The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 34
THE PROMISED MESSIAH AND MAHDI. JESUS DID NOT DIE ON THE CROSS. . A GREAT HISTORICAL ERROR REMOVED. According to a prophecy of the Holy Prophet Mohammad, peace be on him, Mahdi -Messiah will appear when Christianity will be predominant and he will break the cross which means he will demolish the great error and misunderstanding about Jesus having died on the cross. Church dogmas are based upon this great historical error. . Hadhrat Ahmad proved from Biblical accounts that Jesus did not die upon the cross. He was alive when taken down from the cross. and was revived. In 1899 Hadhrat Ahmad expressed the view in his book, Jesus in India, that Jesus, after having survived the cross, travelled east to India in search of the lost tribes of Israel and settled in Kashmir where he died a natural death and was buried in Srinager, in the tomb which can be freely visited any day. He did a great deal of research and he wrote on this subject with great vigour giving powerful arguments. He laid great emphasis on the natural death of. Jesus contrary to Orthodox Muslim belief about ascension and life of. Jesus physically in heaven. He also proved the natural death of Jesus. from the Holy Quran and Hadith. Subsequent historical discoveries. have corroborated the views of Hadhrat Ahmad. . By powerful arguments in his writings, by holding debates. with Christian scholars and missionaries, by heavenly signs shown in his favour and by emphasizing the natural death of Jesus, he successfully countered Christianity and exposed the hollowness and baselessness of christian dogmas. Aggressive onslaught of Christian missionaries in India aided and encouraged by British Government, was checked by his successful campaign as a champion of Islam. . Christianity was put on the defensive and it began to retreat. In the eighty seven years since his death, missionaries of the Ahmadiyya. Movement have spread all over the world and in most Christian countries Islamic Missions and mosques have been established. Non 34