Jesus In India — Page 182
172 JESUS IN INDIA and remarked that Kais was an Hebrew name, whereas they themselves were Arabs, he gave Kais the name Abd Ulrasheed. . . . . . . . their attachment to the Faith would, in strength, be like the wood upon which they lay the keel when constructing a ship, which wood the seamen call Pathan: on this account he conferred upon Abd Ulrasheed the title of Pathan also. . . The Prophet at length dismissed Abd Ulrasheed to return to Ghor and the adjacent Kohistan, there to propa- gate the new faith, and to direct the infidels to it. Part 2- page 63 (Under word ‘Suleimani'). Muhabbat Khan tells us, that they are called so by the Arabs in conse- quence of their belonging to the adherents and followers of King Solomon. Pages 63-64. Bani Afghanah, Bani Afghan; that is, Children of Asif, Israel, Afghanah, or Afghan. These names are mentioned by Fareed Uddeen Ahmad, in his Risalah Ansab Afaghinah, where we find the following passage:-"When, in the course of time, Bokhtnassr the magician, who subdued the Bani Israel and the territories of Syria, and sacked Jerusalem, led the Children of Israel into captivity and slavery, and carried off with him sev- eral tribes of this people who were attached to the Law of Moses, and ordered them to adore him for God, and to abandon the creed of their fathers, they did not consent to this: upon which, he put two thousand of the wisest and most skilful of them to death, and ordered the rest to quit Syria and his dominions. Part of them, who had a chief,