Raz-e-Haqiqat

The Truth

Background

The sworn enemy of the Promised Messiah(as), Maulavi Muhammad Hussain Batalvi made a futile attempt to find faults with the Promised Messiah(as)’s God-gifted knowledge of Arabic and asserted that the use of “Lam” in Ata‘jabu Li amri in one of the Promised Messiah(as)’s revelations was wrong and, therefore, the Promised Messiah(as)’s revelation is not a revelation but man-made stuff. The Promised Messiah(as) surprised his critics by producing five instances of similar uses of “Lam” from the Ahahith thus exposing Maulavi Muhammad Hussain Batalvi’s superficial knowledge of Ahadith (even though he claimed to be the head of the Ahl-e-Hadith).

The Book

In this book, he uncovered one of the great mysteries of the religious world. The Promised Messiah(as) gave a detailed account of the life of Jesus, son of Mary, from the time he was taken off from the Cross alive, and how he was medically treated and a special ointment was prepared to heal the wounds of Jesus. He followed up this account with the details of the journey taken up by Jesus from Palestine to Kashmir and leading to his death in Srinagar and a detailed map of the tomb of Jesus in Muhalla Khanyar on page 68 of the book.

Jesus was a Prophet of God, and the Promised Messiah(as), the author of these books, was also a Prophet of God, and he claimed that God had sent him in the guise of all the prophets, especially in the spirit and power of Jesus, to regenerate mankind. Therefore, he had the peculiar and exclusive advantage of being in a personal and privileged position to understand Jesus aright. He was the one, with him, in spirit and he had in fact met him and conversed with him on several occasions in his waking visions. Whatever he says is indeed based chiefly and primarily on his personal experiences. Hence, he speaks with an authority which cannot be easily questioned or challenged.

In the same way, as a Prophet of God, the Promised Messiah(as) knows the ways in which God deals with His creatures and Chosen Messengers. He lives on a higher plain and gifted as he is with Divine Light within himself, he throws lights on things which are too deep, being obscured by time, from the reach of ordinary human intellect. Other people seem to grope in the dark, but with the spiritual torch at his disposal, he at once illumines the sacred past and the truth dawns upon him as a seeker after truth as he begins to read His wonderful works. His treatment of the subject is masterly. He separates the chaff from the grain with an ease which fills one with wonder. He corrects all and spares none whether it be an apostle, a religious historian or a modern traveller. If and when the fair name of Jesus or truth is concerned in his reconstruction of the story of Jesus in reshaping as it were, this historical and illustrious figure, the Promised Messiah(as) brushes aside all irrelevant accretions of the ages from the beautiful face of Jesus so that, through the kindness of a humble servant of the Holy Prophet of Islam, it shines forth once again with the Divine lustre which characterises all the prophets of God. Blessed are those who believe in them.

In Life of Ahmad, Edition of 2008, pages 683-684, A.R. Dard(ra) says: John Noel, in his article entitled “The Heavenly High Snow Peaks of Kashmir,” published in the Asia Magazine of October 1930, says:

Immensely strong are these picturesque, broad-shouldered Kashmiri peasants and yet docile and meek in temperament. One thing about them strikes you with enormous force. They seem more perfectly Jewish than the purest Jews, you have ever seen, not because they wear a flowing cloak like the dress that conforms to your ideas of Biblical garments, but because their faces have the Jewish cast of features. The curious coincidence, or is it a coincidence? There is a strong tradition in Kashmir of connection with the Jews. For a good many years, there have been afloat in this land, rumours that Christ did not really die upon the Cross but was let down and disappeared to seek lost tribes. He came to Kashmir, Ladakh and Tibet and died and was buried in Srinagar. A Kashmiri legend, I have been told, contains references to a prophet who lived here and taught, as Jesus did by parables, such stories are repeated in Kashmir to the present day. Of recent years, certain explorers have also came upon traces of this story of the sojourn of Jesus in these regions.

Specimen of Writing

God, Who is hidden from human eyes but is shining brighter than everything else, and of Whose Majesty even the angels stand in awe, does not like insolence and cunning. He has mercy upon those who fear Him, so be afraid of Him and utter everything with deliberation. You are His Community whom He has chosen to set an example of goodness. He who does not discard vice, whose lips do not shun falsehood, and whose heart does not exclude impure thoughts, will be cut off from this Community. Servants of God, cleanse your hearts and wash out your insides. You can please everyone with hypocrisy and double-dealing, but thereby you will only earn the wrath of God. Have mercy upon yourselves and safeguard your progeny against Him. Spend yourselves in His way and be devoted to Him and become wholly His if you desire that you should see Him in this very life.1