A Study of Baha’u’llah’s
Kitab-i-Iqan, The Book of Certitude
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From the Qura’n Surih 4 (The Women) verses 155-158:
004:155
(They have incurred divine displeasure): In that they broke their covenant; that they rejected the signs of Allah; that they slew the Messengers in defiance of right; that they said, "Our hearts are the wrappings (which preserve Allah's Word; We need no more)";- Nay, Allah hath set the seal on their hearts for their blasphemy, and little is it they believe;-
004.156
That they rejected Faith; that they uttered against Mary a grave false charge;
004.157
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:-
004.158
Nay, Allah raised him up unto Himself; and Allah is Exalted
in Power, Wise;-
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1669. Muhammad Says that the Jews did not Crucify Christ
"Regarding your question relative to Surih 4, 156 of the 'Qur'an' in which Muhammad says that the Jews did not crucify Jesus, the Christ but one like Him; what is meant by this passage is that although the Jews succeeded in destroying the physical body of Jesus, yet they were impotent to destroy the Divine reality in Him."
(From a letter written on behalf of the Guardian to an individual believer, March 19, 1938)
(Compilations, Lights of Guidance, p. 497 )