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Ghulam Ahmad - The Discovery
One of Ghulam Ahmad’s followers, Khalifa Nur Din
[or, Noor al-Din] of Jalalpur Jattan, District Gujrat, a loyal follower
of Ghulam Ahmad’s, spoke to him about a tomb in Srinagar that
was said to be the tomb of a prophet named Yuz Asaf. Ghulam Ahmad
instructed him to do some further research into the matter. Nur
Din went to Srinagar and stayed there for about four months. He
collected information and also obtained the signatures of 556 inhabitants
who attested to the fact that, according to their traditions, the
remains of Jesus Christ lied in the Roza Bal. He also brought back
a sketch of the Roza Bal. Then Ghulam Ahmad decided to send one
of his followers, Maulvi Abdullah, to Kashmir to investigate this
tomb. Maulvi Abdullah arrived in Kashmir, conducted his investigations,
and wrote back to Ghulam Ahmad about his findings. Ghulam Ahmad
then published a poster that contained Maulvi Abdullah’s letter,
as well as Maulvi Abdullah’s sketch of the Roza Bal.
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Any such tomb would have drawn the interest of any devout Muslim.
Ghulam Ahmad began studying the local traditions of the people of
Kashmir, both oral and written, and discovered that these traditions,
as we saw in the above letter from Maulvi Abdullah, quite matter-of-factly
referred to the Roza Bal as the tomb of “Nabi Isa” (Prophet
Jesus). Apparently, the Muslim in the streets didn’t believe
Jesus to be in heaven, as was taught by the orthodox clergy. In
fact, the Ahmadiyya publication, Review of Religions, recorded this
belief in its October, 1909 edition.
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