Stories from Early Ahmadiyyat — Page 35
35 cannot furnish any proof from the Holy Quran or from the Sayings of the Holy Prophet saw of Islam. The Holy Quran clearly states that all the Prophets before Hazrat Muhammad saw had died ( Surah Aal-e-Imraan, 3:145). Similarly, the Sayings of the Holy Prophet saw of Islam establish this fact that Jesus died at the age of 120. The Holy Quran tells us that Jesus as was a prophet of God, raised by God among the children of Israel. Jesus as himself had made it clear to his people that he was the last prophet to be raised among the children of Israel, and that if the Jews rejected him, the kingdom of heaven would pass to another people. Thus it happened that prophethood came to an end among the children of Israel and the ‘Spirit of Truth’ (Muhammad, peace be upon him) was raised among the descendants of Ishmael, their brethren. The prayer of Jesus as that the cup of death on the cross be turned away from him, the agonised cry from the cross, the precautions taken by him when meeting his disciples after his recovery from his injuries, are all con- sistent with the truth taught by the Holy Quran. Even when the body of Jesus as was about to be taken down from the cross and was to be handed over to Joseph of Arimathea, a Roman soldier wounded Jesus as in his side with a spear. Blood and water came out of his wound; a clear testimony that Jesus as was still alive.