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Yuz Asaf or Yus Asaf is the name of an ancient personage mentioned in the texts, as well as the oral traditions, of Kashmir, India. One account (Khwaja Hassan Malik's, Tarikh-i-Kashmir, f.56) says that an inscription, now illegible (See, Saving the Savior, p. 251) recorded the entry of Yuz Asaf into Kashmir as occuring in the year 54 of the Laukika Era, a calender system once used exclusively in Kashmir. According to Dr. Fida Hassnain (A Search for the Historical Jesus, pp. 202-203), the year 54 of the Laukika Era coincides with the year 78 AD, about 45 years after the date generally assigned as the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

Yuz Asaf is believed to have entered Kashmir from a western direction (See, Jesus in Heaven on Earth, p. 387). In another account, also titled Tarikh-i-Kashmir, but written by a different author, Mulla Nadri, Yuz Asaf is said to have originated from, "Bait-ul-Muqaddas," i.e., the Holy Land, today called Israel (Tarikh-i-Kashmir, p. 69).

Yuz Asaf was described as both a Prophet, or Messenger of God, as well as a Prince (See, Tarikh-i-Kabir-i-Kashmir, by Haji Mohiuddin, Vol. I, p. 34; Saving the Savior, by Abubakr Ben Ishmael Salahuddin, p. 236) who, "absorbed himself in prayers and piety attained the station of a Messenger and was sent to this land for guidance of the people."

Various accounts claim that Yuz Asaf is none other than Jesus Christ, the individual whom Christians proclaim as the founder of Christianity. Nadri, for instance, claims that he had, "seen in a book of Hindus that this prophet was really Hazrat Isa, the Spirit of God." The name "Isa" is the name used for Jesus in both Hindu and Islamic books (See verse 26, line 1 and verse 31, line 2 of the third khanda of the pratisarga parvan of the Bhavishya Mahapurana, as well as many verses of the Arabic Qur'an).

The famous parable ascribed to Jesus Christ in the Bible, the Sower parable, is one that Kashmiri tradition ascribes to Yuz Asaf, thus establishing an apparent link between Yuz Asaf and Jesus Christ (see, Ikmal-ud-Din, by Al-Shaikh Al-Said-us-Sadiq Abi Jaffar Muhammad ibn-i-Ali Ibn-i-Hussain Ibn-i-Musa Ibn-i-Baibuyah al-Qummi, p. 357, published in Iran by Syed-us-Sanad Press, 1782; also Hassnain, p. 205; Salahuddin, p. 228)

Since Yuz Asaf has been equated in the written and oral tradition of Kashmir with Jesus Christ, this has presented a controversy. Yuz Asaf entered Kashmir in 78 AD, as noted earlier, some 45 years after the date of the crucifixion. If Yuz Asaf and Jesus Christ are one and the same individual, then the conclusion would be that either the crucifixion of Jesus Christ never occurred, or that it did occur but he survived it.

The tomb of Yuz Asaf is still intact, and is called the Roza Bal, or Rauzabal (NOTE: When the page appears, make sure to click onto the picture to see a much larger size). It is situated in the Mohala Kan Yar district of Srinagar, the capital of Kashmir, India. The tomb consists of a low rectangular building on raised platform surrounded by railings at the front. It has three arches at the front where entry can be had and four arches at the side. Inside is a wooden box shaped screen where the tomb can be viewed on a lower floor near a river. An interesting aspect of the tomb are the imprint of two feet, carved in stone, with markings in the feet that appear to represent wounds suffered by Yuz Asaf. Those who believe that Yuz Asaf is Jesus Christ claim that those marks indicate the wounds inflicted upon Jesus by the nails that were driven into his feet, as recorded in the Bible.

In recent years, young Israelis have been flocking to Kashmir to visit this tomb, as well as other tombs alleged to contain the remains of Israelite prophets . A website, loaded to the Internet on December 10, 1999, and entitled, The Tomb of Jesus Christ Website exists and contains a thorough analysis of the Yuz Asaf/Jesus Christ connection.

Bibliography

  • Nicolas Notovitch, The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ, Leaves of Healing Publications (April 1, 1990), ISBN 0960285016. Reprint of this 1890s publication, which first proposed this theory.
  • Holger Kersten, Jesus Lived in India (in German)
  • Abubakr Ben Ishmael Salahuddin, Saving the Savior: Did Christ Survive the Crucifixion?, Jammu Pr; 1st Pbk edition (June, 2001), ISBN 0970828012
  • Kaiser, Jesus died in Kashmir
  • Khwaja Nazir Ahmad, Jesus in Heaven on Earth: Journey of Jesus to Kashmir, His Preaching to the Lost Tribes of Israel, and Death and Burial in Srinagar, Ahmadiyya Anjuman Ishaat, 1999, ISBN 0913321605
  • Maury Lee, Jesus of India
  • Paul C. Pappas, Jesus' Tomb in India: The Debate on His Death and Resurrection, Asian Humanities Press, (September 1, 1991), ISBN 0895819465
  • Gene Matloc, Jesus and Moses Are Buried in India, Birthplace of Abraham and the Hebrews
  • Richard G. Patton, The Autobiography of Jesus of Nazareth and the Missing Years A fictional account, based on this theory.

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