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As Allah reveals in these verses,
those who sought to kill the Prophet
Jesus (pbuh) failed to achieve their goal,
because Allah protected and rescued
him by raising him to His Presence. The
words raafiu'ka and rafa'ahu that appear
in the verses come from the Arabic root
rafa'a, which means "to rise." Islamic
scholars interpret rafa'a as the opposite
of "being lowered." The Islamic scholar
Abu Musa al-Ash'ari interpreted Surah
Al 'Imran:55 together with Surat
an–Nisa':158, and wrote that: "There is a

consensus among the community of the
faithful [ijma' ummat] that Jesus (pbuh)
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was raised alive to the heavens." (Ijma'
ummat refers to the agreement on this
issue of those Islamic scholars who ex-
pounded upon Islamic law and lived
during the same century).
In interpreting these verses, the
great majority of Islamic scholars agree
that "Jesus (pbuh) did not die, but was
raised to Allah's Presence, and that this

ascension took place in both body and
soul." Examples of their opinions are
given below: