Life of Ahmad — Page 678
JESUS as IN INDIA as 678 referred first to the Gospels themselves. Jesus as remained on the Cross only for a few hours, his bones were not broken. Blood flowed from the spear wound. Meeting his disciples after the Crucifixion, he travelled to Galilee, ate bread and meat, showed his wounds to his disciples and stayed a night with the disciples at Emmans—all these events show that Jesus as did not die on the cross, that his body retained its mortal character and that it had undergone no change. Medical treatises state that a special ointment was prepared to heal the wounds of Jesus as , giving even its prescription 164. The Muslim scriptures definitely lay down that Jesus as died a natural death 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 where the fair name of Jesus as or truth is concerned. In his reconstruction of the story of Jesus as , in reshaping, as it were, this historical and illustrious figure, Ahmad as brushes aside all irrelevant accretions of the ages from the beautiful face of Jesus as so that, through the kindness of an humble servant of the Holy Prophet sa 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 all. 164 It is interesting to note here that in July 1899, Hakim Muhammd Husain of Lahore advertised in illustrated handbills and posters the uses of Marham-e-‘ I s a , the ointment mentioned in old medical books as having been prepared to heal the wounds of Jesus as. He actually prepared the ointment at Lahore and sold it on business lines. But the Christian missionaries could not bear it. The Civil & Military News of Ludhiana, dated November 15th, wrote against it. They approached the D. C. Lahore, who banned the publication of the advertisement (Order dated 19th October 1899). He treated its distribution and publication as a public nuisance, because it offended the Christians. The Mush i r-e-Hind , Sialkot, condemned this action of the missionaries and advised them to write instead a reasoned refutation, if they could, of Ahmad’s as contention that the ointment was made for Jesus as. The case went to the Chief Court but the Judge did not go into this aspect of the question.