Jesus in India - Ahmadiyya Muslim Community

164 Pages·2009·5.99 MB·English

Jesus in India
Jesus’ Deliverance from the Cross
&
Journey to India
Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian
THE PROMISED MESSIAH AND MAHDI,
FOUNDER OF THE AHMADIYYA MUSLIM JAMA’AT
ISLAM INTERNATIONAL PUBLICATIONS LTD.
Jesus in India
English Translation of ʻMasih Hindustan Mein’ (Urdu)
by Hadrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian
First Edition (Urdu): Printed in Qadian in 1908
First Edition (English): Printed in Qadian in 1944
Reprints: 1962 (Rabwah); 1973, 1991 (Qadian),
1978, 1989, 1995 (London)
A fully revised edition was published in London in 2003;
Reprinted in UK in 2004, 2007, 2010, 2012, 2015
First Edition in India 2003
Present edition reprinted in Qadian in October 2016
Copies - 1000
Translation into English from Urdu by the late Qazi Abdul Hamid
and thoroughly revised by Professor Chaudhry Muhammad Ali.
© Islam International Publications Ltd
Published by:
Nazarat Nashr-o-Isha'at
Qadian, Distt: Gurdaspur-143516,
Punjab - India
Printed at:
Fazl-e-Umar Printing press
ISBN: 1 85372 723 7
Publisher’s Note
Jesus in India is the English version of Masih
Hindustan Mein, an Urdu treatise written by the Holy
Founder of the worldwide Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat,
Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1835-1908), the Promised
Messiah and Mahdi. The main thesis expounded in this
treatise is Jesus' deliverance from death on the Cross
and his subsequent journey to India in quest of the lost
tribes of Israel whom he had to gather into his fold as
foretold by Jesus himself.
Starting his journey from Jerusalem and passing
through Nasibus and Iran, Jesus is shown to have
reached Afghanistan where he met the Jews who had
settled there after their escape from the bonds of
Nebuchadnezzar. From Afghanistan Jesus went to
Kashmir where some Israelite tribes had also settled. He
made this place his home and here he died and lies
buried in Srinagar, Kashmir.
In this book, Hazrat Ahmad has solved another
difficult problem which has for long confounded many a
western writer, namely the problem of the resemblance
between Christian and Buddhistic teachings and also
between the life of Jesus and that of Buddha, as
recorded in their respective Scriptures. Some of these
writers hold that Buddhistic teachings must somehow
have reached Palestine and were incorporated by Jesus
in his own sermons. But there is absolutely no historical
evidence to support this theory. A Russian traveller
named Nicolas Notovitch stayed for quite some time with
Lamas in Tibet and had their religious chronicles
translated for him. He is of the opinion that Jesus must
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have been to Tibet before the Crucifixion and gone back
to Palestine after having imbibed Buddhistic teachings.
Rejecting both these views, Hazrat Ahmad proves that
Jesus came to India only after the Crucifixion and not
before, and that it was not he who borrowed Buddha's
teachings but the Buddhists who seem to have
reproduced the Gospels in their books. Jesus also
visited Tibet during his travels in India in search of the
lost tribes of Israel. He preached his message to
Buddhist monks, some of whom were originally Jews.
They were deeply impressed by Jesus' teachings and
accepted him as the manifestation of the Buddha, the
Promised Teacher. With faith in him as their Master,
they incorporated his teachings into the teachings of the
Buddha himself.
Masih Hindustan Mein, was—it still is—an epoch-
making and cataclysmic book. It transformed the
theological landscape of Judaism, Pauline Christianity
and conventional Islam. The catalyst it introduced was
that Jesus—a true prophet of God that he was, was
saved from death on the cross, lived long and lies buried
in Srinagar Kashmir.
As stated in the Introduction and at the end, the book
was to be divided into two parts, the first to comprise as
many as ten chapters plus an epilogue, and the second
part to contain additional proofs of Jesus' journey to
India and a comparative evaluation of the teachings of
Islam and Christianity establishing the truth of Islam as
well as of his own claim to be the Promised Messiah. It
seems he couldn’t find time for further research on this
subject, but he made good his resolve by ushering in a
spiritual rebirth of Islam in its pristine purity, founding
the dynamic Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat worldwide and
writing not one but more than eighty books concerning
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the truth of Islam, his own claim as the Promised
Messiah and Mahdi and the life and death of Jesus.
Written in 1899, and partly serialized in Review of
Religions in 1902 and 1903, the book itself was
posthumously published on 20th November 1908. The
first English translation, by the late Qazi Abdul Hamid,
was published in 1944. On instructions from Hazrat
Mirza Tahir Ahmad, Khalifat-ul-Masih IV, Imam of the
worldwide Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat, the present
edition has been thoroughly revised by Professor
Muhammad Ali Chaudhry, Wakilut Tasnif, Rabwah.
As supporting evidence of the theses advanced in this
book, relevant excerpts from different authors and
researchers are given at the end as appendix. These
excerpts do not form part of the original text which, in
the course of translation, has been kept inviolate and
even misprints, if any, have not been corrected. The
correct version has, however, been given in footnotes
only after permission by our august Imam, Hazrat
Khalifa-tul-Masih IV. The author’s footnotes are
indicated by asterisks, while the translator’s footnotes
have been numbered 1,2,3, etc.
Since different editions of the Bible differ in the serial
numbers of verses, care has been taken to stick to the
numbers quoted by the author. Biblical references have
been quoted from the Authorized King James’ Version,
published by the Zondervan Corporation, Grand Rapids,
Michigan 49530, USA.

THE PUBLISHERS

Acknowledgments
We owe a debt of deep gratitude to all those who
helped in the preparation of this revised edition of Jesus
in India, particularly to Maulana Bashir Ahmad Akhtar,
Mr. Dhulqarnain and Raja Ata-ul-Mannan for proof
reading and verifying references and helping in a variety
of ways.
We are also deeply grateful to Maulana Munir-ud-Din
Shams, Additional Wakilut Tasnif, London and Mr.
Arshad Ahmadi for scrutinizing and correcting the
proofs, particularly Maulana Shams for his continued
interest and useful suggestions. We are also grateful to
Mr. Munwwar Saeed for preparing the index, and to the
Arabic Desk in London, headed by Maulana Abdul
Momin Tahir, for updating the Appendix.

Chaudhry Muhammad Ali
Wakilut Tasnif
Rabwah

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