In The Name of The One And Only GOD.  The peace be upon you, everyone.


"The holy ones and prophets cry: "O Sir, gave you not, then, good doctrine to men? Wherefore, then, be there so many errors?" God answers: 'I have given good doctrine to men, but while men have been given up to vanity Satan has sowed errors to bring to nothing my Law.' The holy ones say: 'O Sir, we will disperse these errors by destroying men."

"God answers: 'Do not so, for the faithful are so closely joined to the infidels by kinship that the faithful will be lost with the infidel. But wait until the Judgment, for at that time shall the infidels be gathered by my angels and shall be cast out with Satan into hell, while the good faithful ones shall come to my kingdom.' Surely, many infidel fathers shall beget faithful sons, for whose sake God waits for the world to repent."  [Excerpted from Chapter 133].


Chapter 42
Jesus confessed, and said the truth: "I am not the Messiah." They said: "Are you Elijah or Jeremiah, or any of the ancient prophets?" Jesus answered: "No." Then said they: "Who are you? Say, in order that we may give testimony to those who sent us." Then Jesus said: "I am a voice that cries through all Judea, and cries: "Prepare you the way for the messenger of the Lord," even as it is written in Esaias;."



Pay close attention to the first sentence in the first paragraph.  Prophet 'Isa [Jesus, PBUH] is not saying He, PBUH, is not Christ/Messiah, (anointed), but that He PBUH, is not the Messiah (anointed), that all the world expects.

Chapter 97
Jesus answered: "As God lives, in whose presence my soul stands, I am not the Messiah whom all the tribes of the earth expect, even as God promised to our father Abraham, saying: "In your seed will I bless all the tribes of the earth." But when God shall take me away from the world, Satan will raise again this accursed sedition, by making the impious believe that I am God and son of God, whence my words and my doctrine shall be contaminated, insomuch that scarcely shall there remain thirty faithful ones: whereupon God will have mercy upon the world, and will send his Messenger for whom he has made all things who shall come from the south with power, and shall destroy the idols with the idolaters who shall take away the dominion from Satan which he has over men. He shallbring with him the mercy of God for salvation of them that shall believe in him, and blessed is he who shall believe his words.

"Unworthy though I am to untie his hosen, I have received grace and mercy from God to see him." Then answered the priest, with the governor and the king, saying: "Distress not yourself, O Jesus, holy one of God, because in our time shall not this sedition be any more, seeing that we will write to the sacred Roman senate in such wise that by imperial decree none shall any more call you God or son of God." Then Jesus said: "With your words I am not consoled, because where you hope for light darkness shall come; but my consolation is in the coming of the Messenger, who shall destroy every false opinion of me, and his faith shall spread and shall take hold of the whole world, for so has God promised to Abraham our father. And that which gives me consolation is that his faith shall have no end, but shall be kept inviolate by God."

The priest answered: "After the coming of the Messenger of God shall other prophets come?" Jesus answered: "There shall not come after him true prophets sent by God, but there shall come a great number of false prophets, whereat I sorrow. For Satan shall raise them up by the just judgment of God, and they shall hide themselves under the pretext of my gospel." Herod answered: "How is it a just judgment of God that such impious men should come?"

Jesus answered: "It is just that he who will not believe in the truth to his salvation should believe in a lie to his damnation. Wherefore I say to you, that the world has ever despised the true prophets and loved the false, as can be seen in the time of Micaiah and Jeremiah. For every like loves his like."

Then said the priest: "How shall the Messiah be called, and what sign shall reveal his coming?" Jesus answered: "The name of the Messiah is admirable, for God himself gave him the name when he had created his soul, and placed it in a celestial splendour. God said: "Wait Muhammad; for your sake I will to create paradise, the world, and a great multitude of creatures, whereof I make you a present, insomuch that whoever shall bless you shall be blessed, and whoever shall curse you shall be accursed. When I shall send you into the world I shall send you as my Messenger of salvation, and your word shall be true, insomuch that heaven and earth shall fail, but your faith shall never fail." Muhammad is his blessed name." Then the crowd lifted up their voices, saying: "O God send us your Messenger: O Muhammad, come quickly for the salvation of the world!"


Chapter 195
"'They that shall believe in me shall not die eternally, for through my word they shall perceive God within them, and therefore shall work out their salvation. What is death but an act which nature does by commandment of God? As it would be if one held a bird tied, and held the cord in his hand; when the head wills the bird to fly away, what does it? Assuredly it commands naturally the hand to open; and so straightway the bird flies away. "Our soul," as says the prophet David, "is as a sparrow freed from the snare of the fowler," when man abides under the protection of God. And our life is like a cord whereby nature holds the soul bound to the body and the sense of man. When therefore God wills, and commands nature to open, the life is broken and the soul escapes in the hands of the angels whom God has ordained to receive souls.   ~ Psalms 124:7  "Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped." 


"Let not, then, friends weep when their friend is dead; for our God has so willed. But let him weep without ceasing when he sins, for [so] the soul dies, seeing it separates itself from God, the true Life. If the body is horrible without its union with the soul, much more frightful is the soul without union with God, who with his grace and mercy beautifies and quickens it.' And having said this Jesus gave thanks to God; whereupon Lazarus said: 'Lord, this house belongs to God my creator, with all that he has given into my keeping, for the service of the poor. Wherefore, since you are poor, and have a great number of disciples, come you to dwell here when you please, and as much as you please, for the servant of God will minister to you as much as shall be needful, for love of God.' "

Comments:  What is meant by "to die eternally" is to enter into endless death -- separation from THE ONE GOD, LORD, of the worlds.  You have wasted your time in the world if your only interest was to spoil the material consciousness, by adorning and pampering the physical body. It seems that most people, will spend most of their life collecting material things -- which are ephemeral. These things are the falseness of the world (they rust, decay, break, die, wear out, expire, are stolen, moths eat them, et cetera) but people are 'convinced' of their value.

Some non-wealthy people and those of wealthy standards, are "attached" to these things even while they are being taken out of the world (at death / transition).  There is no desire to know of the permanent, Spiritual worlds, and the life that it presents. The meaning, is to die badly if one does not repent and change ones attitude / behavior.  One should also seek to be "indifferent," to the worldly (material) things. If that is too difficult for the moment, then at the very least, strive to maintain a balance, between the Spiritual and material. But by no means ignore, or neglect, the Spiritual being [soul / self].  This Chapter is pertinent to Chapter 122.  See also, Chapters 114,115, 141.  The theme of 'reincarnation' seems not to be widely, supported in the Bible.   

2:28.How can ye reject the faith in Allah?-- seeing that ye were without life, and He gave you life; then will He cause you to die, and will again bring you to life; and again to Him will ye return.   Yusuf Ali's Quran Translation

This type of discourse is disturbing to most people because death of any kind, is the last thing they would want to think about, or learn of. And therein is where they err, because they have no control over death.  All life, and death is the Will of Allah, The One GOD. 

"With Him are the keys of the unseen, the treasures that none knoweth but He. He knoweth whatever there is on the earth and in the sea. Not a leaf doth fall but with His knowledge: there is not a grain in the darkness (or depths) of the earth, nor anything fresh or dry (green or withered), but is (inscribed) in a record clear (to those who can read)."  "It is He who doth take your souls by night, and hath knowledge of all that ye have done by day: by day doth He raise you up again; that a term appointed be fulfilled; In the end unto Him will be your return; then will He show you the truth of all that ye did."  The Holy Qur'an, 006.059--006.060 (Al-Anaam [Cattle, Livestock])  A.Yusuf Ali; Translation.     

See The Holy Qur'an 34:33; 10:6  re: day and night.     [The Holy Qur'an 2:56, 95, 243, 258, 259; 3:154, 156, 185; 7:158; 16:65; 23:80, 99; 25:3; 29:57, 63; 30:50; 35:9; 39:42; 40:68; 44:8; 53:44; 57:2, 17 re: death and life]. ~ http://www.al-islam.org/quran/   


Chapter 198
Lazarus is given the gift of prophecy.  Then said Lazarus: 'Master, truly I say to you, I cannot conceive the penalty of which he is worthy who time after time sees the dead borne to the tomb and fears not God our creator. Such an one for the things of this world, which he ought entirely to forsake, offends his creator who has given him all.'  Then Jesus said to his disciples: 'You call me Master, and you do well, seeing that God teaches you by my mouth. But how will you call Lazarus? Truly he is here master of all the masters that teach doctrine in this world. I indeed have taught you how you ought to live well, but Lazarus will teach you how to die well. As God lives, he has received the gift of prophecy; listen therefore to his words, which are truth. And so much the more ought you to listen to him, as good living is vain if one die badly.'  Said Lazarus: 'O master, I thank you that you make the truth to be prized; therefore will God give the great merit.' Then said he who writes this: 'O master how speaks Lazarus the truth in saying to you "You shall have merit," whereas you said to Nicodemus that man merits nought but punishment? Shall you accordingly be punished of God?' Jesus answered: 'May it please God that I receive punishment of God in this World, because I have not served him so faithfully as I was bound to do.' 

"But God has so loved me, by his mercy, that every punishment is withdrawn from me, in so much that I shall only be tormented in another person. For punishment was fitting for me, for that men have called me God; but since I have confessed, not only that I am not God, as is the truth, but have confessed also that I am not the Messiah, therefore God has taken away the punishment from me, and will cause a wicked one to suffer it in my name, so that the shame alone shall be mine.

Comments: The wicked one made reference to, would be Judas Iscariot.


"Wherefore I say to you, my Barnabas, that when a man speaks of what God shall give to his neighbour let him say that his neighbour merits it: but let him look to it that, when he speaks of what God shall give to himself , he say: God will give me."   "And let him look to it that he say not, I have merit, because God is pleased to grant his mercy to his servants when they confess that they merit hell for their sins."   

http://www.omcesite.org/articles/rare.htm  -- a reference to initiation.



Comments:  It may seem redundant to do so but it is necessary, to take another look into the Messiah inference. Certain commentaries - see links below - state; that the Orthodox Jew's, were expecting two or three Messiah's -- an acknowledgment of "another Messiah," who was to be expected -- and that He Jesus PBUH was stating that He PBUH, is not "that Messiah," that all the tribes of the earth expect.   See also chapter 97, of this gospel, the first paragraph. Prophet Muhammad [PBUH] is announced by The Christ, Prophet 'Isa [Jesus, PBUH]; see The Holy Qur'an: 61:6.  Additionally, there is abundant mention of anointing in the Old Testament Bible; (re: anointed; Psalms 105:15; 1Kings 19:16; Exodus 28:41, 30:30; 1Sanuel 16:12,13; 2Corinthians 1:21; etc.).  Seyed Abul 'A'ala Maududi in his Tafsir ul Qur'an; The Meaning of The Qur'an, 61 as-saff, page 511, relates that the Prophet Elijah in 1Kings 19:15-16 was instructed to anoint Hazael to be king over Syria. And Jehu the son of Nimshi shalt thou anoint to be king over Israel: and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah shalt thou anoint to be prophet in thy room.  And he notes that their being commissioned by Allah amounted to their being anointed; None of these were anointed with oil.

Of course there will always be, in these times and prayerfully -- insha'Allah, beyond; the well intended choice of  becoming an "Initiate"; to strive righteously, to become a "Son of Man," "Anointed one,"  "Teacher of The Divine Word" of THE ONE AND ONLY GOD. (These things may be hidden in Daniel 9:25-26.)   

http://barnabas.net/

http://quranmalayalam.com/program/jesus/ch7.html ~  Chapter 7: The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Gospel of Barn p1



http://www.africawithin.com/massey/gml1_jesuschrist.htm ~  The Historical Jesus and Mythical Christ (Parts 1-3)