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HARUN YAHYA

raised up again alive" (Surah Maryam:33). As a devout be-

liever and a messenger of Allah, the Prophet Jesus' (pbuh)
soul is immaculate. However, his environment was not im-
maculate, due to the unbelievers' irreligious behavior and
corrupt moral values. Indeed, our Lord reveals that they
were unclean because of their moral corruption:
O you who believe! The idolaters are unclean, so after this
year they should not come near the Sacred Mosque
[Masjid al-Haram] ... (Surat at-Tawba:28)
Therefore, purifying the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) means
his physical removal from their presence. Thus, Allah puri-

fied and protected him by raising the Prophet Jesus (pbuh)
to Himself.
The Egyptian scholar Khalil Herras offers the follow-
ing explanation regarding the wisdom of the term "purifica-
tion":
The purification of Jesus (pbuh) from the unbelievers
comes about with his salvation from their wicked snares.
This cannot take place with the death and burial of Jesus
(pbuh), but only by his ascension in life to the heavens,
for his foes could have inflicted torture on his body, as
they did with the person they believed to be him … 61
As Hamdi Yazar of Elmali set out in his commentary,
the Prophet Jesus' (pbuh) purification from the unbelievers
is manifested by his ascent: