Where Did Jesus Die? — Page 201
Chapter Thirteen—Yus Asaph and Jesus 201 tomb under discussion. Secondly, had the entombed person been Buddha, or any other Hindu Raja, Prince, or Saint, the shrine would have been possessed and visited by Buddhists or Hindus, not by Muslims. Thirdly: The very name Yus Asaph, as I have discussed above, is a Hebrew name, and it seems ridiculous to take it for another form of Bodhisattva. Is it not more credible that it is another form of Yus Asaph than to take it for a form of Bodhisattva? When it is established that Yus Asaph of Kashmir was not Gautama Buddha then we are justified in saying with full confidence that he was no other than the Prophet Prince, Jesus of Nazareth (peace and blessings of God be upon him). The genuineness of this discovery by the Promised Messiah, that the entombed Yus Asaph in Srinagar is none other than Jesus, is proved by all possible means by which such events of the distant past are proved, and it is so evident and clear that even Sheikh Rashid Ridha (of Cairo, Egypt), who opposed the Promised Messiah all his life could not help but comment, after reproducing the arguments regarding this tomb, from Al-Huda (the Promised Messiah’s work in Arabic) in the book Tafsir-ul-Manar , vol. 6, under the caption ‘Jesus’ flight to India and his death in Kashmir’, in these words: The flight of Jesus, therefore, to India and his death in Srinagar is not foreign to rational or historical truth. Judge Docker writes: I must here notice the old legend which I have before