current status of Jesus (PBUH) in quran

Answe by Dr,Zakir Naik

Well, of course from the story above i learn you muslims accept that Issa does miracles, but he is not crucified? Plz, will you help me understand with verses from Quran abt the current status of Issa, alive? Dead and resurrected? plz help me

Praise be to Allah:

QUR’AN GIVE THE ANSWER ABOUT THE CRUCIFIXION, IN ONE VERSE, HUNDRED PIECES IN ONE SHOT.



Al-Qur'an ch 4 verse 157: That they said (in boast), "We killed Christ Jesus the son of Mary, the Messenger of Allah";- but they killed him not, nor crucified him, but so it was made to appear to them, and those who differ therein are full of doubts, with no (certain) knowledge, but only conjecture to follow, for of a surety they killed him not:-



Honestly, We do not expect anyone to ask us about our belief as a Muslim concerning the Crucifixion. Our belief is the Qur’ânic belief as categorically stated in Chapter IV, Verse 157.

We believe that Jesus(pbuh) he raised up live and he will come back again in this world not for the Muslims but for the Christians, who miss took him as he claim divinity. He will come to prove that christian that He never claim divinity. He is only the prophet of God, his people claimed that "He"(Jesus(pbuh) claim divinity. There is not less then Seventy Haith said He will come again and then he will die and on the day of judgment He will again Resurrected. In Shaa Allah.

Jesus in the next coming he will replying to the Christine

If you read Gospel of Mathew ch 7 verse 22-23 “Many will say to me in that day, o master , o master, have we not prophesied in your name , cast out demons in your name, and done many wonders in your name,?

23”And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you ; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’

Jesus saying to the Christine you who say we did miracle in your name ? jesus says you people of inequity depart from here ,I even don’t know you.



REASON FOR DIFFERENCE


In any event, if there is any division between a Muslim and a Christian on the grounds of dogma, belief, ethics or morality, then the cause of such conflict could be traced to an utterance of Paul found in his books of Corinthians, Phillipians, Galatians, Thessolanians, etc., in the Bible.


As against the teaching of the Master (Jesus) that salvation only comes through keeping of the commandments (Mathew ch 19:16-17),and (Mathew Ch 5: 17-20), Paul nails the law and the commandments to the cross Paul nails the law and the commandments to the cross (Colossians ch 2:14) 1 and claims that salvation can only be obtained through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ:-


"If Christ be not risen from the dead, then our preaching is vain, and your faith is also vain."
(1 Corinthians Ch 15:14)


1. One of the multifarious letters/correspondence of Paul among the 27 Books of the New Testament.

NO CRUCI-FICTION — NO CHRISTIANITY

"THE DEATH OF JESUS ON THE CROSS IS THE CENTRE OF ALL CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY. . . ALL CHRISTIAN STATEMENTS ABOUT GOD, ABOUT CREATION, ABOUT SIN AND DEATH HAVE THEIR FOCAL POINT IN THE CRUCIFIED CHRIST. ALL CHRISTIAN STATEMENTS ABOUT HISTORY, ABOUT THE CHURCH, ABOUT FAITH AND SANCTIFICATION, ABOUT THE FUTURE AND ABOUT HOPE STEM FROM THE CRUCIFIED CHRIST", says Professor Jurgen Moltmann in his — "The Crucified God".1


1. "GOD": The bulk of Christendom accept Jesus Christ as God incarnate — God in human flesh. According to the Christian dogma, Jesus must die as God, for a million human sacrifices cannot redeem mankind from their sin.


In a nutshell. No CrucifixionI — No Christianity! This is the experience of us Muslims, in this ocean of Christianity,

DEMAND FOR PROOF


When confronted by the extravagant and conflicting claims of the Jews and the Christians to their exclusive rights to salvation, Allah subha nahu wa-ta aala1 commands us to demand for proof. He says:

(SURA BAQARA)Holy Qur’ân 2:111 And they say: "None shall enter Paradise unless he be a Jew or a Christian." Those are their (vain) desires. Say: "Produce your proof if ye are truthful."


SISTER , I CAN GIVE A LECTURE HOUR TOGETHER ON JESUS IS NOT CRUSIFIED FROM THE BIBLE , BUT I JUST GIVE A IMPORTANT SIGN , WHICH MENTION IN THE BIBLE. “SIGN OF JOHNA”


Matthew records that the learned men among the Jews - the Scribes and Pharisees - came to Jesus and asked, Matthew 12:38: "MASTER, WE WOULD SEE A SIGN FROM THEE".

What they really wanted was some "magic trick," some "sleight of hand" like producing a rabbit out of a hat or walking on the water or flying in the air or trodding on burning coal. This is the type of "sign" or MIRACLE they were looking for. The Jews mistook him for a sorcerer, a wizard, a charlatan


NO "SIGN" BUT ONE:With righteous indignation Jesus replies: "AN EVIL AND ADULTEROUS GENERATION SEEKETH AFTER A SIGN; AND THERE SHALL NO SIGN (no miracle) BE GIVEN TO IT, BUT THE SIGN (miracle) OF THE PROPHET JONAS: FOR AS JONAS WAS THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS IN THE WHALE'S BELLY; SO SHALL THE SON(Jesus) OF MAN BE THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS IN THE HEART OF THE EARTH." Matthew 12:39-40)."No sign," says Jesus, BUT ONE! - "THE SIGN OF THE PROPHET JONAS!" He is putting all his "eggs" in one basket. His claim to being the Messiah (Christ) stands or falls the ONLY "sign" he was prepared to give. Did Jesus fulfill the only sign he gave? Christendom answers with a unanimous Y-E-S! without heeding the Biblical advice - 'not to take things for granted.' - but "PROVE ALL THINGS!" (1 Thessalonians 5:21)

JONAH FLEES HIS CALL


What was the "sign" (miracle) of Jonah? We have to go to the "Book of Jonah" in the Old Testament to find out. God commanded Jonah to go to Nineveh and warn the Ninevites to repent from their "evil ways, and from the violence that is in their hands." (Jonah 3:8) But Jonah was loath to go as a warner unto the Ninevites, so he goes to Joppa instead of Ninevah, and takes a boat to run away from the Lord's command.


While at sea, there was a terrible tempest. According to the superstition of the mariners, a person fleeing from his Master's command creates such a turmoil at sea. They began to enquire among themselves and said,

"COME, AND LET US CAST LOTS, (like the tossing of a coin, "head" or "tail") THAT WE MAY KNOW FOR WHOSE CAUSE THIS EVIL IS UPON US. SO THEY CAST LOTS, AND THE LOT FELL UPON JONAH." (Jonah 1:7).


Though here was a temporary lapse on the part of Jonah in fulfilling his mission, he manfully and most outrageously volunteers: "AND HE SAID UNTO THEM TAKE ME UP, AND CAST ME FORTH INTO THE SEA; SO SHALL THE SEA BE CALM UNTO YOU: FOR I KNOW THAT FOR MY SAKE THIS GREAT TEMPEST IS UPON YOU." (Jonah 1:12)
DEAD OR ALIVE?


Since Jonah was selflessly offering himself as a "vicarious" sacrifice there was no need for strangling him before throwing him into the sea, no need to spear him or break his arm or limb. In his own words: "TAKE ME UP AND CAST ME FORTH." The question now arises, that when the shipmaster and the crew threw him overboard, was Jonah dead or alive? Any Christian child who has attended Sunday School will give an immediate reply: "ALIVE!" The storm subsides. Was this perhaps a coincidence? A fish swallows Jonah. Was he dead or alive when swallowed? The answer again is "ALIVE" Was he dead or alive when "JONAH PRAYED UNTO THE LORD HIS GOD OUT OF THE FISH'S BELLY?" (Jonah 2:1)


Surely dead men don't cry and don't pray! The answer again is "ALIVE" For three days and three nights the fish takes him around the ocean: dead or alive? "ALIVE!" is the answer. On the third day it vomits him on the seashore: dead or alive? A-L-I-V-E, of course! What had Jesus prophesied about himself? He said: "AS JONAH WAS ..... SO SHALL THE SON OF MAN BE" LIKE JONAH. And how was Jonah? Was he dead or alive for three days and three nights? Alive! ALIVE! ALIVE! is the unanimous answer from the Jew, the Christian and the Muslim!


UNLIKE JONAH


If Jonah was alive for three days and three nights, then Jesus also ought to have been alive in the tomb as he himself had foretold! But Christianity hangs on the flimsy thread of the death" of Jesus for its salvation. So it has to answer that Jesus was DEAD for three days and three nights. The contradiction between his utterance and its fulfilment is obvious. Jonah ALIVE, Jesus DEAD! Very UNLIKE Jonah! Jesus had said "LIKE Jonah" not UNLIKE Jonah. If this is true then according to his own test Jesus is not the TRUE Messiah of the Jews. If the Gospel record is genuine then how can we blame the Jews for rejecting "CHRIST".


THREE AND THREE = 72 HOURS?:


The Doctor of Divinity and the Professor of Theology replies that in Matthew 12:40 under discussion, the emphasis is on the TIME factor - "as Jonas was THREE days and THREE nights in the belly of the whale, so shall the son of man be THREE days and THREE nights in the heart of the earth." "Please note," says the learned theologian, "that the word "THREE" is repeated F-O-U-R times in this verse to prove that Jesus was going to fulfil the prophecy as regards the length of time he was going to remain in the tomb, and NOT 'As Jonas was' in relation to his being alive or dead. If it is the time factor that Jesus was stressing then let us ask whether he fulfilled that aspect of his promise to the Jews as well. The Christian dogmatist answers: "OF COURSE!"
There are numerous differences between the various sects and denominations of Christianity, but on the above they are unanimous. Jesus is SUPPOSED to be in the tomb on the night of Friday. He is still SUPPOSED to be in the tomb on the day of Saturday. He is still SUPPOSED to be in the tomb on the night of Saturday. Christians agree whole-heartedly with this. It will be noted that I have repeated the word 'SUPPOSED' three times. The reason is that the Gospels are silent as to when exactly Jesus came out of the tomb. He could have been taken away on Friday night by his "secret disciples" to a more congenial and restful place, but I have no right to assume about what the Gospel writers are silent. I have, therefore, repeated the word 'SUPPOSED' three times.

In the final analysis, let us see whether Jesus was THREE days and THREE nights in the tomb:-


EASTER WEEK IN THE SEPULCHER
DAYS NIGHTS

FRIDAY - placed in tomb just before sunset - nil - One night
SATURDAY - supposed to be in tomb One day One night
SUNDAY - missing before sunrise - nil - - nil -
TOTAL One Day Two Nights

You will have no doubt note that the GRAND TOTAL is ONE day and TWO nights, and NOT three days and three nights. According to the Christian Scriptures Jesus had failed a SECOND time. FIRST he was unlike Jonah, who was ALIVE in the belly of the fish, which is the exact opposite of what the Christians claim had happened to their master Jesus, who was DEAD for the same period of time as


Jonah was - ALIVE.

SECONDLY, we discover that he also failed to fulfill the TIME FACTOR as well. Even they would have ask to Albert Einstein, he will fail to obtain the desired result - THREE days and THREE nights. We must not forget that the Gospels are explicit in telling us that it was "before sunrise" on Sunday morning (the FIRST day of the week), that Mary Magdalene went to the tomb of Jesus and found it empty”

CRUCIFICT instead of CRUCIFY (Verb)
CRUCIFICTED instead of CRUCIFIED (Verb)
CRUCI-FICTION instead of CRUCIFIXION (Noun)

THIS IS ONE OF THE IMPORTANT POINT I MENTION HERE , THERE ARE MORE , BUT THIS IS NOT THE RIGHT PLACE I CAN DISCUSS EACH AND EVERY THING, INSHALLAH SOON WE WILL GOING TO POST HERE RELATED TOPIC SIMILARETIES BETWEEN ISLAM AND CHRISTIANITY , WAS JESUS REALLY CRUSIFIED, ETC



Hope that answer the question