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CHAPTER ONE 21 worshipping idols. Thus it is that Dr. Bernier, on the authority of a number of eminent scholars, states in his book, Travels that the people of Kashmir in reality are the Jews who had migrated to this country during the political turmoil in the days of the king of Assur. In any case, it was incumbent upon Jesus, the Messiah, may peace be on him, to find out the whereabouts of these lost sheep, who had got mixed with the local people after coming to this country of India. I shall presently produce evidence to prove that Jesus, the Messiah, may peace be on him, did in fact come to India and then, by stages, travelled to Kashmir, and discovered the lost sheep of Israel among Buddhists, who ultimately accepted him the very same way Jonah was accepted by the people of Jonah. And it was essential for this to happen, for Jesus, the Messiah, had said in the Gospel, by his own tongue, that he had been sent for the lost sheep of Israel. Quite apart from this it was also necessary that he must needs have escaped death on the cross for it is stated in the Holy Book that whoever is hanged on the cross is accursed. The term 'accursed' has a connotation which it would be most cruel and unfair to apply to a chosen one of God like Jesus, the Messiah, for, according to the agreed view of all whose mother tongue is Arabic, la'nat, or curse, has reference to the state of one's heart. A man is said to be accursed when his heart, having actu- ally been estranged from God, becomes black; when, deprived of divine mercy and of divine love, devoid absolutely of His knowledge, blind and deaf like Satan, he is saturated with the 1. ✩ See Volume II of Travels* by the Frenchman Dr. Bernier. (Author) *see Appendix extract 10. [Publisher]