Bounties of the Gracious God — Page 69
Our Beliefs in Brief 69 number more than a thousand and are well-known among all the present and past scholars and are considered authentic by them will be compelled to testify that the Ointment of Jesus prepared for the wounds of the god of the Christians. There is no second opinion about this, for it is among the most famous ointments and one that finds mention in almost a thousand books of medicine. Likewise, I have learned about the tomb of ( Jesus) which is located close to this land of Punjab (in Srinagar, Kashmir). And, without doubt it is the resting place of Jesus. The denial of mali- cious scholars cannot weaken the authenticity of these proven facts, for these [scholars] make egotistical statements and come up to me only in denial. I find them extremely arrogant, unwise and ones who have gone too far in their denial. And yet they are called leaders of the Ummah and stars of the nation! Their spirit- uality is dead and the mortal world has overcome them. What is wrong with them and why do they not understand that the ‘ascen- sion’ of Jesus was meant to vindicate him from the accusation of being accursed, whereas a physical ascension towards the sky would not absolve him of this accusation. Moreover, while Jesus had been sent to all the tribes of the Jews and all the Israelites, and as has been mentioned already, these tribes were spread all over the world, and thus he was obliged to take up travel and look for the other tribes, how then would it be possible for him to ascend to the heavens without having accomplished his mission and dis- charged his duties? This is logically impossible. Moreover, belief in his physical ascension to the heavens pro- duced only negative results and helped the growth of only an evil tree. If this belief had been valid and if it had truly been an act of Allah, it would surely have produced good results. There