Jesus In India — Page 117
J e s u s i n I n d i a 117 the author of Majma‘ul Ansaab , and that of Mestoufi, the author of Taareekh Gozeeda , it is stated that in the lifetime of the Holy Prophet sa , Khalid bin Walid invited the Afghans to Islam, who, after Bokhtnasser’s invasion, had taken up residence in the Ghor territory. The Afghan chiefs under the leadership of Qais, who was Talut’s descendant in the 37 th generation, came to pay their homage to the Holy Prophet sa. Qais was named Abdul Rashid by the Holy Prophet sa (Here the genealogy of Abdul Rashid Qais is traced back to Talut—Saul). The Holy Prophet sa also conferred the title of Pathan on the chiefs which means ‘ship’s rudder’. After some time the chiefs returned to their territory and began to preach Islam. In the same book Makhzan-i-Afghani on page 63, it is recorded that Farid-ud-Din Ahmad makes the following statement concerning the titles Beni Afghanah or Beni Afghan, in his book Risalah Ansaab-i-Afghaniyyah: After Nebuchadnezzar, the Magian, had subjugated the Israelites, conquered the Syrian territories and sacked Jerusalem, he took the Israelites prisoners and exiled them as slaves. He took away with him several of their tribes who followed the Mosaic Law, and ordered them to renounce their ancestral faith and to worship him instead of God, which they refused to do. Consequently, Nebuchadnezzar put to death two thousand of the most intelligent and the wisest from among them and ordered the rest to leave his kingdom and Syria. Some of them left Nebuchadnezzar’s territory under a chief and went away to the Ghor hills. Their descendants settled down in that place, multiplied at a fast rate, and people began to designate them as Beni Israel, Beni Asif and Beni Afghan.