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NOAH'S ARK Know for certain that Jesus son of Mary has died. His grave is in Mohalla Khanyar, Srinagar, Kashmir. ¹³ God Almighty Himself has spoken of his demise in His Beloved Book. For if the following verse [cited below] has some other implication, then where else has the death of Jesus son of Mary been mentioned in the Quran? If the verses regarding his death mean something else, as our opponents believe, then this would suggest that the Quran has nowhere addressed the issue of his death, and whether he would ever pass away. God has spoken of the death of our Prophet, but in the whole of the Quran, He has nowhere mentioned the death of Jesus. What is the secret behind this? If informs us of the death of فَلَمَّا تَوَفَّيْتَنِي كُنتَ اَنْتَ الرَّقِيبَ عَلَيْهِمْ 14 the verse Jesus, the clear implication of this verse is that he died before the 13 Note: Christian researchers have also expressed this view. See Supernatural Religion, page 522. * For further information consult page 139 of my book Tuhfa-e-Golarhviyyah. (Author) * In the revised edition of Supernatural Religion by Walter Richard Cassels, vol. 3 published in 1879 by Longmans, Green, and Co. , this appears on pages 523-524. [Publisher] 14 It is evident from this verse* that Jesus, peace be upon him, will not reappear in the world. For if he was to return to the world again, in such a case, it would be a mere lie for Jesus to respond by saying that he knew nothing of the decline of the Christians. Now as for such a person who returns to the world for a second time; lives for forty years; witnesses tens of millions of Christians deify him; breaks the cross and converts all of the Christians to Islam, how could he stand before his Lord on the Day of Resurrection and claim ignorance of the decline of the Christians? (Author) *[Surah Al-Maa'idah, 5:118, Publisher] 27