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universally acknowledged to have been revealed to our beloved Prophet during the Battle of Uhud in about the third year of Hijra declares that all Messengers whose advents are recorded before the advent of the Holy. Prophet have already died. Had Jesus been alive at that point in time when this verse was revealed to our beloved Prophet, peace and blessings of. Allah be upon him, then an exception in his case would have been positively recorded in the Glorious Book. . However the mere fact that such an exception has not been recorded in the Glorious Quran which is the 'decisive Word of the Almighty Lord 79 and which contains no doubt in it, 80 one is obliged to admit that the son of Mary must have suffered his mortal death before the revelation of this verse just as all other Messengers of Allah whose advents are recorded before the Holy Prophet of Islam, peace be upon them all, had suffered their mortal fate. . This, may one add is a clear verdict of the Holy Quran and a denial to admit the validity of this verdict would be tantamount to casting a doubt on the authority of the Glorious Book. . Infact, when one searches the history of Islam, one finds that on the authority of this verse, early Muslims unanimously agreed on the death of all prophets including the son of Mary. We are for instance told that on the sad occasion of the Holy Prophet's demise, one of his most faithful and beloved companions, Hazrat Umar Farooq, drew his sword from the sheath and threatened to behead anyone who dared announce that our beloved Prophet had died. He maintained that our master, peace be upon him, 'had ascended to heaven even as Moses had gone to his Lord for a time and would return to punish the hypocrites. '. On hearing this, the first and foremost of the faithful, Hazrat Abu. Bakr Siddique recited the Quranic verse 3. 145 and declared: 'Those amongst you who worship God, let them know that God is alive and will remain alive. But those amongst you who worshipped. Muhammed, let them know that Muhammed has passed away. ' 79. Al Quran 86. 14 80. Al Quran 2. 3 81. Sahih Bukhari: Kitab an Nabi Illa Kaisra wa Kaisar 81 154