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35. Far East in about 1877. He calls Kashmir "the valley of eternal bliss" which may be regarded as an apt rendering in English of the Quranic words: ذَاتِ قَرَارٍ وَ مَعِينٍ. Kanz-ul-Ammal, Vol 6 concedes that records of Jesus Christ's activities came to be kept after he had come to Afghanistan and Kashmir and had preached his Message to the Israelites living there and after hundreds of people had accepted him and he had lived an eventful life to the very ripe age of 120. Early Christian writers and dignitaries of the. Church were forced to admit that Jesus had lived up to old age and died full of years. In his "An. Introduction to the Literature of the New Testament" (page 610) the famous Biblical scholar, Dr. James. . Moffatt writes "Irenaeas quotes from the presbyters. who are claimed to have been in touch with the apostle John that Jesus died when he was in his aetas Senior, i. e. over forty or fifty. Monsignor. Louis Duchesne writes in his book "Early History of the Christian Church" Vol. 1 page 105 "According to tales current in the days of Papies the Lord lived to a great age. . . . . . . . . . aetas' Senior". . Again in "History of Dogma" Vol. II page 277278 Dr. Adolf Harnack writes "that in the letter he also includes the fact that Jesus must have passed through and been subjected to all the conditions of a complete human life from birth to old age and death". . It is also in keeping with the time-honored practice of Allah's messengers that they have to do. Hijrat (migration) after they are entrusted with a Divine mission and Jesus too was true to this prophetic tradition. Jesus came to Afghanistan and Kashmir because according to John "other sheep which are not of this fold lived there. " His mission could not have become complete unless he should have brought