Life of Ahmad — Page 677
as JESUS as IN INDIA 677 In short, guided by God in his wonderful powers of inference and research the Promised Messiah as , arrived towards the end of 1895 at the clear conclusion that Jesus as had come to India after the Crucifixion and that the tomb found in Kashmir was that of Jesus as and none else. He published a leaflet then, which is set out in his book Sat Bachan. On November 30th, 1898, he wrote and published a pamphlet entitled R a z-e- H aq i qat. By April, 1899, he had written a book, which he called Jesus In India. It was published on November 20th, 1908. It covered 105 pages. This book is a monument of research. It could not be published in Ahmad’s as lifetime because he intended to add a few more chapters which, however, he could not find time to write. In these publications 163 he proved from various sources that Jesus as did not die on the cross. He 163 I should like here to draw the attention of the reader to an important point: Jesus as was a Prophet of God and Ahmad as the author of these books was also a Prophet of God, and he claimed that God had sent him in the guise of all the Prophets, especially in the spirit and power of Jesus as , to regenerate mankind. Therefore he had the peculiar, and if I may say so, the exclusive advantage of being in a personal and privileged position to understand Jesus as aright. He was one with him in spirit. He had, in fact, met him and conversed with him on several occasions in his waking visions. Whatever he says is indeed based chiefly and primarily on his personal experiences. Hence he speaks with an authority which cannot be easily questioned or challenged. In the same way, as a Prophet of God, Ahmad as knows the ways in which God deals with His creatures and chosen messengers. He lives on a higher plane; and, gifted as he is with Divine light within himself, he throws light on things which are too deep, being obscured by time, for the reach of mere 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 a seeker after truth as he begins to read his wonderful works. His treatment of the subject is masterly.