The Natural Death of Jesus

In Sahih al-Bukhari, there are recorded two different physical descriptions of Jesus a.s —  1. One applying to the past Messiah and  2. The other to the Messiah whose advent in the latter days is prophesied.

101 reasons Jesus did not die on the cross

In all languages of the world, the term used to express a person’s movement from one place to another is different from the term used to express that person’s movement from the second place back to the first.

سیدنا حضرت مرزا غلام احمد صاحب قادیانی مسیح موعود و مہدی ؑ فرماتے ہیں :

List of books containing a mention of Marham-i-Isa , and a statement that the ointment was prepared for Jesus, i.e., for the wounds on his body

صلیب کے واقعہ پر حضرت عیسی علیہ السلام کا وفات نہ پانا اور آسمان پر زندہ جسم سمیت نہ جانے کا بائبل سے ثبوت۔ واقعہ صلیب کے بعد آپ کا اپنے حواریوں سے جسمانی حالت میں ملنا جو اس بات کا ثبوت ہے کہ نہ آپ اوپر زندہ جسمانی طور پر اُٹھا لئے گئے اور نہ ہی آپ صلیب پر فوت ہوئے.

Before shifting our gaze to the facts relating to Christ and his crucifixion, perhaps it would not be out of place to mention here, in brief, the Ahmadiyya Muslim understanding of what happened during and after the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. This issue will be briefly touched upon here and a detailed discussion will follow later.

According to Quran Jesus Christ was not born in December                                          وَهُزِّيْٓ اِلَيْكِ بِجِذْعِ النَّخْلَةِ تُسٰقِطْ عَلَيْكِ رُطَبًا جَنِيًّا      “And Shake towards thyself the trunk of palm tree ; it will drop upon thee fresh ripe dates(19:26)

By Zia H Shah MD My dear Christians, OK, you have been long indoctrinated in the Christian dogma for generations, so you do not immediately understand the swoon hypothesis, the theory that Jesus went into a swoon on the cross and may have been just resuscitated and not resurrected. But consider this, if he was resurrected, was he given a physical body or a spiritual body? This should not be difficult to answer, after a life time of professing belief in resurrection!

The Israelite Messiah, Jesus, died, as is made clear by the Holy Prophet Muhammad’s sayings. And the Messiah whose advent in the latter days has been prophesied by the Holy Prophet, was to be from the Muslim community, and  not  an Israelite prophet. This is borne out by the following  Hadith :