Truth About The Crucifixion — Page 154
word of the Exalted God: Every soul shall taste of death, and Jesus -peace be upon him -belonged to the human species for which death is ordained. Some people presume that he is dead and lies buried in a locality which they mention by name, and maybe it is India, and God - may He be exalted - knows best what He has said and done. Those who allege that Jesus was not put on the cross should look up a Quranic Concordance, where they will find that the word salaba is used at five (5) places about this special death. punishment (namely Yusuf 12:42, al-A'raf 7:126, TaHa 20:50 and al-Ma'idah 5:33). At two places it is used (sulb, aslab) about spine, back-bone, namely at-Tariq 86:8 and an-Nisa' 4:24. So in accordance with this Mufradat confirms that salaba means: to break the spine or back-bone or to bring out the marrow of the bone (by breaking it). So what the verse states: maqataluhu wama salabuhu means that they did not kill him (by strangling or stoning) or by a completion of the well-known death-punishment (in so far as they did not break his bones). But he appeared to them like one killed, says the verse. Now shubbiha and its derivatives are found in the Quran at 12 (twelve) places, invariably meaning "to be like or similar" to something or someone. But as it is here used in the passive, it can only refer, according to Arabic grammar, to a wellknown (implied) subject, i. e. in the context it can only refer to Jesus and not to some one else who is neither mentioned here nor elsewhere in the Quran. To sum up: the Jews plotted to disprove the Messiahship of Jesus by killing him on the cross, but God counter-acted their plot on their own plane by saving him from the shameful death 146