With Love to the Muslims of the World — Page 23
23 preted during the course of history by ulema of later periods. A H MADIYYA B ELIEF ABOUT J ESUS C HRIST AS 1. Ahmad i s believe that Jesus Christ as was a prophet of God, with messianic stature, yet he was a human being and had no supernatural powers as against the rest of the messengers of Allah. 2. Jesus Christ as , according to the Ahmadiyya interpreta- tion of the Holy Qur’an and Traditions, did not die upon the Cross and his opponents failed to murder him. He was delivered from the Cross in a state of coma and was mistaken for dead by the onlookers. This confusion is referred to in the Holy Qur’an under the words i. e. the matter was made obscure to them. The Ahmad i s believe that he lived many more years after the Crucifixion and migrated to find the lost sheep of the house of Israel—the ten Tribes that had migrated to eastern lands. The reader may refer to Jesus in India 4 and relevant literature on the topic. B ELIEF OF N ON -A H MAD I S CHOLARS ABOUT J ESUS AS As against this, most of the non-Ahmad i scholars belong- ing to majority sects believe that Jesus was saved from death upon the Cross in a completely different manner: A Jew was transformed by God into the image of Jesus so perfectly that when Jesus was bodily lifted to heaven by angels and this imitation of Jesus was planted in his place, everybody was completely duped and misled. So, it was 4 By Hadrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad as. [Publisher]