All the Messengers of Allah, especially the
law-bearing prophets were made in some way or another to leave their initial
place of residence for another place through the will of Allah. Sometimes,
places within their own homelands or they switched altogether countries where
their missions went on to be successful.
Today I
would like to put before you the heart-touching story and the lesson which
Jesus – Hazrat Isa (as) has given us in his emigration from Jerusalem to
Kashmir in India. [Inset: Jesus in western art, symbolic-
not historically accurate, representation].
In his post-crucifixion period, Jesus was helped by his well-wishers and disciples in secret. His disciples on record may have been official twelve men, out of which one (i.e. Judas) became a hypocrite and “sold” him to his enemies, but he may have had many secret disciples not recorded in history who became sincere help when he had to flee Jerusalem. From a study of his life, and the research of various authors including the Promised Messiah Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (as), Jesus (as) may have stayed in Palestine, as well as Afghanistan and Northern India before he finally met his lost sheep, i.e. the Lost Tribes of Israel.