Deliverance from the Cross — Page 4
was taken down before life became extinct and was ministered unto and was resuscitated and met his disciples and thereafter departed from Judaea to carry his message to the lost tribes of Israel and eventually died at a good old age on a pleasant plateau with springs of running water (al-Mu'minun 23:51). They believe in his second advent in the latter days, as prophesied by the Holy Prophet, when his function would be to wipe out evil, to restore virtue, to revive Islam and refute the fiction of the death of Jesus upon the cross. Beginning with the last decade of the nineteenth century of the Christian era, evidence has become progressively available which throws light upon several aspects of the mystery of Jesus, on the basis of which we can proceed with a certain degree of assurance to put these aspects in proper perspective. This book is the result of such an effort. We venture the hope that it might stimulate the thinking of some of those seekers after truth who attach value to the eternal verities and might prove helpful to them in their search. All references, unless otherwise specified, are to the Holy Quran. London, March 1978 Zafrulla Khan 4