Where Did Jesus Die? — Page 193
Chapter Thirteen—Yus Asaph and Jesus 193 3. Rev. Weitbrecht, a Christian missionary, an opponent of the Promised Messiah, who worked for years in the Punjab, after his visit to the tomb in 1903 wrote a letter in a Christian news- paper, Epiphany , in which he said: Within this are two tombstones. He (a venerable old man in charge of the shrine) said that the larger one at the north end was that of Yus Asaf, and that the smaller tombstone was that of Sayyid Nasr-ud-Din. (a) 4. The Editor of the Review of Religions , in the issue dated October, 1909, writes: The most remarkable thing about the tomb is that it is known not only as the tomb of a Nabi Sahib, but also as that of Isa Sahib ( Jesus). Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmud Ahmad, son of the Promised Messiah, paid a visit to the tomb in July last; and when he asked an old woman (the last survivor of a long line of the hereditary attendants of the tomb) whose tomb it was, she replied: ‘It is the tomb of Isa Sahib. ’ Being asked why she called it the tomb of Isa Sahib, while the Maulvis believed Isa ( Jesus) to be in the heavens, she said, ‘Let them believe what they will. The name (Isa) is the one which we have been hearing from our forefathers. ’ (a) As the Rev. Weitbreeht had misrepresented some facts in his letter, a controversy took place between him and Maulvi Sher Ali, a devout companion of the Promised Messiah, for which refer to The Review of Religions, vol. 2, Nos. 11 and 12, 1903; vol 3, No. 5, May, 1904.