Where Did Jesus Die? — Page x
? x accepted his claim without question as they knew his truthful and virtuous character. Growing up in this inspirational environment, the young Jalal- ud-Din Shams dedicated his life for the cause of Ahmadiyyat, and was trained to be a missionary by various companions of the Promised Messiah as including Hazrat Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmud Ahmad ra and Hazrat Hafiz Raushan Ali ra. In 1925, Maulana Shams ra was dispatched to the Middle East where he founded the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Damascus, Syria. However, there he was viciously attacked from behind by a knife-wielding assailant and left for dead in a pool of blood. Fortunately, he was discovered by a neighbour and immediately taken to the hospital. The doctors’ prognosis was grim and it was expected that he would soon die from the several knife wounds he sustained in his back. A telegram was sent to Hazrat Mirza Bashir- ud-Din Mahmud Ahmad, the Second Khalifah ra, in Qadian to apprise him of the situation. He requested the Community to gather in Masjid Aqsa to collectively pray for Shams and another missionary in another locale. Miraculously, Shams started to heal within three days. Upon full recovery, the French authorities requested him to leave as they could not guarantee his protection. Maulana Shams, under the guidance and direction of the Second Khalifah ra, went to Palestine. There he frequented various centres of Muslim learning to preach the message of Ahmadiyyat. He established the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Kababir, Haifa (now in Israel) and laid the foundation of Mahmood Mosque. A street in Kababir is named after him. After deliver- ing a lecture at the famous Dar-ul-Hikmah in Cairo, one of the Arab scholars stood up and questioned him where he received