CRUCIFIED OR CRUCIPLAYED

They � could be anybody � he, she, it, Jews, Gentiles, Roman, kafir, Muslims.

To continue from Page 7 with the sacrifice for the purification for sin from Numbers 19:

9 Then a man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and store them outside the camp in a clean place; and they shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for the water of purification; it is for purifying from sin.

--- (And this is the way the ashes of the heifer were used.)
17 �And for an unclean person they shall take some of the ashes of the heifer burnt for purification from sin, and running water shall be put on them in a vessel.
18 A clean person shall take hyssop and dip it in the water, sprinkle it on the tent, on all the vessels, on the persons who were there, or on the one who touched a bone, the slain, the dead, or a grave.

Note: --- The ashes of the heifer mixed with: 'cedar wood, hyssop, and scarlet,' were kept in a clean place, and would be used for �purification from sin.� --- It was to be �a perpetual or continual statute for them,� --- They would take some of the ashes, mix them with clean water, and use a sprig of hyssop to sprinkle �the water of purification� on the unclean person or vessel.
However, when the ashes were all used up, they would have to find another unblemished heifer, to prepare more ashes.

From 2:73, --- if we �apply� to the dead body, --- or �compare� the dead body of Jesus to the sacrificed heifer (which was the perfect sacrifice of hundreds of years earlier for the Jewish people), --- we can see a parallel --- that Jesus was the perfect Sacrifice for sin, --- (as were the ashes of the heifer from the OT Covenant that God instructed, for the purification from sin).

--- The difference is that the dead body of Jesus was brought back to life, --- and therefore conquered death. --- And in this we �see His Sign,� of �newness of life� or �resurrection from the dead.� --- And then, after Jesus was raised from the dead, God took Him up to Himself, --- as it says in Surah 3:
55 Behold! God said: "O Jesus! I will take thee and raise thee to Myself and clear thee (of the falsehoods) of those who blaspheme; I will make those who follow thee superior to those who reject faith, to the Day of Resurrection: (I understand the Arabic word used to say,"I will take thee," --- refers to physical death, asis rendered by Sher Ali in 3:
55 Remember the time when ALLAH said' `O Jesus, I will cause thee to die a natural death and will raise thee to Myself, and will clear thee of the charges of those who disbelieve, and will exalt those who follow thee above those who disbelieve,

(Jesus was resurrected, rather than the OT sacrifice for purification from sin, that, when the ashes were all used up, they had to be replaced by the ashes of another perfect heifer).


As I said before, --- A footnote in the Pickthall translation: --- Maulana says that verses 72-73 refer to the Martyrdom of Jesus Christ.
Here I want to give the commentary on verses 72 and 73 by Maulana Muhammad Ali; from his website: http://www.muslim.or...quran/quran.htm

(Quote):
72a. The story generally narrated by the commentators to explain this passage is not based on any saying of the Holy Prophet; nor is it met with in the Bible. The very indefiniteness of the incident is an indication that it refers to some well-known event in history, and as almost all incidents of the stubbornness of the Jewish nation prior to the time of Jesus have been mentioned, it becomes almost certain that this incident refers to Jesus himself, as it was with respect to his death that disagreement took place and many doubted his death.
This inference becomes stronger when we compare the incidents narrated
here with the same incidents as narrated in Surah 4:153�157, where, after enumerating almost all the incidents narrated here in the three previous sections,
--- (their disobedience, their breaking of the Covenant, and their breaking of the Sabbath), 4:154-156 --- the Qur�an goes on to accuse the Jews in the following words: �And for their saying:
We have killed the Messiah, Jesus, son of Mary, the messenger of Allah, and they killed him not, nor did they cause his death on the cross, but he was made to appear to them as such. And certainly those who differ therein are in doubt about it. They have no knowledge about it, but only follow a conjecture� (4:157).

The part quoted answers exactly to vv. 72 and 73, only that the name is omitted here. This comparison makes it clear that it is the apparent killing of Jesus that is referred to here. --- End of quote.


Placid

CArinheart,
is that the reason you say now that different ways lead to God, when you quote "in their wisdom they became fools"?
Hasan

honeto wrote: CArinheart, is that the reason you say now that different ways lead to God, when you quote "in their wisdom they became fools"? Hasan