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The True Story of Jesus

THE TRUE STORY OF JESUS

Book’s foreword

Perhaps there is no other individual of any prominence in the history of religion about whom so many differences exist as about Jesus, son of Mary, may peace be upon him. The Jews, the Christians and the Muslims all hold different views about the birth of Jesus, the manner of his death and about the account of his life.

Christians believe that Jesus gave his life on the cross to save mankind from sin, was resurrected on the 3rd day and ascended to heaven.

The Jews believed that he died an accursed death on the cross.

The majority of Muslims believe that he was never put on the cross. It was somebody that resembled Jesus who was crucified while Jesus was lifted bodily to heaven where he is still waiting to come back to earth.

The views of the Ahmadi Muslims are based upon a rational approach that Jesus did not die on the cross. He was unconscious when taken down from the cross and was placed in a sepulchre where an ointment was applied to his wounds.

Thus recovering from his wounds he migrated to the countries where the lost tribes of Israel had settled. Finally he reached Kashmir where his tomb is located.

The two main sources used in this book are the Bible and the Qur’an.

The ‘True Story of Jesus” is yet another book prepared by the members of the Children’s Book Committee. The committee

was appointed by Hadhrat Khalifatul Masih IV and has been working under his direct supervision and guidance.

The members of the committee are extremely grateful to Huzur for devoting so much of his valuable time to this project inspite of his extremely busy schedule of work.

We are also extremely grateful to Maulana Ata-ul-Mujeeb Rashid, Imam, London Mosque for going through the manuscript and giving valuable suggestions.

Muslims are advised to say “Alaihis-Salaam” (peace be upon him), whenever they read the name of Jesus or any other Prophet, and “Sal-Lallaaho Alaihi Wa Sallam” (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him), when they read the name of the Holy Prophet oflslam.

We hope and pray that this booklet will be welcomed by children, teachers and parents alike.

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

On the edge of the Roman Empire there was a small country, Palestine. The Romans had conquered Palestine in the year 63 BC. In the northern part of this country, in a small hilly town called Nazareth, lived a little girl named Mary.

Her father’s name was Imran and her mother’s name was Hannah. Hannah had made a vow before the birth of the child that she would dedicate her child’s life to the service of the Temple. She had hoped and prayed to give birth to a male child because in those days only male children were accepted in the service of the Temple.

But when Mary was born instead, Hannah was perplexed and expressed her anguish to God saying, “Oh God! I have given birth to a girl” O) Allah told her that He knew better as to what she had given birth to.

This implied that the girl was not an ordinary girl, rather God has bestowed on her those qualities which made her a very special and extra-ordinary child, even better than the boy, Hannah was hoping for. Mary was admitted to the service of God in the Jewish Temple as an exceptional case.

The Temple was headed by Zachariah, the High Priest, who according to the Holy Qur’an, was also a Prophet of God. Thus according to God’s design, Mary was brought up under Zachariah’s holy and benign care. It is reported that right from her childhood she spent most of