Christianity - A Journey from Facts to Fiction — Page 107
Revival or Resurrection? 107 The founder of the Ahmadiyya Community, Hadrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad as of Qadian declared about a hundred years ago that Jesus as , a true prophet of God, was delivered from the cross as was implied in his earlier discourses. For the first time in the history of Islam, Hadrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, divinely guided as he was, lifted the mystical veil from the brilliant realities of Jesus’ as life. It was he who declared in the face of the bitter resentment of the majority of the orthodox Muslims that Jesus as had neither died upon the cross, nor ascended bodily to heaven, but was miracu- lously delivered alive from the cross in keeping with God’s promise. Thereafter Jesus as migrated in search of the lost sheep of the House of Israel as he himself had promised. By following the probable route of the migration of Israeli tribes one can safely assume that he must have travelled through Afghanistan on his way to Kashmir and other parts of India where the presence of Israeli tribes was reported. There is strong historical evidence that the peoples of both Afghanistan and Kashmir have stemmed from migrant Jewish tribes. Hadrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad revealed that Jesus as ulti- mately died and was buried in Srinagar, Kashmir. When Ahmadis put forward this explanation as a plausible and realistic solution to the disappearance of Jesus’ as body from the country of his birth, many a time they are met with the rebuttal that even given that he was delivered from the cross alive, it is extremely far-fetched that he should have taken the hazardous journey from Judea to Kashmir. Hearing this rebuttal Ahmadis are left wondering as to which distance is longer, the one from Palestine to Kashmir or the one from the Earth to the farthest