Re: The Kashmir Tomb
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This personality of Yuz Asaf is very interesting. Do you know of any sources which are independent from the Ahmadiyya regarding this person. I have done some checking and it seems other than Isa (AS), mostly if not wholly proposed by the Ahmadiyya, there are other candidates for Yuz Asaf …
One is that he could be Yuz Asaf - a Sabien traveller, or Josephat according to the Christians. I cannot find any information on the Sabien of the same name, however I found some information on Josephat which is not convincing because he was from Ukraine so what was he doing in Kashmir.
I thought of Jospehus being a possibility who is son of Matthias. Jospehus is commonly know as Luke the one who wrote most of the gospels and attributed them to Paul.
Stigmata and self-flagelation can also result in the hands and feet with marks of the cross. I therefore cannot believe the person in that burial chamber is Isa(AS) based on this argument.
In fact in the gospel Pontius Pilate gave the people the chance to decide which of two people they wanted crucified. Someone called Barabbas or Jesus … they said they wanted Jesus crucified. Barabbas means ‘son of the father’ … and strangely enough his first name was Jesus. Which Jesus was set free? Which crucified?
It could be that both people survived death. One was crucified (put on the cross) the other not. The crucified Jesus was not a prophet but may have become a good man later on. It may be reasonable for this to be that man who went to Kashmir possibly to escape his people. The one who escaped entirely could have been the prophet Isa (AS).
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It is also possible that both of these people are aspects of the same person. Just like the Mary Magdelene and Mary Mother of Jesus are somewhat two aspects of the same person taken apart. (Incidentally … Magdelene is supposed to be a prostitute, and Islam says that Maryam (AS) was accused of bad conduct because of Jesus (AS)'s birth from this it follows that Christians may have wanted to preserve the image of Mary by making two of them - the same can be the case with Jesus (AS) )