The Nazarene Kashmiri Christ — Page 32
32 time he would have to leave Palestine for another country. He had also foretold that after having delivered his message to the Israelites in Palestine he would go to seek the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel and bring them back into the Master's fold. Even the. Jews themselves in Jesus' time believed that the Lost. Tribes of Israel had dispersed in different lands. . It is an invariable Divine Law that Allah's messengers are at first rejected and persecuted but eventually they succeed and their rejecters come to grief. . In consonance with this Divine Law, Jesus, the last Israelite Prophet also met with severe persecution at the hands of his opponents. They got him nailed on the cross. But true to His law and promise God. Almighty delivered him from the accursed death by crucifixion. To offset his seeming failure in the early stages of his mission, Allah gave him shelter along. with his mother in a land full of green meadows and running springs where his mission prospered and he lived to a ripe old age. Jesus' death, like his birth, has become a subject of great controversy. Some confusion and doubt still persists as to how and where he passed the last days of his crowded life. . If we can determine, that before the event of crucifixion ten out of twelve tribes migrated to the. East, Jesus and his mother will be found wherever all the factors mentioned in the verse combine. . History and Anthropology affirm the fact that the people living in Kashmir are not the original inhabitants. . If we trace History we find that after the death of Solomon and in the reign of his cruel and worthless son whom the Quran calls "the worm of the earth" (in chapter 34 i. e. Sura Saba Verse 15) a revolt headed by Jeroboam split the Jews into two perpetually hostile camps. The major section, the Ten Tribes, assumed