Jesus In India — Page 3
PUBLISHER'S NOTE FROM THE EARLIER EDITION XV be divided into two parts, the first to comprise as many as ten chap- ters plus an epilogue, and the second part to contain additional proofs of Jesus' journey to India and a comparative evaluation of the teachings of Islam and Christianity establishing the truth of Islam as well as of his own claim to be the Promised Messiah. It seems he couldn't find time for further research on this subject, but he made good his resolve by ushering in a spiritual rebirth of Islam in its pristine purity, founding the dynamic Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at worldwide and writing not one but more than eighty books concerning the truth of Islam, his own claim as the Promised Messiah and Mahdi and the life and death of Jesus. Written in 1899, and partly serialized in Review of Religions in 1902 and 1903, the book itself was posthumously published on 20th November 1908. The first English translation, by the late Qazi Abdul Hamid, was published in 1944. On instructions from Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad, Khalifatul-Masih IV, Imam of the worldwide Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at, the present edition has been thoroughly revised by Professor Muhammad Ali Chaudhry, Wakilut Tasnif, Rabwah. As supporting evidence of the theses advanced in this book, relevant excerpts from different authors and researchers are given at the end as appendix. These excerpts do not form part of the original text which, in the course of translation, has been kept inviolate and even misprints, if any, have not been corrected. The correct version has, however, been given in footnotes only after permission by our august Imam, Hazrat Khalifatul-Masih IV. The author's footnotes are indicated by asterisks, while the translator's footnotes have been numbered 1,2,3, etc. Since different editions of the Bible differ in the serial numbers