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The belief that Jesus only appeared to be crucified and did not actually die predates Islam and is found in several New Testament apocrypha and Gnostic Gospels. [ 10 ] : 41 [ 17 ] : 110–111 [ 18 ] : 82–86 [ 19 ] : 918 Although most contemporary scholars argue that the Islamic portrayal of Jesus himself is not docetic , his crucifixion ...
While most scholars, [60] Jews, [61] and Christians believe Jesus died, orthodox Muslim theology teaches he ascended to Heaven without being put on the cross and God transformed another person, Simon of Cyrene, to appear exactly like Jesus who was crucified instead of Jesus (cf. Irenaeus' description of the heresy of Basilides, Book I, ch. XXIV ...
Ahmadiyyas state that there are at least 30 verses of the Quran that suggest that Jesus did not ascend to Heaven but instead died a natural death on Earth. The verses in Chapter Al-Nisa (4:157-158) indicate that Jesus did not die on the Cross - but rather that God had "raised" Jesus unto God Himself (not into heaven).
A verse in the Qur'an saying of Jesus that "they killed him not, nor crucified him, but so it was made to appear to them" [9] has been interpreted by many Muslims to mean that a different man who only appeared to be Jesus died in his place. Muslim scholars do not agree on the identity of the substitute, but he is often thought to have been one ...
In Islam, Jesus (Isa) is considered to be a messenger of God and the Messiah who was sent to guide the Descendants of Israel (Bani Isra'il) with a new scripture, the Gospel . [ 24 ] [ 25 ] The Quran mentions Jesus by name 25 times—more often than Muhammad [ 26 ] —and emphasises that Jesus was a mortal human who, like all other prophets, had ...
Most Islamic traditions categorically deny that Jesus physically died, either on a cross or another manner. This denial is asserted in the Quran , which states: And [for] their saying, "Indeed, we have killed the Messiah, Jesus the son of Mary, the messenger of Allah."
There are no secular sources that indicate his response to the letter, but Muslim sources assume he became a Muslim since sources indicate that the Islamic prophet Muhammad prayed an absentee funeral prayer in Madinah which is performed upon a dead Muslim if they die in a place with no Muslims to pray for the dead. Such prayer is only performed ...
Injil (Arabic: إنجيل, romanized: ʾInjīl, alternative spellings: Ingil or Injeel) is the Arabic name for the Gospel of Jesus ().This Injil is described by the Qur'an as one of the four Islamic holy books which was revealed by Allah, the others being the Zabur (traditionally understood as being the Psalms), the Tawrat (the Torah), and the Qur'an itself.