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Yuz Asaf (Kashmiri: युझ असफ, یوذسف), Judasaf, Yus Asaph, or Shahzada Nabi Hazrat Yura Asaf (meaning "Leader of the Healed") is a prophet revered among the Sabians. Al-Tabari recorded that Judasaf or Budasaf, as he is also known, called his people to the religion of the Sabians that Bishtasb and his father Luhrasb, the rulers of Persia after Kai Khosrow, had previously embraced until Sami and Zoroaster came to Bishtasb with their beliefs. It is believed by Ahmadis to be the name adopted by Jesus after he allegedly survived the crucifixion and subsequently traveled to Jammu and Kashmir, India.

History

Similar beliefs about Yuz Asaf

Similar beliefs about Yuz Asaf are held by a wide variety of people and groups, among them that he married a woman called Marjam, who bore him a number of children, and that he lived to be around 120 years of age before he died. It is also claimed that Jesus' mother, Mary, died when he was 48 years old, and is buried nearby in the town of Murree, in Pakistan), where her burial place is called Mai Mari da Ashtan.(meaning "Resting place of Mother Mary.'

Yuz Asaf's teachings are often compared with those of Jesus in form. These beliefs about Yuz Asaf have also been adopted by people in the New Age movement, and by those who consider the Talmud Jmmanuel to be genuine rather than the hoax that Bible scholars belive it to be.

Professor Fida Hassnain, former Director of India History and Archives, and a life-time resident of Kashmir, collaberated with Suzanne Olsson to research local evidence supporting the claims that Yuz Asaf and Jesus are one and the same and are buried here.

Ahmadis believe that Jesus travelled to Jammu and Kashmir, a journey not mentioned in the Bible. The Acts of Thomas, written around the late second or early third century AD , is partly about a journey by St Thomas to India. It alleges that Thomas arrived in the southern part of India in 52 AD after completing a building contract in Taxila for the king there. Taxila was a university city on a trade route, and a center of Buddhism. According to tradition, Thomas founded seven early churches there . The Saint Thomas Christians are all descended from these churches. A Roman Catholic cathedral marks the location where he was murdered and buried, in Mylapore.

But supporters of some of these theories also claim that a 17th century text, Tarikh-i-Kashmir by Khwaja Hassan Malik, records an inscription which reported that Yuz Asaf entered Kashmir in the year 78. However, this inscription is now illegible or lost, while critics note that the text is not available for general study. Another inscription is said to have existed at the Temple of Solomon (in Srinagar) which, it is claimed, was carved by Jesus and St. Thomas when they allegedly visited and repaired the Temple..

See also

• Mithras
• Maitreya
• Jesus
• Roza Bal
• Saint Josaphat
• Elohim
• Talmud Jmmanuel

References

1. The Knowledge of Life by Sinasi Gunduz (Journal of Semitic Studies pg.31)
2. The Whole Bible, http://www.maplenet.net/~trowbridge/actsthom.htm
3. Stephen Neill. A History of Christianity in India: The Beginnings to AD 1707 ISBN 0521548853
4. Biography of St. Thomas the Apostle

• Andreas Faber Kaiser, Jesus died in Kashmir: Jesus, Moses and the ten lost tribes of Israel Gordon & Cremonesi (1977), ISBN 0-86033-041-9
• Norbert Klatt, Lebte Jesus in Indien?, Göttingen: Wallstein 1988. Relates the origin of the identification of Jesus and Yuz Asaf.
• Holger Kersten, Jesus Lived in India Online summary
• Nicolas Notovitch, The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ, Leaves of Healing Publications (April 1, 1990), ISBN 0-9602850-1-6. Reprint of this 1890s publication, which first proposed this theory.
• Paul C. Pappas, Jesus' Tomb in India: The Debate on His Death and Resurrection, Asian Humanities Press, (September 1, 1991), ISBN 0-89581-946-5 Concludes that Yuz Asaf is not Jesus.
• Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Jesus in India Online version
• 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 0-913321-60-5
• Günter Grönbold, Jesus In Indien, München: Kösel 1985, ISBN 3-466-20270-1. Shows that Yuz Asaf is a misreading for Budasaf, an alternative name of Buddha.
• Hugh Schonfield, The Essene Odyssey, Element Books Ltd (1993), ISBN 0-906540-63-1 Argues that Yuz Asaf is an Essene teacher, not Jesus.

External links

Independent Research

• Did Jesus Die, A short BBC Film

Muslim Ahmadii Links

• Tomb of Jesus Organisation
• Muslim Opposition
• Discussion between the former webmaster of the Tomb of Jesus website and a skeptic
• Jesus in India traditions
• Unofficial discussion about Ahmadiyya Muslim Community

• Ahmadiyya
• Christianity in India
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• New Age
• New religious movements