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are these Ahmadiyya Muslims? This was so because most. Christians, including myself at this time, knew nothing or not much about the Muslims. Thereafter, year by year, parallel with my mission to spread around the world the findings of the Holy Shroud, I studied Islam and the Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam. The Holy Quran in clear terms states that. Jesus or Isa survived the crucifixion. Ambiguous or not, certainly Islam does not want a dead Jesus on the cross. Since this contradicts the most fundamental and cherished Christian belief regarding Jesus Christ, hence for many centuries the. Christians and Muslims have been busy killing each other. But. I have to accept that the Quran wins; the Christians lose their case because Jesus in fact survived the cross and his own shroud is the most reliable and leading witness of that. . The Muslims traditionally believed that according to their reading of the Quran Jesus was taken up into heaven in his physical body. The Christians also have a similar belief and they call it the Ascension of Jesus. Thus these beliefs remained fixed for many centuries until the advent of Hazrat Mirza Ghulam. Ahmad. Hazrat Ahmad with his spiritual power and on authority called Divine Revelation announced to the world:. Jesus came as a messenger of God, did his duty, did not die on the cross, died a natural death, and his body is buried in. Srinagar, Kashmir. . In the last years of the 19th and first years of the 20th century, Hazrat Ahmad, as a Prophet and a World Reformer, could not win universal support, because both the Muslims and. Christians opposed him fiercely and rejected him. The Muslims were inter alia hostile because he announced that Jesus died a natural death and lay buried in Srinagar, while their traditional belief was that Jesus had risen bodily to heaven. The Christians were equally hostile and felt deep aversion and antagonism not only to the natural death but also to his categoric statement that Jesus did not die on the cross. I should now give you an account of what I personally witnessed in this respect. After a brief introduction I shall give an account of the events which took place in connection with the above apparently incompatible beliefs about Jesus. It is a report of what I myself saw and you may think about it what you may. . But I state what I saw. . I have already stated that my investigations on the Holy 155