Life of Ahmad — Page 682
JESUS as IN INDIA as 682 an orthodox Christian, professing the ordinary Christian belief in every respect. There is nothing in his narrative which goes against the recognised creed of Christianity. But he is convinced, on the authority of strong evidence, that Jesus as visited and travelled in the Eastern countries. We accept this historical fact; and it is with this and this purpose alone that the above quotations have been given here from his book 165. A t - T abar i Vol. 2, p. 739, (E. J. Brill 1881-1882) records the story of a stone on a grave bearing an inscription in a language which the Persians deciphered. It was to the effect that the grave was that of Jesus as , son of Mary as , who was buried on the top of a mountain. The following words of the Bhavesh Puran (an ancient Hindu scripture) are also worth recalling. Once Shalbahan, a Raja of Shuk country, went to a Himalayan top. He saw a holy man, dressed in white, sitting on a hill in the valley. The Raja asked him as to who he was. He replied with a smile, 'I am the son of God, born of a virgin. ' (Pareti Sarg Khand 3, Adhisya 2). 165 The Rev. Arthur Jeffery of the American University, Cairo, is absolutely wrong when he says: 'Notovitch made the journey take place before the baptism by John, but the Mirza apparently had forgotten the details of the story, as he makes the visit take place after Jesus as had recovered from swoon on the Cross'. ( The Moslem World of Today , Hodder &. Stoughton, London, p. 316).