Jesus (peace be upon him) was not resurrected from the dead:

1.     Jesus (peace be upon him) says to the Disciples: “Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have. And when he had thus spoken, he shewed them his hands and his feet.”[1] What was the man trying to prove? That he had been resurrected from the dead? — That he was a spirit? — What has the demonstration of hands and feet to do with resurrection? "It is I MYSELF!" Can't you see, you fools? "For a SPIRIT"— any spirit, has "NO flesh and bones, as YOU see ME have!" This is an axiomatic, self-evident truth. You do not have to convince anybody, whether Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Jew, Atheist or Agnostic. Everyone will acknowledge without any proof that A SPIRIT HAS NO FLESH AND BONES!

2.     The disciples were thinking that he had returned from the dead, that he had been resurrected, and if so he would be in a spiritual form — A SPIRIT! And Jesus is telling them that he is NOT that — he is not a spirit — NOT resurrected! An argumentative person asks: "Who says that resurrected persons will be spiritualized?" I say, "Jesus!" He asks: "Where?" I say: "In the Gospel of Luke; go back four chapters from where Jesus said: "A spirit has no flesh and bones.”[2] He proved to them by another piece of evidence that he was not a spirit by eating bread, fish and honey, for spirits do not eat: “And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb. And he took it, and did eat before them.”[3]

3.     Why did Christ (peace be upon him) not say that he was resurrected from the dead? Why did he not declare that? On the contrary, he said: “I am not yet ascended to my Father.”[4] The soul of a dead person must go to Allah (SWT).

4.     John confirms that the disciples did not know that Christ would rise from the dead. When Mary Magdalene went to tell the disciples of what she had seen concerning the rise of Christ from the dead, Peter and John hurried to the sepulchre: “Then went in also that other disciple, which came first to the sepulchre, and he saw, and believed. For as yet they knew not the scripture, that he must rise again from the dead. Then the disciples (Peter and John) went away again unto their own home.”[5] This is what the Gospel of John declares, but the Gospels of Mark, Matthew and Luke do not mention a dialogue between Christ and his Disciples where Christ prophesied to be killed and then rise from the dead. These gospels say: “And he began to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders, and of the chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.”[6]

The story of the dialogue between Christ and his Disciples in this form means that the rise of Christ from the dead has become an unquestionable fact, for the Gospels mention that Christ said that openly. But if we understand that the narrations of the Resurrection that were told by Mary Magdalene were to Peter—Head of the Disciples—incredible speech like “hallucination”, we inevitably conclude that the dialogue between Christ and his Disciples and that he informed them of his rise from the dead did not happen at all, but it was additions “inserted into the Gospel.”[7]

What confirms this is that when Christ appeared to the Disciples “they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they had seen a spirit.” Why were they terrified and affrighted since he had informed them that he would rise from the dead? Why would Thomas, one of the Disciples, not believe until he saw the print of the nails, as he said: “Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, … and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe.” Why do you not believe, O Thomas, since Christ (peace be upon him) has informed you openly that he will rise from the dead?