shameless
Israeli lie machine made a futile and brazen attempt to cover-up the July 23,
02 Israeli murders of fourteen or sixteen Palestinian women and children in
Gaza. This occurred during their tragic
but successful attempt to murder one Palestinian leader who was on Israel’s
most wanted list.)
These shameless spin-doctors tried to suggest that
an American made F16, firing an American made one-ton missile into a crowded
Gaza civilian apartment complex was a regrettable Israeli intelligence
mistake. They brazenly claimed that
their intelligence apparatus did not realize that many women and children would
be sleeping in the crowded civilian apartment building. This was an obvious fabrication since their
very efficient intelligence agency, Mossad, knew everything about that civilian
apartment complex.
So unabashed fabricated lies told against ALLAH’S
raising His Messiah alive from a sealed tomb almost two thousand years ago are
similar to brazen fabricated lies which today attempt to cover-up the gross
violation of ALLAH’S standards of morality and decency in murdering fourteen or
more sleeping women and children when Israel brutally targeted a civilian
apartment in a crowded Palestinian apartment complex two thousand years later. There seems to be certain practices which do not change with time. Certain Israelis manipulated the Romans then
and certain Israelis manipulate us Americans now.
Third Compelling Reason That Prophet Isa/Jesus has Already
Risen While Prophet Yahya has not Yet Risen
3. At the time the Qur’an was recorded, there were many
followers of Isa/Jesus whose beliefs Muslims were quite familiar with, who were
totally convinced that the Messiah had both died and risen. Even so, the Qur’an does not have one
verse speaking against the resurrection, the event these Christians
spoke of so openly and so joyously. These Muslims were also quite aware that Christians strongly believed
that ALLAH had prevented the Jews from accomplishing their intended goal of forever
ending the Messiah’s life. Therefore,
many if not most Muslims were quite aware that Christians believed that ALLAH
had empowered his Messiah to defeat not only the evil plans of certain Jews but
also to even defeat death. Many Muslims
were also well aware that the reason Christians believed that the Messiah had
defeated death was because of their unshakable conviction that on the third day
after his crucification, ALLAH, through His Wisdom had raised Ibn Maryam to
new life. They also knew that
Christians believed that ALLAH’S Might had to be involved in order to raise
him up alive from a sealed tomb guarded by elite soldiers from the Roman
occupation forces. So they knew that
these Christians were all convinced that the Messiah’s glorious resurrection
actually cancelled everything that the Jews were so certain that they had
accomplished through his crucification.
It is of overwhelming significance that even though
all of these facts were well known to many Muslims and that the Prophet
Muhammad was quite aware of each fact, there is not one verse in the
entire Qur’an which speaks against this well known triumphant resurrection
in which Christians so enthusiastically believed. Rather, in great contrast
to the Glorious Qur’an’s total silence about objecting to Ibn Maryam’s
resurrection, there is evidence that the Qur’an actually celebrates his
resurrection. Maryam 19:33, 34 declares that his resurrection would be a truth
about which the Jews would doubt or dispute. Furthermore, there is the open declaration in AnNisa 4:157 which even
more emphatically and joyously declares his triumphant resurrection.
“ALLAH
raised him up unto Himself”
(It must in no way detract from the glorious truth
of this emphatic statement of ALLAH’S Messiah being victoriously raised up
alive, the fact that there is one minor complication which ALLAH will empower
us to solve. This solvable problem is
that one billion two hundred million Muslims have sincerely but incorrectly
been taught that this verse teaches that ALLAH’S Messiah was raised up before
his death and that ALLAH manipulated a substitute to be crucified instead of
His Messiah being crucified. (Many Muslims apparently think that the
Messiah could not have endured such severe suffering.) If ALLAH Wills, in the
following paragraphs He will help us solve the common misconception that there
was a substitute on the cross.
Fourth Compelling Reason that there are Two very different
time Periods for the Two Different Resurrections
4. Only one verse out of all the verses in the Qur’an
appears to imply that ALLAH’S Messiah did not die. However, when that one verse is closely
inspected in the context of the verses immediately before it and the one verse
after it, we will see that the controversial verse does reveal that the Messiah
did actually die. But, after three depressing days for his followers, ALLAH
used His Might to raise him up alive.
Thus, the idea that the Qur’an teaches that the
death of the Prophet Yahya has already occurred while the death of the Prophet
Isa will occur some time in the unknown future is not what the Qur’an
actually teaches. The relevant evidence
will reveal to us that Ibn Maryam had definitely already died when the Qur’an
was recorded and that he had also had already triumph over death by being raised
up alive. We previously have observed
that it is illogical to shift the time of his death to a later time
period when the two virtually identical phrases in the two verses both give the
impression that both Prophets have already died. Consequently, if we assume that the Qur’an
does not contradict itself, there remains a simple problem for us to solve.
We will uncover the very compelling reason why
one verse out of the hundreds of verses in the entire Qur’an, contains
statements saying The Messiah was neither killed nor crucified. This is a problem we are compelled to solve
and with ALLAH’S help we will solve it because both historical reality and the
previous Scriptures make it clear that he was indeed crucified. (Even other verses in the Qur’an itself
strongly imply that Isa already experienced death such as Al-Imran 3:55)
With an open mind we will be empowered by ALLAH to
answer the perplexing question of why Muslims insist on doubting the
truth of their own Quran’s statement expressed in Maryam 19:34 that they would
either doubt the truth of the birth of Prophet Isa, doubt the truth of his
death or doubt the truth of his resurrection.
“…a statement of truth concerning which they doubt
(or dispute).”
To understand how Muslims unintentionally demonstrate
their doubt of the truth of this statement about doubting truth, which the
Qur’an itself warns Muslims to not doubt, we will need to review some
background from both the earlier scriptures and the Qur’an. This background includes an enumeration of specific
crimes, which the Qur’an views as having been committed by the Jews against
ALLAH, against the young virgin who ALLAH specifically chose to be the mother
of His Messiah, and against The Messiah himself. These crimes are each listed consecutively in
the Qur’an in the verses immediately proceeding the verse about the Jews
brazenly boasting about murdering ALLAH’S Messiah and before the statements
about the Ibn Maryam not being killed or crucified.)
The malicious comment about Maryam in this series of
crimes reveals how certain Jews allowed their mouths to become human toilets
when they made filthy charges against the one woman out of all Jewish women
ALLAH specifically chose to be the mother of His Chosen Messiah. So we will
compare their comments to similar comments made by Israeli torturers
today. The malicious comments made
against Maryam are only spoken of briefly in the Qur’an with the words:
"uttering
against Maryam a grave false charge."
The word grave is a very solemn word
in the English language. So the Qur'an leaves us with the impression that the
false charge against Maryam could not have been more solemn or serious. I confess that I have wondered in the past if
the Qur'an was exaggerating in making this statement because my mind had difficulty
accepting the idea that sincere Jews could or would speak against pure
motherhood in this way. However,
when I was taking a flight recently from Washington D. C. to Seattle while
returning from Amman Jordan, the person in the next seat loaned me the no
longer available Time Magazine of August 19, 02. Reading a shocking article in this magazine removed
all doubt from my mind about certain Jews being able to blaspheme pure
motherhood.
The article described the practice by Israeli
occupation soldiers of torturing Palestinian prisoners until they are
willing to actually curse the personal, private genitalia of Palestinian
mothers which of course included the victim’s own mothers, their own
grandmothers, their own aunts and their own married sisters, Obviously, when
the men cursed the genitalia of Palestinian mothers in order to stop the
torture, it was not the Palestinians who were truly speaking but it was
the Israel torturers who were in reality saying the despicable words. Consequently, I have no longer had any doubt
about the filth that the Qur’an implies in its short statement about the grave
charge against Maryam. The concise
statement in the Qur’an in the verse immediately before the verse about the
Messiah not being crucified strongly implies that certain Jewish persons of the
Prophet’s time would get down into a sewer containing stinking human waste and
swim around. This was what they were
figuratively doing by making a filthy false charge against a pure young
virgin especially chosen by ALLAH to be the pure vessel to bring His infant
Messiah into the world.
The Time article emphasizes how Israeli soldiers
torture Palestinian prisoners until they are willing to curse the genitalia of
their own mothers in order to stop the cruel beatings. The exact words of the
curse were contained in an obscene rhyme the tortured Palestinian prisoners
were forced to recite out loud while the soldiers laughed and mocked them. They also forced them by beatings to express
their love for the very soldiers who are murdering their families, who are
murdering their relatives, and who are murdering their friends. In light of these degrading inhuman practice
by supposedly civilized and educated present day official representatives of
the Israeli government, we can only imagine the vile words which the Qur’an is
implying came out of the filthy mouths of certain Jews about the pure virgin
who ALLAH chose to be the mother of His anointed Prophet.
This was centuries after certain leaders in Israel
had committed a horrible crime against ALLAH by murdering his own Messiah. As a direct consequence of the enormity of
this shocking crime of the murder of ALLAH’S Anointed, combined with
all the other appalling crimes the Qur’an specifically lists such as breaking
treaties and killing Prophets, in addition to the filthy lies they
were fabricating against the pure young woman ALLAH chose to be the Messiah’s
virgin mother, the Qur’an must slow down this run away freight train of filth
about a virgin mother and evil boasting about murdering her son. Their mouths were truly imitating septic
tanks in the way they were arrogantly blaspheming ALLAH through virtually
cursing the chosen mother of His Messiah and then shamelessly boasting about
murdering her son who was ALLAH’S chosen Messiah.
So the Qur’an takes an unconventional step in
order to shut their filthy mouths and stop the feces which they were
purposefully spewing. In light of all
this crime and foulness and in view of the total intent of the Jewish leaders
to end his life forever, the Qur’an skillfully and powerfully slaps
all of the boasting Jews in their collective faces. The Qur’an ridicules and humiliates them by shouting
into their ears that they are nothing but absolute, unconditional,
miserable failures. In their goal
of ending the Messiah’s life forever, they could not have failed more
miserably.
From the Quran’s enlightened perspective, no one
in human history had been involved in more mistaken conjecture. They had
neither killed nor crucified ALLAH’S Messiah. Instead of ending his life forever and
forever, by immorally murdering ALLAH’S very own Messiah, they had been able to
end his life for only three days. During that most significant third day, ALLAH
quietly but magnificently raised His Anointed Messiah from death to life as
together the Qur’an and the Injeel so emphatically reveal. ALLAH, through His Might empowered Ibn
Maryam, His faithful Messiah to remove the grave clothes wrapped around him and
to triumphantly but quietly walk out of a sealed tomb, alive.
Therefore, from the clear concept of what kill or
crucify are intended to mean, it is totally within the right of ALLAH to
have the Qur’an emphatically proclaim that His own Messiah had neither been
killed nor crucified. By stating it this way, the Qur’an skillfully but subtly mocks the Jews
for being utter, corrupt failures. The
only thing they were successful in was failing. They had been totally unable to accomplish
their evil goal of ending their Messiah’s life forever. For the Jews to claim that they had killed or
crucified Ibn Maryam was only miserable misinformed, wishful conjecture on
their part because they had only ended his life for three days. Therefore, the Qur’an emphatically forces
the Jews to face the undebatable fact that at their very best, these leaders
were miserable failures in accomplishing what they intended to accomplish.
Because Muslims have unintentionally
misunderstood the true intent of these exceptionally powerful statements in the
Qur’an, regretfully Muslims have lived in the very doubt, which The Qur’an
knowingly predicted. For a variety
of reasons Muslims have chosen to ignore the Qur’an’s clear warning that the
statement about Isa dying and being raised to life would be a truth about which
they and others (the others being especially Jews) would doubt. Regretfully, through Muslims choosing to
doubt, they have unintentionally strengthened and reinforced the Jewish
cover-up that the disciples stole his body and that Isa did not rise from death.
For if ALLAH, through his Own Wisdom and Might did
not defeat death, and did not defeat the Jews and did
not defeat the forces of the occupation army of the greatest political,
economic, and military empire which had ever existed, whose soldiers were
guarding a sealed tomb, and did not also defeat a sealed tomb, ALLAH”S
Might and Wisdom were wasted. To be magically
and secretly swept away to heaven alive, is a much weaker
resurrection than defeating death, defeating Jews, defeating the occupation
forces of the great Roman Empire and defeating a sealed tomb. Instead of ALLAH defeating all of these
hostile forces, Muslims have settled for ALLAH manipulating gravity in order to
help Ibn Maryam escape and also manipulating the vision and minds of the
observers who were tricked into thinking a mere substitute was actually ALLAH’S
courageous but compassionate Messiah. So
Islam’s present resurrection of Ibn Maryam skipping death, is not an authentic
resurrection, and it is very close to what the Jews have been saying all
along; that there was no resurrection.
So, previous to the Qur’an it was especially Jews
who doubted Isa’s resurrection. But
after the Qur’an, due to Muslim’s serious misunderstanding of the true
intension of only one verse out of the entire Qur’an, they have chosen to doubt
ALLAH’S own Messiah’s very significant and triumphant death. Because of this one verse’s purposeful and
strong ridicule of the total failure of the Jews to accomplish their purpose of
permanently ending the Messiah’s life, Muslims have ignored this intent of the
Qur’an and have doubted and disputed the purpose of the most important death
to even occur in the history of man. Significantly, because of Muslims denying the
truth of that death, they have also denied the truth of the most glorious
miracle to ever occur, ALLAH majestically raising his Messiah to life three
days after he had died.
The Fifth and Final Reason It Must be Concluded That
ALLAH has Already Raised to Life His Triumphant Messiah
5. As previously mentioned, when Muslims deny the emphatic
teaching of the Qur’an, that by ALLAH’S Glorious Might and Immeasurable
Wisdom, he raised Ibn Maryam up alive after his three day death, they
cancel a totally wonderful and amazing miracle while unintentionally
reducing the Majesty of ALLAH. Consequently, instead of rejoicing in the Anointed’s glorious
resurrection, Muslims choose to substitute a superficial theory invented by men
which reduces the ALMIGHTY ALLAH to a much lower level than He deserves. They unwisely attempt to lower the very
ALMIGHTY ALLAH to the low level of the deceptive Mossad or to the low level of
the omnipresent CIA or even to the low level of partially immoral Hollywood. For each of these partially corrupt entities
is capable of making one man appear to be another man, the very thing that
Muslims proclaim that ALLAH used His Might and Wisdom to accomplish.
In wonderful contrast
to the very, very limited power of these man made groups, only the Glorious
Wisdom and Unlimited Might of Almighty ALLAH could raise up to new life the
Prophet of ALLAH who the rebellious forefathers of the present Zionists so
maliciously and viciously murdered. To manipulate or to coerce other Muslims to believe that the Almighty
ALLAH lowered himself in order to deceptively misuse his Majestic Wisdom and
Incomprehensable Might to perform amature magic is a serious crime against the
ALMIGHTY. To teach others that ALLAH
would lower Himself to magically make another person appear to be His Messiah
is to needlessly add to the tragedy of the Anointed’s suffering death. It also unintentionally detracts from the
Majesty of ALLAH Himself which He magnificently displayed when He gloriously
raised his only Messiah up alive.
Conclusion
Some Muslims may insist
that it has absolutely no relevance to them whether ALLAH’S Messiah defeated
death and the plans of the Jews and even the Mighty Roman Empire or whether he
did not defeat death, did not defeat evil Jewish plans and did not have a victory
over the world’s greatest empire. They
also may think that it does not concern them whether the Messiah deceived
everyone and secretly escaped into the safe presence of ALLAH or whether he did
not deceptively escape.
Nevertheless, on the final
day these Muslims must answer to the ALMIGHTY. They will be forced to explain to Him why they consider it to be
irrelevant whether He only enabled His Messiah to deceptively escape or if He
empowered him with new life so that he would triumph over evil Jewish plans;
and defeat both death and an arrogant empire. So they must decide whether they believe that ALLAH’S Messiah actually
did suffer but with ALLAH’S help totally triumphed over death or do they truly
wish to reject the wonderful reality that through his magnificent
resurrection he effectively cancelled everything the Jews sought to accomplish
through crucifying him?
Yes, as a direct result of
this magnificent cancellation which ALLAH accomplished through His Messiah’s
glorious resurrection, it was definitely as though the Ibn Maryam had neither
been killed nor crucified or executed. So, the Jews must understand that from the Qur’an’s enlightened
perspective, all their shameful boasting about the Messiah being killed or
crucified is only empty Jewish conjecture and wishful thinking. Yes, it most certainly had appeared to them
that they had ended his life forever. But especially in this situation, what appeared to be reality, was not
reality. They had neither killed nor
crucified Ibn Maryam.
How can every person know
with absolute certainly that ALLAH’S Anointed Messiah has neither been killed
nor crucified? The Qur’an’s emphatic
answer is:
“But ALLAH raised him up unto Himself. ALLAH is ever Mighty Wise.”
Three days after he died,
just as the confused and gleeful Jews were preparing to celebrate their
successful but shameful murder of ALLAH’S Messiah, ALLAH gloriously empowered
him to quietly walk out of his tomb with new life from the ALMIGHTY.
Only one of the multitude
of positive outcomes of the Messiah’s glorious resurrection over the evil of
Jewish leaders is this. Even when the
Israeli Butcher, Ariel Sharon, does something like joyfully proclaiming to the
world that Israel had achieved a “great success” when it has just
murdered five sleeping women and nine sleeping children with a missile from an
American F-16, all Palestinians can know that the resurrection of Ibn Maryam
guarantees that justice will finally triumph over all the big butchers and
little butchers of Israel. His
resurrection also assures us that the present Butcher and each and every one of
his assistant butchers will one day all pay for all of their evil acts and evil
policies toward Palestinians.
Because we know that ALLAH
gloriously raised His Messiah from what APPEARED to be total death and
defeat at the hands of merciless Jewish leaders, we can also know that ALLAH
will in some way bring victorious resurrection to the presently dehumanized
Palestinians. Yes, each Palestinian
will finally see the one who was a former victim himself; reveal his deep
compassion for them. They will then
realize that each time Israel has crushed or tortured a Palestinian, they once
again cruelly and shamefully tortured the compassionate heart of the MERCIFUL’S
Risen Messiah, Ibn Maryam.
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