Where Did Jesus Die? — Page 195
Chapter Thirteen—Yus Asaph and Jesus 195 There resided in Kashmir some 1900 years ago a saint of the name of Yus Asaf, who preached in parables and used many of the same parables as Christ used, as, for instance, the parable of the sower. His tomb is in Srinagar, and the theory of the founder of this Quadiani [sic] Sect is that Yus Asaf and Jesus are one and the same person. 1 7. One of the points which Dr. Francois Bernier has mentioned in his Travels to show that the Jews lived in Kashmir, is ‘the belief that Moses died in the city of Kashmir, and that his tomb is within a league of it. It is obvious that the inhabit- ants, who, Bernier says, were Muslims, could not say that Moses died in Kashmir and was buried there, because the Holy Prophet of Islam pointed to his tomb in Palestine. It seems that Bernier somehow misunderstood and took Isa for Musa. This point, however, proves beyond doubt that the inhabitants of Kashmir, in the seventeenth century, believed that the occu- pant of the tomb was a Hebrew Prophet, as great as Moses. 2 8. Ahmad Islam, after his visit to Kashmir in 1939, wrote in a let- ter to the editor of The Sunrise the following: I did soon venture out of my room. I mentioned Khanyar to a Tongawala. Spirited was the response. ‘You want to see the Rauza of Nabi Sahib, sir?’ ‘Yes’ was my reply, and 1. ‘Kashmir’—described by Sir Francis Younghusband, p. 129–130. London, 1911. 2. Bernier: Travels in the Moghul Empire, p. 430, Oxford University Press.