The Shining Lamp — Page 112
112 accursed? Thus, if he who is crucified is accursed, then there is no doubt that the curse which is generally the result of being crucified would have fallen on Jesus as well. But it is the unanimous view of the people of the world that the curse connotes being distant from God and being disgusted with Him. Simply suffering from an affliction does not mean that one is accursed. Being accursed means turning away from God, hating God, and becoming His enemy. Thus ْ لَعِين —accursed, on the basis of the lexicon, is a title of Satan. So reflect, for the sake of God, whether it is permissible for a righteous one to be termed an enemy of God, one disgusted with God, and be designated as Satan and one of whom God is an enemy. It would have been better for the Christians if they had accepted Hell for themselves instead of considering a chosen one of God as accursed and Satan. Cursed is the salvation that can only be achieved by declaring righteous ones to be faithless and satans. The Holy Quran did well by revealing the truth that [ Jesus] the Messiah was spared from the filth of the curse by saving him from the crucifixion. This is also attested to by the Gospels insofar as Jesus described his own case as resembling that of [the Prophet] Jonah, and no Christian is unaware of the fact that Jonah did not die in the belly of the whale. Thus, if Yas u ‘ [ Jesus] lay dead in the sepulchre, how would it be appropriate to compare a corpse to a living person, and what likeness could there be of a living person to a dead one? It is also known that after deliverance from the cross, Yas u ‘ exhibited his wounds to his disciples. So, if he had been bestowed a glorious body after death, how was it that he still retained the wounds received by his previous body? Had there been some