Hundred Questions - Jesus Christ (c)
Jesus Christ (May peace be through him)
Q25 Was Jesus (May peace be through him) crucified or not? (Proofs must be from the Qur'an). Where did the light come from?
A25 I have an article regarding Jesus (May peace be through him) that is published in my Panj Maqalah II, please read it. It is our principle that if we have already answered a question, then we do not write on it again and when necessary, we refer to it. However, we will try to discuss briefly some important points here too.
First of all, it should be noted that if God provides for His friends – the Prophets and Imams – the means of fleeing from the battlefield instead of granting them the courage to have patience and endurance during the severest difficulties of the world and to sacrifice themselves for the sake of upholding the truth, then the enthusiasm for sacrifice and yearning for martyrdom will cease to exist, and nobody will be ready to suffer in the path of God. It is clear from this logic that the blessed body of Jesus (May peace be through him) was sacrificed for the sake of religion.
It should be known that God considers those martyrs, who are slain in the path of God as alive (3:169) and considers as dead some people who are as yet alive (16:21). Do such events not have two aspects? Does not this mean that martyrs are dead with respect to body, but with respect to soul they are alive, and those who are considered dead by God are alive physically but are dead spiritually. Thus it should be understood that Jesus (May peace be through him) was martyred physically on the cross, but spiritually he was alive in the presence of God. For he was the Spirit of God and all the Prophets and Imams are in the same position. Then who can harm the Spirit of God? This is the gist of the Qur'anic verses regarding Jesus (May peace be through him). For further details see the article referred to above.
At the end of the question it is asked: "Where did light come from?" This question is conceived in the background that where the light exists today, it did not exist before. This idea indeed is not correct. The light is always in the same glory, as the Qur'an (24:35) says: "Allah is the light of the heavens and the earth".
If Allah is the light of the heavens and the earth (i.e. the universe and its existents), this means that the entire universe and all these things, which exist today were immersed in the light of God in their luminous form in azal (timeless state) and then He gave them the material form.
This also means that the Universal Soul is a light, which comes into existence from the spiritual dissolution of the universe and the existents, and this fact is not outside the explanation of the abovementioned verse.
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