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236to 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 wasreally 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 hisfollowers,JudasIscariot or another very like him, was seized and crucified in his stead. The Corinthians, the Basilidians, the Corpocratians andmany other sectaries held the same view. I have fullydiscussed this question of the Crucifixion in my work entitled Injīl wa Salīb (“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 “Rūhu ’lLāh,” 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 concerninghis 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.).