The Alleged Poisoning of Muhammad

By Abdullah Smith

[Part I] [Part II]

All praises are due to Allah and blessings on the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him. Today, Christian missionaries are using fabricated Hadiths to attack Islam; they are seriously misquoting the Quran, and claiming that Muhammad was a false prophet because he was “poisoned”.

We shall prove that Muhammad was not false for consuming the poison; he’s actually a greater Prophet to Jesus for making prophecies about the future. Jesus hardly made any prophecies; he only preached the Kingdom of God and made several false prophecies in the Bible.

Consider the following facts that prove Muhammad was true: 

(1)   The Bible says false prophets can perform miracles (Matt. 24:24), the Prophet Muhammad’s greatest miracle was a Book, the Holy Quran.

(2)   John the Baptist performed no miracles (John 10:41), yet he was a true Prophet.

(3)   Jesus was poisoned on the cross; he was a true Prophet. 

(4)   Many true Prophets were killed (Matt. 23:7), but they were still true Prophets.

(5)   The Prophets of the Bible are guilty of major sins, e.g. incest, fornication, drunkenness, nudity, and they were True Prophets!

(6)   There are pre-Islamic predictions of Muhammad (peace be upon him)

Let us discuss the facts we have presented so far. The Bible says that even false prophets can perform miracles, the Israelite prophets did miracles, but the Prophet Muhammad’s miracle is the Holy Quran.

Most of the miracles of the previous Prophets were of a physical nature, whereas the greatest miracle of Muhammad (peace be upon him) is intellectual. We are referring to the Qur’ân. Perhaps the reason for this is that this miracle is for the lasting Message and must remain visible to all insightful people of every generation until the Day of Judgment. The miracles of the other Prophets have passed into history; no one experienced them except for those that were present at that time. The miracle of the Qur’ân, however, remains until the Day of Judgment. [1]

John the Baptist was a true Prophet but performed no miracles:

And many resorted unto him, and said, John did no miracle: but all things that John spake of this man were true. (John 10:41)

The baptism of John, whence was it? from heaven, or of men? And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven; he will say unto us, Why did ye not then believe him? But if we shall say, Of men; we fear the people; for all hold John as a prophet.  (Matthew 21:25-26)

Yet the Prophet Muhammad performed several miracles, by the power of God.

Narrated 'Abdullah:

We used to consider miracles as Allah's Blessings, but you people consider them to be a warning. Once we were with Allah's Apostle on a journey, and we ran short of water. He said, "Bring the water remaining with you." The people brought a utensil containing a little water. He placed his hand in it and said, "Come to the blessed water, and the Blessing is from Allah." I saw the water flowing from among the fingers of Allah's Apostle, and no doubt, we heard the meal glorifying Allah, when it was being eaten (by him). (Sahih Bukhari, Volume 4, Book 56, Number 779)

Narrated Ibn Masud:

During the lifetime of Allah's Apostle the moon was split into two parts; one part remained over the mountain, and the other part went beyond the mountain. On that, Allah's Apostle said, "Witness this miracle." (Sahih Bukhari, Volume 6, Book 60, Number 387)

Let us discuss the poisoning of Jesus. According to the Gospels, Jesus was given a sponge full of vinegar, and immediately died seconds later.

Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a spunge with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it to his mouth. When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost. (John 19:29-30)

This proves Jesus was poisoned, the vinegar is supposed to have stimulating effects, yet it killed Jesus instantly!

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The Bible confesses that Jesus was a repentant sinner:

John did baptize in the wilderness, and preach the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins. (Mark 1:4)

Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him. (Matthew 3:13)

The Bible degrades the Prophets of God by vilification:

For a Muslim, many of the claims to be found in the Bible with regard to the prophets of God, and even God himself, are monstrous and preposterous. One is hard pressed to find a single prophet or messenger who was not a drunkard, an idolater, an adulterer, guilty of incest, a liar, and so forth. The Bible practically overflows with such stories from almost every Tom, Dick, and Harry. The messengers of God are even made to be guilty of multiple cases of adultery and worse. Abraham (pbuh) is alleged to be a liar and worse (Genesis 12:13). Noah (pbuh) a drunkard (Genesis 9:21). Lot (pbuh) a drunkard and guilty of incest (Genesis 19:30-38). Solomon (pbuh) a worshipper of idols in his old age (1 Kings 4-9), King David (pbuh) commits adultery with Uriah's wife and then murdered her husband (2 Samuel 11:3-4,15-18), David's son Ammon is guilty of incest and the rape of his half sister (2 Samuel 13:14). Aaron (pbuh) fashions an idol (the golden calf) for the Jews to worship (Exodus 32:1-4), to name but a very few of the many allegations to be found in the current Bible. (Misha’al Ibn Abdullah Al-Kadhi, What Did Jesus Really Say? [online Source]

Strangely, Christians defend the false portrayal of God and His prophets, yet have the audacity to charge the Prophet Muhammad with falsehood!

Here is a brief summary:

Noah got drunk, Lot committed incest, Moses was a murderer, Aaron built the calf, David committed adultery, and Solomon was guilty of idol-worship. Yet the Prophet Muhammad is not guilty of any of these crimes!

Was Muhammad poisoned?

Christian missionaries forge their own interpretations to divert Believers away from Islam, the solution to mankind’s problems. The Holy Quran is absolutely free of rubbish and obscene material. The Prophets of God are respected in the highest level; Christians do not discredit their prophethood for corruption and sin, yet they discredit the Prophet Muhammad for “eating poison”. Yet the biographies of Muhammad are clear that he lived for many years after consuming the poison. The Prophet displayed tremendous energy after eating the poison, showing that the poison had no effect on him. The Prophet detected the poison whereas the companions failed to detect it.

The Prophet lived for four years after the poison!

Once the Holy Prophet (Sallallaho alaihe wasallam) was given food mixed with poison to eat. He who ate it first expired, but the Holy Prophet (Sallallaho alaihe wasallam) lived for four years even after taking that food. That food told the Holy Prophet (Sallallaho alaihe wasallam): There is poison in me.  [1]

The Prophet showed tremendous energy before his death, the poison had no effect on him. When the Prophet conquered Mecca, he was fasting!

AbuBakr ibn AbdurRahman reported on the authority of a Companion of the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him): I saw the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) commanding the people while he was travelling on the occasion of the conquest of Mecca not to observe fast. He said: Be strong for your enemy. The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) fasted himself. (Sunan Abu-Dawud, Book 13, Number 2358)

Where did the Prophet acquire the strength to fast? He was truly a Prophet of God because he continued to fast during Ramadan!

The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) used to count the days in Sha'ban in a manner he did not count any other month; then he fasted when he sighted the new moon of Ramadan; but if the weather was cloudy he counted thirty days and then fasted. (Narrated Aisha Ummul Mu'minin:, Sunan Abu-Dawud, [2]

The Prophet even had the strength to destroy the idols.

Most Meccans converted to Islam, and Muhammad destroyed the idols in the Kaaba. Henceforth the pilgrimage would be a Muslim pilgrimage and the shrine a Muslim shrine. [1]

Needles to say, the companions of the Prophet helped him destroy the idols because there were over 300 of them!

According to Aisha, the Prophet used to heal himself using the Quran:

Whenever Allah's Apostle became ill, he used to recite the Muawidhatan and blow his breath over himself (after their recitation) and rubbed his hands over his body. So when he was afflicted with his fatal illness. I started reciting the Muawidhatan and blowing my breath over him as he used to blow and made the hand of the Prophet pass over his body. (Narrated by Aisha, Sahih Bukhari, [2]

There are past instances where the Holy Prophet became sick, and was healed by God, so obviously the poison did not to affect him.

Pre-Islamic Predictions of Muhammad:

The Jews expected the Last Prophet to descend from Ishmael; he would destroy idol-worship and restore the true and pure worship of God. The following account reports the circumstances surrounding the conversion of the erudite rabbi Abdullah bin Salam to Islam:

I was told the story of Abdullah bin Salam, a learned Rabbi, by one of his family. He said: “When I heard about the Apostle I knew by his descriptions, name, and the time at which he appeared that he was the one we were waiting for, and I rejoiced greatly thereat, though I kept silent about it until the Apostle came to Madinah [after the Hijrah). When he stayed in Quba’ among the Banu ‘Amr bin ‘Auf [tribe] a man came with the news while I was working at the top of a palm-tree and my aunt Kahlida bint al-Harith was sitting below. When I heard the news I cried ‘Allahu Akbar’ and my aunt said, ‘Good gracious, if you had heard that [Prophet] Moses bin ‘Imran had come you could not have made more fuss!’ Indeed, aunt, ‘I said, ‘he is the brother of Moses and follows his religion, being sent with the same mission’. She asked, ‘Is he really the Prophet who we have been told will be sent at this very time?’ And she accepted my assurance that he was. Straightway I went to the Apostle and became a Muslim, and when I returned to my house I ordered them to do the same”.

‘Abdullah bin Salam took refuge in the Prophet’s house, for he trusted not his own people, because he believed they would lie against him. When the Jews came to the house of the Prophet he asked them about ‘Abdullah’s standing among them:

They replied: “He is our chief, the son of our chief; our rabbi and our learned man.” [Abdullah narrates] when they said this I emerged [from the Prophet’s house] and said: “O Jews, fear God and accept what he has sent to you. For by God you know that he is the Apostle of God!

This narration from the life of Abdullah bin Salam provides a good “summary” of the facts surrounding the knowledge of the Prophet to come [Muhammad] and his description in the Holy Scriptures.

(Source: Ibn Ishaq’s Biography of the Prophet quoted in Faisal Siddiqui, The Bible’s Last Prophet, pp. 104-105)

Was Jesus Poisoned?

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Jesus was born into a very troubled stage of the Roman Empire, when thousands of crucifixions were taking place each week. The military leader Judas of Galilee (6 CE) founded the Zealot sect that determined to destroy the Roman government, the Gospels describe the Roman occupation as very peaceful, yet the opposite was true according to historians. The Pharisee leader Judas of Galilee caused a rebellion against Roman taxes in 6 CE, and the self-claimed “Messiah” Bar Kochba (132-135 CE) caused another insurrection. The Zealots were carrying out assassinations on a daily basis, dispatching groups that murdered Roman officials and caused political uprising, they were known as the Sicarii, or dagger-men. There is a possibility the Romans considered Jesus a political leader disguised as a spiritual teacher, the Gospels record at least two disciples of Jesus were Zealots, so the Romans had good reason to suspect Jesus. They were Simon and Judas Iscariot; both carried swords and traveled with Jesus.

These are the twelve he appointed: Simon (to whom he gave the name Peter James son of Zebedee and his brother John (to them he gave the name Boanerges, which means Sons of Thunder Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James son of Alphaeus, Thaddaeus, Simon the Zealot and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him. (Mark 3:16-19)

The word Iscariot is a corruption of Sicarii. The disciples John and James are described as “sons of thunder”, which means they were Zealots, yet the Gospels are clear that Judas and Simon were undoubtedly Zealots.

The Zealots were opposed to Roman rule and sought to eliminate/destroy it by violent means; the portions of the Zealots who engaged in violence were called the Sicarii. Their activities included raids on Jewish settlements and eliminating Jewish collaborators, as well as inciting the Jews to fight Rome and each other if necessary. Josephus paints a very bleak picture of their murderous activities as they instituted a "reign of terror" in the build-up to the Temple's destruction. [1]

The New Testament was written much later but its narrative is set during those times. Some have speculated that the name of Jesus’ ' disciple Yehuda Ish-Kerayot (Judas Iscariot) means that he was a sicarius, "daggerman" - "Judas the Zealot". [2]

The Gospels portray Jesus as a spiritual teacher, the Romans eventually considered him a threat, and the Pharisees also wanted to kill Jesus for their own reasons. Jesus was sent to restore the Jewish Law (Matt. 5:17-20), and crucifixion was never his purpose (Matt. 9:13, 12:7, John 17:4). Yet the Romans suspected Jesus of political motives when he drove out the money changers at the Temple, causing disorder.

The Romans had a strong force near at hand, since it was the time of the annual festival and the feast of the Passover was approaching. The Romans who at that time of year were always ready for minor disturbances, were even more alert than usual. In addition, there were the temple police who guarded the sacred place. The entrance made by Jesus was so well-planned that the Roman soldiers were taken completely by surprise, and Jesus took over the control of the temple. (Muhammad Ataur-Raheem, Jesus Prophet of Islam, 1992 edition, p. 34)

The Jews expected the Messiah to destroy the Roman government; they considered Jesus a false prophet because he failed to liberate Palestine.

Jesus and his immediate followers were Pharisees. Jesus had no intention of founding a new religion. He regarded himself as the Messiah in the normal Jewish sense of the term, i.e. a human leader who would restore the Jewish monarchy, drive out the Roman invaders, set up an independent Jewish state, and inaugurate an era of peace, justice and prosperity (known as 'the kingdom of God,) for the whole world. Jesus believed himself to be the figure prophesied in the Hebrew Bible who would do all these things. He was not a militarist and did not build up an army to fight the Romans, since he believed that God would perform a great miracle to break the power of Rome. This miracle would take place on the Mount of Olives, as prophesied in the book of Zechariah. When this miracle did not occur, his mission had failed. He had no intention of being crucified in order to save mankind from eternal damnation by his sacrifice. He never regarded himself as a divine being, and would have regarded such an idea as pagan and idolatrous, an infringement of the first of the Ten Commandments. (Hyam Maccoby, The Problem of Paul)

The Pharisees expected the Messiah to restore the Davidic kingdom. Yet we must be grateful to Islam for destroying the Roman occupation after so many failed attempts by Jewish leaders (Judas of Galilee, Bar Kochba). The Prophet Muhammad foretold the conquest of Jerusalem and Constantinople! [1].

Concerning the trial of Jesus, the Pilate refused to crucify Jesus at first, he said “I find no fault in this man” (John 19:4) but eventually the Pilate sentenced Jesus and washed his hands (Matt. 27:24), signifying the innocence of Rome. The Gospel of Matthew records the Jews saying "Let his blood be on us and on our children!” the verse has been to justify many atrocities. The Romans only crucified for political charges, not religious charges, or blasphemy. The Jews had to press false charges against Jesus in order to get him crucified, though they knew the charges were false, the Pilate denied the charges altogether.

Jesus was condemned by the Pharisees for blasphemy, claiming to be God’s son, and working on the Sabbath. The Jews also insisted that Jesus claimed to be a political King, which is an acceptable charge, since the Romans abolished the Jewish monarchy.

Jesus was a man who was born into Jewish society in Galilee; he was not a divine being who descended from outer space in order to suffer death on behalf of mankind. If we want to know why Jesus was killed, we have to ask why a Jew from Galilee in those times might meet his end on a Roman cross.

Many Jews from Galilee died in the same way during this period. Judas of Galilee was a Jewish patriot who led an armed rebellion against the Romans. Many hundreds of his supporters were crucified by the Romans. At one time, while Jesus was a boy, four thousand Jews were crucified by the Romans for an insurrection against Roman taxes. Crucifixion was the cruel form of execution which the Romans used for rebels against their rule. Galilee was always a centre of rebellion, partly because it was not under direct Roman rule and, therefore, like Vichy France during the last World War, gave some scope for the organization of resistance.

The presumption is, therefore, that Jesus the Galilean who died on the cross did so for the same reason as the others: because he was a threat to the Roman occupation. The Gospels indeed tell us that this was the charge made against him. The actual charge, according to Luke was as follows, ‘We found this fellow perverting the nation, and, forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying that he himself is Christ a King’ (Luke 23:2). On his cross, the charge for which he was executed was affixed, according to Roman usage: it was that he claimed to be ‘King of the Jews’, a capital offence at a time when the Romans had abolished the Jewish monarchy. To ‘pervert the nation’ meant to disturb them from their allegiance to Rome. The use of the term ‘Christ’ (Messiah) here in its original political sense is interesting, for it shows that despite Christian editing of the Gospels, which ensured that the term was de-politicalized in almost every instance, editorial vigilance could occasionally slip. (Hyam Maccoby, The Mythmaker: Paul and the Invention of Christianity, pp. 46-47)

The Gospels indicate that Jesus was secretly poisoned; the passage speaks for itself. The Romans poisoned Jesus to avoid leaving his body over the Sabbath, which began at evening (John 19:31). According to the Torah, a man “shall not remain all night upon the tree”; they must bury him that same day.

Christian tradition reports Jesus as having died for the sis of the world shortly prior to Friday sunset, leading to the celebration of ‘Good Friday’. This also explains why the Jews were under pressure to expedite the death of the three crucified before sunset, for the Friday sunset ushered in the Jewish Sabbath (according to Hebraic lunar calendar, the day ends at sunset. Hence, Friday sunset heralds the beginning of Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath). The problem facing the Jews was that a crucified man can live for days on the cross…Most crucifixes were constructed with small seats, enough to partially bear the weight of the body in order to prolong the torture. (Dr. Lawrence B. Brown, The First and Final Commandment, p. 209)

Historically the Jews followed Pharisee leaders who claimed to be Messiah, they were Judas of Galilee (6 CE), Theudas (46 CE), and Bar Kochba (132-135 CE), so the Romans did not want to take any chances, they suspected Jesus and thereby poisoned him. There was no need to break his legs because they saw he was already dead by ingesting the poison (John 19:32-33). It took several days to die by crucifixion; the Romans knew Jesus would survive the cross if they did not poison him.

Crucifixion was a slow death. It usually lasted several days. Death followed from exhaustion, inability to respire property as a result of being in an upright position or attacks by wild animals.

In the year A.D. 297, by the order of Emperor Maximian, seven Christians at Samosata were subjected to various tortures and then crucified. According to Alban Butler, (5) in

Hipparchus [one of them], a venerable old man, died on the cross in a short time. James, Romanus, and Lollianus, expired the next day being stabbed by the soldiers while they hung on their crosses. Philotheus, Habibus and Paragrus, were taken down from their crosses while they were still alive. The emperor being informed that they were alive, commanded large nails to be driven into heads--by which they were at length dispatched.

There are a number of cases in which men were cruelly tortured, and then crucified head down, yet surviving for 24 hours or more. [*]  [*]

Scholars agree that no man could die within three hours, the Jews were probably ignorant of this fact, but the Romans were experts at crucifixion, they knew Jesus was alive, so they poisoned him.   The Pilate knew Jesus was harmless, yet he did not know about the poisoning that caused his death.

Jesus was a healthy man who traveled throughout Palestine and its cities. How could a healthy man die so fast?

Jesus went through all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and sickness. (Matthew 9:35)

After this, Jesus traveled about from one town and village to another, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom of God. The Twelve were with him, (Luke 8:1)

Even if Jesus was not poisoned, it’s impossible for him to die in three hours, the Gospels are clear that Jesus was very healthy.

Crucifixion was a slow death. It usually lasted several days. Death followed from   exhaustion, inability to respire properly 

as a result of being in an upright position or attacks by wild animals. Why did Jesus, who was a fit and healthy man 

used to walking the countryside for long distances, die so quickly in only a matter of a few hours? (online Source) 

Jesus was “filled with the Holy Spirit” on the cross, yet the poison killed him instantly, the Holy Spirit departed from his body immediately after the vinegar was consumed:

Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a spunge with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it to his mouth. When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost. (John 19:29-30)

There are only two alternatives to explain Jesus’ death, either he was crucified as a false prophet (Deu. 13:5), or he was saved by God and never crucified (Ps. 20:6). We have evidence to support the latter, God promised to save the Messiah from death (Ps. 20:6), He will never forsake the Messiah (Ps. 37:28), Christians will argue to the contrary that Jesus’ poisoning does not discredit his prophethood, and that he “died for their sins”, the Jews conspired to kill Jesus to prove he was false. But why do Christians discriminate Muhammad for eating poison when Jesus was also poisoned? In fact, the Bible confirms Jesus died instantly from the poison whereas Muhammad died four years later! The poison had such a grave effect on Jesus that he cried out:

And Jesus cried with a loud voice, and gave up the ghost. And the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom. (Mark 15:36-38)

Why didn’t Jesus refuse the vinegar? Why didn’t he spit out the poison? He obviously did not know it was poisoned, so therefore he was not All-knowing. Yet the Prophet Muhammad tasted the poison and immediately SPAT it out.

The Bible teaches that false prophets should be put to death (Deuteronomy 13:5, 18:19), so does this mean Jesus and Muhammad were poisoned false prophets? Absolutely not, even true Prophets were murdered (Matt. 23:27, Rom. 11:3). So if Jesus and Muhammad died from ingesting poison, they are still true Prophets!

Jesus was a Pharisee belonging to the Shammiate sect, and the Pharisees loyal to Jesus considered his death as martyrdom. Muslim scholars assert that Prophet Muhammad’s death was martyrdom.

It has been assumed by most scholars that Paul’s interpretation of the verse in Deuteronomy (i.e. that anyone hanged on a gibbet is under a curse) was part of contemporary Pharisee exegesis of that verse, and that consequently Paul took his basis for argument from the Pharisee stock, though he developed it in his own way. This, however, is an error. The idea that anyone hanged on a gibbet is under a curse was entirely alien to Pharisee thought, and the Pharisee teachers did not interpret the verse in Deuteronomy in this way. Many highly respected members of the Pharisee movement were crucified by the Romans, just like Jesus, and, far from being regarded as under a curse because of the manner of their death, they were regarded as martyrs. The idea that an innocent man would incur a curse from God just because he had been unfortunate enough to die an agonizing death on the cross was never part of Pharisee thinking, and only a deep contempt for the Judaism of the Pharisees has led so many scholars to assume that it was. The Pharisees never thought that God was either stupid or unjust, and he would have to be both to put a curse on an innocent victim. (Hyam Maccoby, The Mythmaker: Paul and the Invention of Christianity, p. 67)

 A hadith sherif, which our mother Aisha as-Siddiqa (radi-Allahu anha) related, says “I suffer the pain of the poisonous meat I ate at Khaibar. Because of that poison my aorta almost fails to function now”. This hadith sheriff shows that, in addition to prophethood, Allahu tal’ala has given the status of martyrdom to Muhammad the Highest of Mankind (alaihi salam).  (Waqf Ikhlas, The Sunni Path, p. 78)

 The fact that Allah protected the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) from dying from the poison right away and had him live long enough in order to finish his duty of spreading the message of Islam and then Allah had the Prophet die from the poison four years later so that the Prophet could die as a martyr, which is the most honorable death that a person in Islam could have proves that he was a Prophet. (1)

If Jesus was crucified and poisoned, the Pharisees considered him a martyr, the Jews considered him a false prophet, and the Romans considered him a political threat. Yet Islam absolves Jesus from the charge of crucifixion; the Holy Quran says what actually happened – Jesus was not crucified at all. (4:157)

 The Stimulating Effects of Vinegar:

According to the Gospels, Jesus was given a sponge full of vinegar. The ancient civilizations believed that vinegar had stimulating effects on the body, the senses were aroused and the body twitched.

The Gospels show that Jesus immediately died after drinking the vinegar:

Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a spunge with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it to his mouth. When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost. (John 19:29-30)

This proves Jesus was poisoned, the vinegar is supposed to have stimulating effects, yet it killed Jesus instantly!

Crucifixion was a slow death. It usually lasted several days. Death followed from exhaustion, inability to respire property as

a result of being in an upright position or attacks by wild animals. Why did Jesus, who was a fit and healthy man used to 

walking the countryside for long distances, die so quickly in only a matter of a few hours? [1] 

Within the canonical texts certain clues may be found that shows that the biblical crucifixion was a less then transparent affair. In the Fourth Gospel Jesus, hanging

on the cross, says that he thirsts and is given a sponge allegedly soaked in vinegar. Tradition has it that this act was an act of derision, but in actuality vinegar - or soured wine – 

was a temporary stimulant with effects similar to smelling salts. It was often used to resuscitate exhausted galley slaves. For an exhausted man, a sniff or taste of vinegar 

would induce a restorative, rejuvenating effect. Surprisingly, in Jesus' case the effect is exactly the opposite. As soon as he tastes or inhales the sponge he expires. 

Corey Gilkes, The Crucifixion Demystified, [online Source]  

We must contend that Jesus was poisoned, and this does not disqualify his prophethood. Yet Muslims do not believe Jesus was crucified, so Christians are responsible for solving this dilemma. The only explanation is that Jesus was not crucified, (Al-Quran 4:157), therefore he was not poisoned.

The discovery of Gnostic texts at Nag Hammadi, Egypt unearthed a book called The Second Treatise of the Great Seth, where Jesus states:

I did not succumb to them as they had planned. But I was not afflicted at all. Those who were there punished me. And I did not die in reality but in appearance, lest I be put to shame by them because these are my kinsfolk. I removed the shame from me and I did not become fainthearted in the face of what happened to me at their hands. I was about to succumb to fear, and I suffered according to their sight and thought, in order that they may never find any word to speak about them. For my death, which they think happened, (happened) to them in their error and blindness, since they nailed their man unto their death. For their Ennoias did not see me, for they were deaf and blind. But in doing these things, they condemn themselves. Yes, they saw me; they punished me. It was another, their father, who drank the gall and the vinegar; it was not I. They struck me with the reed; it was another, Simon, who bore the cross on his shoulder. It was another upon Whom they placed the crown of thorns. But I was rejoicing in the height over all the wealth of the archons and the offspring of their error, of their empty glory. And I was laughing at their ignorance. The Treatise of the Great Seth [online Source]

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