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Roza Bal ( Persian Roza , Kashmiri Bal , German Holy Shrine ) is the name of a shrine located on Khanyar Street in the Khanyar district of Srinagar in Kashmir , India . The shrine contains the graves of two Muslim saints - Yuz Asaf and Mir Sayyid Naseeruddin, a descendant of Mūsā al-Kāzim . Sometimes the grave of Jesus of Nazareth is venerated in the complex .

history

The shrine is mentioned in Waqi'at-i-Kashmir ( History of Kashmir ) by Muhammad Azam , a local Srinagar writer , published in 1747 .

The grave was previously guarded by members of the Ahmadiyya family (known since Ghulam Ahmad, * 1835) until tensions arose with the authorities. The grave was given to a Muslim association.

building

The tomb itself consists of a rectangular low building on an elevation, surrounded by railings at the front. It has three arches on the front through which one can enter and four arches on the side. Inside is a stone carving that is said to show feet with crucifixion marks. The body is buried according to the Jewish tradition and not according to the rules of Islam. But the building also houses the tomb of a local Muslim saint, Mir Sayyid Naseeruddin, who was buried in accordance with Islamic tendencies.

Identification of the two saints

Yuz Asaf

In Persian, in the history of Kashmir, the sanctuary is identified as the tomb of a foreign prince: Yuzasaf . Yuzasaf is an Arabic name for Siddhartha in the Arabic version of the legend of Barlaam and Josaphat - Balahwir wa-Yuzasaf .

Mirza Ghulam Ahmad claims that Yuz Asaf is really Jesus of Nazareth. The Ahmadiyya share this view . The current overseers of the shrine, of Sunni descent, reject this view. It is " blasphemy towards Islam " to believe that Jesus is buried somewhere.

A court case (known as: The Seal of Justice of the Islamic Mullah Fazil ) from 1700 concludes that Yuz Asaf came to the valley during the reign of Raja Opadatta , who built many temples. After his death he was buried in Kyanyar on the bank of a lake.

Fida Hassnain's translation of the legend of Barlaam and Josaphat , which follows Ghulam Ahmad's translation, divides the word Yuzasaf into two words: Yuz Asaf . Yuzasaf is derived from the Sanskrit word Bodhisattva . This word was changed to Bodisav in 6th or 7th century Persian texts and then to Budhasaf and Yudasaf in an 8th century Arabic document . The Arabic spelling for "b" (ﺑ) changes to "y" (ﻳ) with an additional dot .

According to an essay (1960) by David Marshall Lang , the Buddhist Yuzasaf's association with Kashmir was in part due to a typographical error in the Arabic version of Baalham and Josaphat of Mumbay , in which the place where the Buddha died is Kashmir (Arabic: كشمير) instead of Kushinagar ( Pali : كوشينر), the traditional place of Buddha's death.

Me Sayyid Naseeruddin

In 871 Anno Hegirae (1466/67 AD ) Syed Nasir-ud-Din, who was venerated as a Sufi saint by local Muslims , was buried there, although other historical data suggest that he was only a long-time caretaker of the shrine . The tomb was previously tended by local descendants of the wise. It is currently administered by a Board of Directors made up of Sunnis . Sahibzada Basharat Saleem, a former caretaker who has since died , claimed to have pedigree charts that identify him as a direct descendant of the sages buried there.

Media reception

In the thriller The Rozabal Line by Ashwin Sanghi is speculated that Jesus may have survived the crucifixion, have been traveling to India and possibly buried in Kashmir and a lineage might have left in the region.

In 2003 the BBC aired a documentary that contained a section on the story of Yuz Asaf. The title was Did Jesus Die? ("Did Jesus die?").

In 2010 an attempt was made to extract DNA from the grave in order to determine the identity of the men buried there and / or the approximate time of their death. This could also clarify claims to offspring.

See also

literature

  • Mark Bothe: The "Jesus-in-India-Legend": An alternative Jesus story? GRIN, Munich, 2011, ISBN 978-3-656-05035-3 .
  • Fida Mohamad Hassnain, Suzanne Olsson: Roza Bal, The Tomb of Jesus. Booksurge in USA, Gulshan Pub. in India 2008, ISBN 978-1-4196-9758-6 . (Examines the history of the tomb and its connection to Jesus as Yuz Asaf).
  • Suzanne Olsson: Jesus in Kashmir, The Lost Tomb. Booksurge USA, 2005, Gulshan Publishing, India.
  • Fida Mohamad Hassnain: A search for the historical Jesus . Gateway, Bath, 1994, ISBN 0-946551-99-5 .
  • Fida Mohamad Hassnain: The fifth Gospel . Dastgir Publications, Srinagar (Kashmir), 1988.
  • Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad: Jesus in India: a representation of Jesus escaping from death on the cross and his journey to India . Verlag Der Islam, Frankfurt am Main, 2nd edition, 2005, ISBN 978-3-921458-39-6 .

Web links

Commons : Roza Bal  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Roza Bal Shrine in Kashmir: The Tomb of Jesus or Just a Myth? - Idealism prevails. Retrieved June 6, 2020 .
  2. ↑ TheIndianTrip: Top things to do in Srinagar - Roza Bal. Retrieved June 5, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Ahmadiyya, The | Religions in conversation. Retrieved June 8, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Jesus died in India. Retrieved June 8, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Bothe: The “Jesus-in-India-Legende” , p. 80: “However, detailed investigations suggest that Jesus may not be seen in Yuz Asaf […], which led to Josaphat and Barlaam in 1583 in the church calendar of saints was included. "
  6. ↑ Robert Volk: The writings of John of Damascus , Volume 6/1: Historia animae utilis de Barlaam et Ioasaph (spuria): Introduction . de Gruyter, Berlin, 2009, ISBN 978-3-11-019462-3 , p. 157: "Here is buried a saint who was venerated as a future Buddha in pre-Islamic times and who, according to legend, came from the West ..."
  7. ↑ Mirza Ghulam Ahmad : Masih Hindustan-mein . 1899.
  8. ↑ Günter Grönbold: Jesus in India. The end of a legend . Kösel-Verlag, Munich 1985, ISBN 3-466-20270-1 .
  9. ↑ Norbert Klatt: Jesus in India: Nikolaus Alexandrovitch Notovitch's "Unknown Life of Jesus", his life and his trip to India (= orientations and reports 13). Evangelical Central Office for Weltanschauung questions , Stuttgart, 1986, p. 24.
  10. ^ Wilhelm Schneemelcher , James Clarke (Ed.): New Testament Apocrypha , Volume 1: Gospels and Related Writings . John Knox Press, Westminster, 1991, ISBN 0-664-21878-4 , p. 87: “Günter Grönbold book Jesus in India. Das Ende einer Legende (1985) is a devastating assessment of these fantasies. "
  11. ↑ Sameer Arshad: Tomb Raider: Jesus buried in Srinagar? Times of India , May 8, 2010: “One of the caretakers of the tomb, Mohammad Amin, alleged that they were forced to padlock the shrine […] He believed that the theory that Jesus is buried anywhere on the face of the earth is blasphemous to Islam. "
  12. ↑ TheIndianTrip: Top things to do in Srinagar - Roza Bal. Retrieved June 5, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Bothe: The "Jesus-in-India legend" : "In the year 871 AH Syed Nasir-ud-Din, a descendent of Imam Musa — Raza was also buried besides the grave of Yuz — Asaph."
  14. ↑ Did Jesus die? (No longer available online.) BBC Four , December 3, 2003, archived from the original on December 3, 2003 ; accessed on July 17, 2016 (English).
  15. ↑ Did Jesus die? (No longer available online.) BBC Four / Video on Tomb of Jesus website, archived from the original January 12, 2012 ; accessed on July 17, 2016 (English).
  16. ↑ DNA Project Outline, obtain DNA from the Tomb of Jesus, Family of Jesus, Roza Bal, Yuz Asaf, rozabal. (No longer available online.) Jesus-kashmir-tomb.com, archived from the original on March 14, 2010 ; Retrieved June 7, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jesus-kashmir-tomb.com

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