Deliverance from the Cross — Page 148
then settled. His journey took him to Mesopotamia, Iran, Afghanistan, India, Tibet and Kashmir. He finally settled in Kashmir which is a plateau flowing with springs as indicated in the Quran (al-Mu'minun, 23:51) and is reputed to have lived to an advanced age. He died in the valley of Kashmir and was buried in the Khanyar quarter of Srinagar. His tomb is referred to as Rauzabal, meaning The Honoured Tomb. He found acceptance in the lands in which the lost tribes of Israel were settled, and it is a very significant historical fact that while only a few of the descendants of the Jews in Judaca, who rejected him, accepted the Holy Prophet of Islam in whose advent the prophecy of Moses in Deut. 18:18 was fulfilled, the descendants of the lost tribes of Israel in the lands of the diaspora all accepted the Holy Prophet of Islam and became Muslims. This was a striking fulfilment of the warning that Jesus had conveyed to the Jews of Judaea that if they rejected him the kingdom of God would be taken from them and would be transferred to another people. The Jews of the diaspora who accepted him did not become subject to the penalty imposed upon the Jews of Judaea who had rejected Jesus, and their descendants continued to enjoy the bounties of the Kingdom of God. Many of them became rulers in their own lands and all of them in due time were admitted to the spiritual bounties of the kingdom of God when they accepted the Prophet of Islam. 148