Life of Ahmad — Page 306
JESUS as IS DEAD as 306 knowledge thereof, but only follow a conjecture; they slew him not for certain. Nay, Allah exalted him to Himself and Allah is Mighty, Wise. And there is none among the people of the Book but will believe in this fact (the crucifixion of Jesus as ) before his death; and on the day of Resurrection Jesus shall be a witness against them. ' (Al-Nis a ’ 4:157-160). It should be noted that the Jews speak here of Jesus as as a Messenger of God while as a matter of fact they do not believe him to be one. The reason is simple. They call him so only derisively because Deut. 21-23 says: 'He who is hanged is accursed of God. ' What the Quranic verse lays down is that every Jew and Christian must, according to their creeds, continue to believe in the death of Jesus as on the Cross. The Jew because he wants to show that the curse of God fell upon Jesus as , and the Christian because he wants to affirm the doctrine of Atonement. Anyhow, it is clear that there is nothing in the Quran which refers in any way to the corporeal ascension of Jesus as to heaven. On the other hand, there are many verses in the Holy Quran which clearly refer to the death of Jesus as as having happened according to the ordinary laws of nature governing mortal beings. I cite here a few of them: 'And when Allah will say, "O Jesus, son of Mary, didst thou say to men," Take me and my