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to the unbelieving Jews: They did not really kill him; but
God took him up unto Himself” (Quran, 4:157- 158) [1] .

The same chastisement was inflicted upon the
Christians who believed and still believe that he was really
crucified and killed upon the Cross, and imagine him to be
God or the son of God. To these the Quran replied; “Yet
they [the Jews] slew him not, nor crucified him, but the
matter was made dubious to them.” Several believers in
Jesus (pbuh) in the very beginning of Christianity denied that
Christ himself suffered upon, the Cross, but maintained
that another among his followers, Judas Iscariot or another
very like him, was seized and crucified in his stead. The
Corinthians, the Basilidians, the Corpocratians and many
other sectaries held the same view. I have fully discussed
this question of the Crucifixion in my work entitled Injil
wa Salib (“The Gospel and the Cross”), of which only one
volume was published in Turkish just before the Great
War. I shall devote an article to this subject. So the justice
done to Jesus (pbuh) by Ahmad was to authoritatively
declare that he was “Ruhu ’lLah,” the Spirit of God that
he was not himself crucified and killed, and that he was a
human being but a beloved and holy messenger of God.
This was what Jesus (pbuh) meant by justice concerning his
person, mission, and transportation into heaven, and this
was actually accomplished by the Apostle of Allah.

(d) The most important mark of Periqlyte is that
he would chastise the world because of Judgment
“because the prince of this world is to be judged”
(john xvi. 11). The King or Prince of this world was Satan
(john xii. 31, xiv. 30), because the world was subject

[1] Quran,4: 157. That they said (in boast), «We killed Christ Jesus (pbuh) the son
of Mary (pbuh) ,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:- Quran,4:158 158. Nay, Allah raised him up unto Himself; and
Allah is exalted in Power, Wise. (Editors.).