Jesus In India — Page 59
J e s u s i n I n d i a 59 moment of his suffering, signs which had not been manifested before? They were so upset that they were no longer in a position to find out for themselves whether Jesus had really died, or what exactly his condition was? What had come about, however, was a Divine design to save Jesus, to which the verse that is, ’the Jews did not kill Jesus; but it was God who made them believe that they had killed him ,’ refers. It is these circumstances which encourage the righteous to place great trust in God, and to believe that God can save His servants as He pleases. The Holy Quran also says concerning the Messiah, son of Mary: ٢١ This means that not only will Jesus have honour and eminence, and enjoy greatness in the people’s eyes in this world, but also in the hereafter. It is evident that Jesus was not honoured in the land of Herod and Pilate. On the contrary, he suffered great disgrace and insult. That he would be honoured during his second coming to this earth is a groundless delusion, which is diametrically opposed to the Scriptures and God’s eternal law of nature. The truth is that Jesus, having escaped from those accursed people, graced the land of the Punjab with his presence, where he met the ten lost tribes of Israel and God blessed him with great honour and eminence. It seems that most of them had adopted Buddhism and some had degenerated into idolatry of a very low kind. But with the coming here of Jesus, most of them returned to the right path, and since the teaching of 21 3 : 46 (Translator)