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“They did not crucify him nor did they kill him, but it was made to
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seem so to them....But Allaah raised him up to Himself.”
They claimed that “raised him up” meant a figurative raising, as used in the verse:
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“And I raised your esteem for you.” 100
This interpretation was necessary in order for them to prove their doctrine that
‘Eesaa died a natural death on earth after marrying and having children and being
buried in Kashmir, and that Ghulam Ahmad was the promised messiah whose
return was prophesied. 101
Even more recently in America, Elijah Muhammad, founder of the Elijah sect
and claimant to Prophethood (d. 1975), interpreted the verse,
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“On that day when the trumpet is blown, I will assemble the criminals
blue-eyed,” 102
as proof that the inhabitants of the fire will all be white people. This interpretation
was used to support the Elijah doctrine that Allaah, God, was a black man, that all
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Soorah an-Nisaa’ (4):157-8.
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Soorah al-Inshiraah (94):4.
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Shorter Encyclopaedia of Islaam, p. 24.
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Soorah Taa Haa (20):102.
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