

For more reading consult Chapters 3:55 and the whole of Chapters 19:27-35 and 19:91-95.See this page in: Indonesian, Portuguese, Spanish The essential difference There are other references in the Qur’an on this. For Jesus to die on the cross would have meant the triumph of his adversaries but the Qur’an asserts that they undoubtedly failed in their plan. The Jews did not kill him, he was raised up by Allah (“Bal rafa‘a-hu Llahu ilai-hi) and based on Allah’s pronouncement that every one shall die, (kulu nafsun zaiqatul maot) he will appear before the final hour and die before resurrection.Īgain still on the issue of crucification, Allah made faith triumph over the forces of evil and adversity. Barnabas which supported the Islamic view that Jesus was not crucified rather he was substituted on the cross.

This “raising” is often understood to mean through bodily ascension. Muslims believe that Jesus was not crucified but instead, he was raised up by God unto the heavens. And ever is Allah Exalted in Might and Wise. They have no knowledge of it except on assumption. And indeed, those who differ over it are in doubt about it. ” And they did not kill him, nor did they crucify him but was made to resemble him to them. “And their saying, “Indeed, we have killed the Messiah, Jesus, the son of Mary, the messenger of Allah.

The Qur’an states that people (i.e., the Jews and Romans) sought to kill Jesus, but they did not crucify nor kill him “this was made to appear to them as though they killed him”. These are in Sura Aal Imran, Chapter 3 Sura Nisa’chapter 4 in Sura Ma’ida, chapter 5 and in Sura Maryam chapter 19 explaining that Jesus was not killed by the Jews, either by stoning or by crucifixion. The issue about his death appeared in four places. Islam does not support neither in the atonement of sins nor his death on the cross. The cardinal point of the Christian doctrine is that his life was taken on the cross of Calvary which according to them meant the blood sacrifice or the vicarious atonement for sins. So peace is on me the day I was born, the day that I die, and the day that I shall be raised up to life (again)!”-Qur’an 19: 30-33
