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Nazir Ahmad (Urdu: خواجہ نذیر احمد ; December 2, 1897 – 1970) was an

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writer. After experiments with Hinduism and Christianity he converted back to Islam in 1919 and in 1923, aged 25, became

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's mosque. He returned to become a Senior Advocate of the Federal Court of Pakistan and an Advocate of His Majesty's High Court of Judicature at Lahore. Prior to the

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in 1948, he toured Kashmir with

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, editor of the Ahmadiyya weekly paper in Srinagar, looking for evidence supporting the claim of

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made in 1899, that the

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shrine of the holy man Yuz Asaf in

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is the grave of Jesus of Nazareth. In 1952 he published his ''Jesus in heaven on earth'' (English Edition, Lahore and Woking, 1952) Khwaja Nazir Ahmad ''Jesus in Heaven on Earth'' 1952 - Page 362 "Waqiat-i-Kashmir, Jannat Nazeer Gohar-i-Alam Tuhfa-tus-Shah. The MSS. (No. 189) is with the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal. Referring to the tomb of Yuz Asaf he says : The assertion of the people of knowledge is that one of the disciples of Jesus (yake az hawariyoon) is buried there, from whose tomb emanates Divine grace and blessings.2 It is noteworthy that "

published his own similar book in Urdu in 1954 (English 1968).

References

External links

Nazir Ahmad's Jesus in Heaven and Earth (1978) online at AAIIL.org
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ahmad, Nazir 1897 births 1970 deaths Pakistani Ahmadis Swoon hypothesis Writers from Lahore