Is there any statement, clarity, or proof greater than this!
"I tell you, in that night there will be two in one bed; one will be taken and the other left."1
There are two. The ones intended in the narration are Simon of Cyrene and Judas Iscariot. The one who offered himself for sacrifice is Simon, from him is peace. When Allah knew the loyalty in his heart, He clothed him with the robe of distinction and cast his image upon his opponent.
"For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways."2
"This Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven."3
"The seer who saw in two kinds of sight, one a true sight and the other a false sight, when those heard that he was alive and had been seen by her, they did not believe."4
How did they see him alive when the people had killed him, tortured him, and crucified him!
So they got up and drove him out of the town, and brought him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, so that they could throw him down headlong. But he passed right through the crowd and went away. The phrase "mountain" came in the narration of the journey of John the Gnostic, and here also, notice the similitude, O believer, for this is what we mean by pointing to the phrase.