The Essence of Islam – Volume III — Page 254
254. Essence of Islam-III prejudiced thinking, it appears clearly that Jesus did meet his disciples in his corporeal and mortal body and undertook a long journey on foot all the way to Galilee, showed his wounds to the disciples, supped with them and spent the night in their company. We shall prove later that he also treated his wounds with an ointment. . Here one must pause and consider as to how it was that. Jesus, after being invested with a glorious and eternal body with which he was to sit eternally on the right hand of God Almighty, and which should have been exempt from the need of food and drink and should have been free from every stain and pain and deficiency and should have reflected the glory of God the Eternal, he was still bearing the marks of the wounds suffered on the cross, which were bleeding and hurting him, and for which an ointment had been prepared. This glorious and immortal body, which should have endured through eternity secure, faultless, perfect and unchangeable, was so full of defects. Indeed, Jesus himself showed his flesh and bones to his disciples. . . . . Thus without a doubt the truth is that Jesus did not die on the cross, nor was he invested with a new glorious body. . He had become unconscious and appeared to have died, but Divine grace so ordained that the sepulchre, in which he was placed, was not like the graves in this country. It was a commodious, ventilated chamber with a window. . It was customary with the Jews at that time to build such chambers beforehand and place corpses in them when the need arose. . . . . Of the testimonies contained in the Gospel is the one concerning the statement of Pilate recorded in Mark, which reads as follows: