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2. The Semantic Twist:
To preserve the denial of Christ's death, Islamic commentators are forced to redefine mutawaffeeka as "to take you fully [while asleep]." However, everywhere else the text uses forms of wafat, it refers to literal physical death. Forcing a non-lethal definition uniquely onto Jesus is a desperate maneuver required only to conceal a glaring contradiction with Surah 4.
3. The Deception Fallacy:
Surah 4:157 claims "it was made to resemble him to them." This substitution theory asserts a deity deceived the world by making an innocent bystander look like Jesus to be crucified. This makes the deity the author of the global "illusion" of Christianity, punishing the disciples for believing the very visual evidence the deity manufactured.
The Quran Verse:
Surah 3:55
When Allah said, "O Jesus, indeed I will take you [mutawaffeeka - cause you to die] and raise you to Myself and purify you from those who disbelieve and make those who follow you superior to those who disbelieve until the Day of Resurrection."
The Relevant Source Text (Internal Contradiction)
Surah 4:157
And their saying, "Indeed, we have killed the Messiah, Jesus, the son of Mary, the messenger of Allah." And they did not kill him, nor did they crucify him; but was made to resemble him to them. And indeed, those who differ over it are in doubt about it. They have no knowledge of it except the following of assumption. And they did not kill him, for certain.
Surah 3 uses a word that historically and linguistically means "to cause to die" (wafat), aligning with the Christian belief that Jesus' earthly life ended at that point.
However, the later Surah 4 explicitly denies that Jesus was killed or crucified, creating an internal theological conflict regarding the fate of Christ.