A Present to Kings — Page 76
( 76 ) land of flowers. Since Cashmere like Syria was a land of flowers, the Jews in memory of their original home appear to have given to the new country of their adoption the name of Casir (or Like-Sir) which was gradually corrupted into. Cashir and Cashmere. In short, the Promised Messiah proved the fact of the natural death of Jesus by the most convincing arguments and even pointed out the whereabouts of his tomb, after which there remained not a single proof for the support of the Christian faith. Because once the death of Jesus is established, his atonement and sonship at once fall to the ground. Similarly, in many other ways the Promised Messiah pointed out the hollowness of the Christian faith and collected such a mass of materials as removed all difficulties on the part of the Muslims to get the better of the Christians, provided that the Muslims abandoned their stiffness and obstinacy and joined the standard of the accredited messenger of God. May. God soon bring that day, so that Islam may reappear in the world in its original splendour. The method which the Promised Messiah has laid down for discussions with the Christians is so powerful and effective that no Christian can ever face the same and the fact has been made known to the whole world by the Christian Missionaries themselves. One of my friends,. Sheikh Abdur Rahman Moulvi Fazil, whom I had sent to Egypt for missionary purposes and also in order to complete his education in Arabic, reported that a certain Arab once came to him and said that the Christian Missionaries gave him a good deal of trouble. He therefore wanted to be told some argument with which he might easily defeat the Christians. My friend gave himn the following argument: that there was no evidence forthcoming from the New Testament which proved that Jesus died upon the cross, rather that the New Testament went to prove that. Jesus came down from the cross alive. My friend made him get by heart all the necessary references. The Arab then went to a leading missionary and said that while the Christians believed that Jesus died upon the cross and thus atoned for their sins, the fact was that Jesus came down alive from the. Li