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place. Therefore, those who maintain that the
Prophet Jesus (pbuh) was killed are only speculat-
ing. In his commentary, al-Tabari stated that the unbeliev-
ers have no sure information about this event:
The Jews who debate over Jesus (pbuh) are unsure of
whether he was killed or not. What they know about this
issue is based merely on assumptions. They know very
little about whether the person they killed was Jesus
(pbuh) or not. They merely imagine that the person they
killed was Jesus (pbuh), as they had intended. They very
definitely did not kill him … because they continue to
speculate about his death. 37

The fact that they have doubts shows that the unbe-
lievers did not achieve their goal. Had they really killed the
Prophet Jesus (pbuh), there would be no room for doubt
and they would be certain that they had succeeded. Let us
consider this with an example. Someone who opens fire in
order to kill someone else will know whether the intended
person has actually been killed or not. Alternatively, there
needs to be very exceptional circumstances for there to be