Jesus In India — Page 141
CHAPTER FOUR 131 were the descendants of Asif and Afghan took refuge in Arabia. The Arabs used to address them as Beni Israel and Beni Afghan. ¹ On pages 37 and 38 of the same book, on the authority of the author of Majmaʻul-Ansāb, and that of Mestoufi, the author of Tārīkh Gazīdah, it is stated that in the lifetime of the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, Khalid bin Walid invited the Afghans to Islam, who, after Bokhtnasser's invasion, had taken up residence in the Ghor territory. The Afghan chiefs under the leadership of Qais, who was Talut's descendant in the 37th generation, came to pay their homage to the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. Qais was named Abdul Rashid by the Holy Prophet, may peace and bless- ings of Allah be upon him (Here the genealogy of Abdul Rashid Qais is traced back to Talut—Saul). The Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, also conferred the title of Pathan on the chiefs which means 'ship's rudder. After some time the chiefs returned to their territory and began to preach Islam. In the same book Makhzan-i-Afghani on page 63, it is recorded that Farid-ud-Din Ahmad makes the following state- ment concerning the titles Beni Afghanah or Beni Afghan, in his book Risalah Ansaab-i-Afghaniyyah: After Nebuchadnezzar, the Magian, had subjugated the Israelites, conquered the Syrian territories and sacked Jerusalem, he took the Israelites prison- ers and exiled them as slaves. He took away with him several of their tribes who followed the Mosaic Law, and ordered them to renounce their ancestral faith and to worship him instead of God, which they refused to do. Consequently, Nebuchadnezzar put to 1. Meaning the children of Israel and the children of Afghan. [Publisher]