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safeguarded, he was also completely safeguarded in respect of his freedom, dignity and honour. False charges were brought against him and he was hauled into court to answer them. In every case he was honourably discharged or acquitted and all the malicious designs of his enemies were completely frustrated. In one of those cases he was charged with so grave an offence as conspiracy to murder. Yet the proceedings took a course in which his honour, dignity and innocence were so completely upheld and vindicated that not only were his opponents utterly frustrated in their evil designs, but suffered great humiliation and were exposed to prosecution in respect of the false charge they had made. But he declared that his case was pending before God. Almighty and that he would not initiate proceedings against his enemies in a court of law. . The Holy Prophet, peace be upon him, had said that in his second advent the Messiah would defend Islam, break the cross and kill swine (Abu Daud, Book Al-Malaham, Ch. Khurujuddajjal). This prophecy of the Holy Prophet, peace be upon him, was fulfilled in a striking manner by Hazrat Mirza Ghulam. Ahmad, who was designated by God in one of the revelations vouchsafed to him as the Champion of Allah in the mantles of the prophets (Tadhkirah, p. 148). His outstanding defence of Islam is acknowledged even by his opponents. He effectively exposed the falsity of the Christian affirmation that Jesus had died upon the cross and thus destroyed the entire basis of the doctrines of the. Atonement, Resurrection and physical ascension to heaven. . Under divine direction he was able to demonstrate that having been delivered from the cross, and having met his disciples several times in his physical body, he parted from them and travelled through the countries in which the so-called tribes of. Israel were scattered after the Babylonian captivity and eventually settled in Kashmir where he died and was buried in Khanyar, a suburb of Srinagar. He set all this out in his book Masih. Hindustan Mein (Jesus In India). Since the publication of that book, the Tomb of Jesus in Srinagar has become a shrine and a place of pilgrimage. In consequence of the exposure of the myth of the death of Jesus upon the cross by Hazrat Mirza Ghulam. Ahmad the doctrine of the divinity of Jesus is being described as a myth by some dignitaries of the Church. The cross has been effectively broken. 9