The texts on Crucifixion and how to refute them:

1.     Three days prior to his death, the person who was crucified on the Cross cried with a loud voice, saying: “ Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?[1] That is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” This implies dissatisfaction with Predestination and rejection of Allah’s Ordinance. Jesus (peace be upon him) is free from this. You say Christ (peace be upon him) came down to prefer mankind to himself, how then do you narrate on his behalf what contradicts that?  This is apart from your narration in your Torah that when Abraham. Isaac, Jacob, Moses and Aaron (peace be upon them) were on the deathbed they were happily looking forward to meeting their Lord. Christ, you allege, is the son of Allah; therefore he should have been more steadfast and enduring than they. Since he did not prove so, the crucified person must have been someone else.[2] Yes, it is so, for if Christ (peace be upon him) had come to be crucified, as you allege, he would not have sent such a cry. We see a lot of people that are executed while they are patient and completely firm because they are loyal to their causes. Let alone the fighters in the cause of Allah, who race in the battlefields while they are aware of facing death and inevitable destruction, yet they offer themselves happily. 

2.     When Jesus learned that the conspiracy against him was imminent he told his Disciples to get ready to resist, saying: “he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one.”[3] We ask here what for was such resistance? What for were the swords? If he intended to offer himself to be crucified, why did he ask his Disciples to resist?[4]

3.     Jesus (peace be upon him) prayed to Allah (SWT) to save him from those who were seeking to kill or crucify him, saying: “Father, save me from this hour.”[5] If Jesus had actually come for the sake of “Redemption” why was he impatient and afraid of being attacked and killed by the Jews since that was the purpose for which he had come? Anyhow, his fear and impatience annul the Doctrine of (Crucifixion for Salvation).

4.     Christians depend in the matter of Salvation through   Crucifixion on such texts as: “Christ hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God.”[6]  But it is known that Christ did not surrender but was driven to crucifixion by force, according to the Gospels.[7]

5.     John said: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”[8] This text represents a great doctrine. It means that whoever does not believe in Salvation is a disbeliever. Yet, though a great pillar of Christianity, it is not mentioned by Matthew, Mark and John in their Gospels. This leads us to only three possibilities, and anyone who believes in the doctrine should choose one of them.

·        John was faithful and trustful in transmitting this Doctrine, whereas Matthew, Mark and Luke were not trustworthy because they neglected the teachings of heaven, and thus they should not be trusted or relied on henceforth. 

·        Matthew, Mark and Luke were trustworthy and reliable because of their number (3 to 1), in which case John would be untrustworthy, bearing in mind that he was the last to write a Gospel in the beginning of the second century AD. If what John mentioned had been true, Mark would have been more entitled to mention this secret since he was the first to write a Gospel, or Matthew, or Luke.

·        This item is just a personal opinion of John and his followers and cannot be considered a doctrine.[9] 

6.     If Jesus (peace be upon him) had not come but to be crucified, why did he say to the person who would betray him: “woe unto that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed”?[10] On the other hand, we have what contradicts this in that Christ (peace be upon him) promised his twelve Disciples happiness,[11] and his promise must be true, and a would-be-happy person cannot be so wicked. Since Judas was one of the twelve Disciples one of the following points must be true:

·        Judas did not betray Jesus (peace be upon him)

·        Christ (peace be upon him) did not tell the truth.

·        Your Scripture has been changed and corrupted.

7.     Why did Jesus (peace be upon him) say to his Disciples the night he was arrested: “My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death”?[12]

8.     Why did he spend the night praying, supplicating and seeking help to be saved from those who were seeking to crucify him[13]: “Father, save me from this hour.”[14] “and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.”[15]

9.     He denounced the intention of the Jews to kill him, saying: “Why go ye about to kill me?”[16]

10. He told them that they would not be able to do that: “Then said Jesus unto them, Yet a little while am I with you, and then I go unto him that sent me. Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, thither ye cannot come.”[17]

11. He also said to them: “And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him.”[18]

12. He challenged them, saying: “For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.”[19] But the Jews saw the crucified person arrested, hung, kicked, struck and spitted on. Does this not indicate that the person that was arrested and crucified was other than Christ; otherwise, Christ’s words would have been untrue, for how did he predict his own safety while the opposite happened?