An Introduction to the Hidden Treasures of Islam — Page 233
233 In the same way, as a Prophet of God, the Promised Messiah as knows the ways in which God deals with His creatures and Chosen Messengers. He lives on a higher plain and gifted as he is with Divine Light within himself, he throws lights on things which are too deep, being obscured by time, from the reach of ordinary human intellect. Other people seem to grope in the dark, but with the spiritual torch at his disposal, he at once illumines the sacred past and the truth dawns upon him as a seeker after truth as he begins to read His wonderful works. His treatment of the subject is masterly. He separates the chaff from the grain with an ease which fills one with wonder. He corrects all and spares none whether it be an apostle, a religious historian or a modern traveller. If and when the fair name of Jesus or truth is concerned in his reconstruction of the story of Jesus in reshaping as it were, this historical and illustrious figure, the Promised Messiah as brushes aside all irrelevant accretions of the ages from the beautiful face of Jesus so that, through the kindness of a humble servant of the Holy Prophet of Islam, it shines forth once again with the Divine lustre which characterises all the prophets of God. Blessed are those who believe in them. In Life of Ahmad , edition of 2008, pages 683-684, A. R. Dard ra says: John Noel, in his article entitled “The Heavenly High Snow Peaks of Kashm i r,” published in the Asia Magazine of October 1930, says: Immensely strong are these picturesque, broad-shouldered Kashm i r i peasants and yet docile and meek in temperament. One thing about them strikes you with enormous force. They seem more perfectly Jewish than the purest Jews, you have ever seen, not because they wear a flowing cloak like the dress that conforms to your ideas of Biblical garments, but because their faces have the Jewish cast of features. The curious coincidence, or is it a coincidence? There is a strong tradition in Kashmir of connection with the Jews. For a good many years, there have been afloat in this land, rumours that Christ did not really die upon the Cross but was let down and disappeared to seek lost tribes. He came to Kashm i r, Lad a kh and Tibet and died