Life of Ahmad — Page 679
as JESUS as IN INDIA 679 and that his age was 120. Ahmad as also came to the conclusion that Jesus as left Palestine after the Crucifixion and came preaching to India and died in Kashmir where his tomb still exists. It appears that all references to the journeys of Jesus as after the Crucifixion were deliberately and successfully suppressed throughout the world. It was perhaps necessary in the interests of all the great religions of the world. The Jews say that he was killed because he was an impostor. The Christians assert that Jesus as redeemed the sinful world by dying on the cross. The Muslims were misled by the people of the book and gradually they began to believe that Jesus as had ascended to the sky with his physical body. Hence, any reference to the post-Crucifixion journey of Jesus as was automatically regarded as an error deserving obliteration. Mr. Nicholas Notovitch, a Russian traveller, says on the authority of a Cardinal of the Roman Church, that the unknown part of the life of Jesus as is no novelty: The Vatican Library possesses sixty three complete or incomplete manuscripts, in various oriental languages, referring to this matter, which have been brought to Rome by missionaries from India, China, Egypt and Arabia. This Russian traveller was also dissuaded by Christians from publishing his book in spite of the fact that there is nothing in it which is against Christian doctrines.