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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:
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