Guidance for Perceiving Minds — Page 103
103 were raised with their bodies to the heavens. In short, the raising of the body was not a sign of the people of faith among the Jews, and their rejection was nothing but raising the soul of Jesus as , and that is what they say to this day. If we assume that the Almighty’s saying, 1 ِ ُه ْ َْي� ل ِِإ ُ � ِہّٰلل ََعَُهُ ا � َّف ََْلْ َّر � ِب Was to explain the raising of Jesus’ body to heaven, then where is the mention of the raising of his soul, which would purify him from the curse and testify to his exoneration? As mentioning it was necessary to refute what the Jews and Christians wrongly claimed, and that is sufficient for you if you are of people of maturity and intelligence. Do you think that Allah has left out the explanation of raising the soul that saves Jesus as from what was adjudicated to him by the Mosaic law, while He was concerned with mentioning the raising of the body, which is not related to something that entails a curse according to this group? Rather, it is a nonsensical matter that became well-known among the Christians and the common people, and there is no truth in it. The only thing that motivated the Christians to do that was the insistent attack of the Jews, and their saying that Jesus as is cursed because he was crucified, like the wicked, and the one who is crucified is cursed according to the Torah, and there is no room for escape here, so the land became too strait for the Christians because of these attacks, and they became in the hands of the Jews 1. On the contrary, Allah exalted him to Himself ( S u rah an-Nis a’ , 4:159). [Publisher]