Pathans Are Children Of Israel

Salam,
I got this email from email with the sources! What do you think of this?
Is this claim true or wrong?

Any Way I am looking forward your ideas!

Thanks

BISMILLAHIR RAHMAAN NIR RAHEEM

Assalaamu alaykum wa rahmatuallahi wa barakatuhu

MUSLIMS FROM THE LOST TRIBES OF ISRAEL THE PATHANS /PASHTUN /PAKHTUN /AFGHAN OF AFGHANISTAN & PAKISTAN ARE THE CHILDERN OF PROPHET YAQUB (ISRAEL) AND PROPHET ISHAQ (ISAAC) Alay Salam

By Muhammad Kundi

Quran tells the 2 Divisions of Progeny of Prophet Ishaq

037.113 وَبَارَكْنَا عَلَيْهِ وَعَلَى إِسْحَاقَ وَمِنْ ذُرِّيَّتِهِمَا مُحْسِنٌ وَظَالِمٌ لِنَفْسِهِ مُبِينٌ
We blessed him and Isaac: but of their progeny are (some) that do ight, and (some) that obviously do wrong, to their own souls. 1) Muslims The Pathans) & (2) Non Muslims (The Jews) Are THE TWO PARTS OF THE FAMILY OF PROPHET ISHAQ(Alayhay Salam)

BISMILLAHIR RAHMAAN NIR RAHEEM
The Pathan or Pashtun or Pakhtun or Ethnic Afghan are are an thnic/religious group of people, living primarily in Afghanistan, Pakistan, who speak Pashto or Pakhto language and indigenous religion. The Pashtuns are the world's largest patriarchal tribal group in existence. he total population of the group is estimated at 52 million.
Pathans are the largest ethnic group in Afghanistan. Infact the word Afghan is synonymous to Pashtun as told in the following reference:
The word Afghan ... first appears in history in the Hudud-al-Alam, a work by an Arab geographer who wrote in 982 A.D." Until the advent of the modern Afghan state in the 18th century, the word Afghan has been synonymous with Pashtun.
The theory that the Pashtun or "ethnic Afghan"s are descended from
the ancient Israelites—more precisely, from the perspective of Jewish history the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel— has a longstanding basis as a tradition among the Pashtun themselves, was widely accepted by 19th century British scholars, and has been accepted by some reasonably recent and prominent individuals such as Itzhak Ben-Zvi, second President of Israel. Ref: http://www.pakhtun.com/israeliSourc e.htm

THE CLAIM BY THE PATHANS AS BEING FROM BANI ISRAEL IS NOT JUST ORAL TRADITION
The claim of Afghans to be the Bani Israel (Children of Israel) is not founded on oral tradition alone. It is supported by ancient monuments, old inscriptions, manuscripts, and historical works, many in the public domain, and many others in private collections.
WRITTEN REFERENCES OLDER THAN 1000 YEARS TELLS THE TRUTH Apart from our own reference ,the oldest written reference we find is HUDUD-AL-ALAM written in 982AD by an Arab Geographer which clearly tells that PATHANS are not from ARAYANs but from BANI ISRAEL(infact he never mentioned the word ARAYAN)

Also the word Afghan ... first appears in history in the Hudud-al-Alam and in fact until the advent of the modern Afghan state in the 18th century, the word Afghan has been synonymous with Pashtun.

Now in modern times some of the Western Historians tell us that the Pathans are from the ARYANS and deny the ancient claim of the Pashtuns that they belong to the Lost tribes of Israel.
This doesn’t make any sense that someone from outside deny the claim of a whole Nation
ONE EXAMPLE OF A 700 YEAR OLD REFERENCE TELLING DETAILS ABOUT PATHANS ORIGIN
One of the most ancient manuscripts available is Rauza ul Albab fi Tawarikh-ul- Akabir wal Ansab – The Garden of the Learned in the History of Great Men and Genealogies – by Abu Suleman Daud bin Abul Fazal Muhammad Albenaketi which was written in 1317 AD.
The author in his Introduction explains that ever since the times of Moses the ancestors of Afghans have had to face great hardships. They were expelled from place to place and exterminated. Their ancient ancestors were sacked more than once and carried into captivity. In Chapter I a detailed history of Yaqub (Jacob) is given and in Chapter II the genealogies of the Afghan tribes are further traced.

SUDDEN TWIST OF OPINIONS BY THE SO CALLED WESTERN HITORIANS
All the British Scholars in the 19th century never mentioned that Pathans are Aryans. Then suddenly some so called historians of the modern times in West claimed that Pathans/Pashtuns/ Pakhtuns are Aryans and denied the claim of the Pathans of being from the Lost Tribes of Israel. One Un Biased Writer has said: "The Europeans always confuse things, when they consider the fact that the Afghans call themselves Bani Israel and yet reject their Jewish descent. Indeed, the Afghans discard the very idea of any descent from the Jews. They, however, yet claim themselves to be of Bani Israel." [Thomas Ledlie, More Ledlian, Calcutta Review, January, 1898]
If Pathans are ARAYANs then so are the MARHATAS or The BERHAMAN Hindus, The Kashmiri Hindu Pundits, The Punjabi Arian Caste, The Jatt cast of Punjab, the Germans and so many numerous castes...... it makes a strange situation when we say That Ahmad Shah Abdali was Fighting with the Pathans who were non Muslims i.e the MARHATAS....
It doesn’t make sense since the Physical n Facial features of Pathans are entirely different from the Marhatas and PunjabisThese are all wrong claims put forward by some modern writers .The fact is that if Pathan's forefather have always called themselves as from the Children of Prophet Israel then how come some modern day Western Writers deny this fact The real intention is only to change the meaning of ahadith which lead to the fact of Pathans being the Bani Israelis...u can find many references about this at
[*]The declaration of saying that PATHANS are Aryans come from some modern days writers of the WEST and NOT FROM A SINGLE REFERENCE OF THE PAST or FROM THE REFERENCES OF OUR OWN FORFATHERS

It is a pity that we follow the reference of the people who were in dark ages for a thousand years (from 400 AD to 1400 AD),who had lost all sources of knowledge, history and culture in these 1000 years of darkness and who developed when they interacted with the Muslims in the Crusades which they never admit this .According to Quran ,Sura
Al-Hujurat, verse No=6 49/6 يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا إِنْ جَاءَكُمْ فَاسِقٌ بِنَبَإٍ فَتَبَيَّنُوا أَنْ تُصِيبُوا قَوْمًا بِجَهَالَةٍ فَتُصْبِحُوا عَلَى مَا فَعَلْتُمْ نَادِمِينَ
O you who believe! if an evil-doer comes to you with a report, look carefully into it,…This verse tells us to be careful from the reports of the non believers The WEST tell us that the Pathans are from the ARYANS and deny the ancient claim of the Pashtuns that they belong to the Lost tribes of Israel. It’s a funny thing to call Pasthuns as Arayans as the PUNJABI people, The Kashmiris and so many ethnic groups in India belong to the ARYANS and they have nothing in common with the Pathans. May Allah guide us all amen(allahuma salay ala Muhammad).


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THE PROOF
Let us prove the fact first by the ahadith of Dear Prophet(salallaho alayhe wa sallam) PROOF IN AHADITH OF DEAR PROPHET MUHAMMAD (Salallaho alayhay wa sallam)
According to Ahadith the main signs of the majority of the Muslims (and the first followers) of the forces of Imam Mahdi are the following.
1. They will come from the East
2. They will come from the historical geographical region of Ancient Khorasan.
3. They will be from a mighty warrior nation.
4. They will be from a poor Nation.
5. They are from a place with cold climate.
6. They will be from the race of Bani Ishaq/Al-e-Haroon/ Bani-Israel or Nation of ….liberated slaves (They all have the same meaning)

Now which race among the Muslims have all these 5 Sign?
The Pathans living in Afghanistan and Pakistan have all these 6 signs because:
1. They live in the East.
2. They are the only people among Muslims considered to be among the lost tribes of Israel i.e from Bani Israel/Bani Ishaq/Al e Haroon /Nation of liberated slaves.
3. They live in the region of ancient Khorasan.
4. They belong to very poor nation.
5. They are considered to be a fierce Warrior Race.
6. They are from a place with cold climate.

Now the Ahadith are telling that in the East , in the Historical Region of
Khorasan,in the cold mountainous climate there exists a Warrior Race which belong to the family of Propher Ishaq (Isaq)Alayhay Salam who is the father of Prophet Jacob or Israel (Alayhay Salam).
This proves that the Pathans are from the Lost Tribes of Israel and no other Nation is pointed out in these references from the Ahadith

SOME IMPORTANT FACTS
Below are the names/places common among the Pathans and the Bani-Israel.
1. Pathan
Pashtoons also known as Pathans.Very few people knows that Pithon is the name of the great-grandson of King Saul, mentioned among a list of hundreds of names chronicling the descendants of the Twelve Tribes (Ref:Chronicles I , 8:35)

8:34 The son of Jonathan:Meribbaal. 8Meribbaal was the father of Micah.
8:35 The sons of Micah:Pithon, Melech, Tarea, and Ahaz.

2. AFGHANISTAN
Afghanistan is derived from "Afghana," the grandson of King Saul of the tribe of Benjamin. This Historical fact is also ignored by the "innocent" so called Western "Historians"

3. kOHAT
City in the NWFP and also Meaning: assembly in Hebrew is the second son of Levi, and father of Amram (Gen. 46:11) He came down to Egypt with Jacob, and lived to the age of one hundred and thirty-three years (Ex. 6:1.Note: The so called great Western Historians also skipped this important fact in their writings just to conceal the truth.

4. zabul
Zabul was the name of the Son or grandson of Israel and also it's the name province in Afghanistan. The fact is during the time Mahmud Ghaznavi,the whole of Afghanistan was called as ZABUL as famous poet FIRDAUSI called Mahmud as SHAH-E-ZABUL i.e King of Zabul.(Also this
is ignored by the Wicked Historians of the West)

5. khyber
A fort of Jews during the time of Dear Prophet Muhammad(sallalaho alay hay wa sallam)...and also a place on Pakistan and Afghanistan
border which also has the same meaning as that of Hebrew i.e Fort.

6. Peshawer
This city in NWFP province of Pakistan has its name and location present in the Torah, a place called HABER or HAWER is mentioned as the place of exile of the lost tribes.Now Peshawer is comprised of two parts,the word Pesh means the Pass( which can be the famous Khyber Pass) and the Hawer means city and thus PESHAWAR means the city after the pass . Ref: (Kings II,17 and 18; Chronicles 1,5). Also check in Chronicles 5:26 at http://bible.cc/1_chronicles/ 5-26.htm
"The God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgath Pilneser king of Assyria, and he carried them away,
even the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, and brought them to Halah, and Habor, and Hara, and to the river of Gozan, to this day."

7. GOZAN
(The Amu Darya):Also Gozan is mentioned in as the place of exile of the lost tribe. In Afghanistan the river Amu was also called River Gozan according to Afghani tradition.
Therefore Historian Saadia Gaon called the Amu darya al the place of exile of the lost tribe. Ref: (Kings II,17 and 18; Chronicles 1,5). Also check in Chronicles 5:26 at http://bible.cc/1_chronicles/ 5-26.htm
"The God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgath Pilneser king of Assyria, and he carried them away, even the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, and brought them to Halah, and Habor, and Hara, and to the river of Gozan, to this day."


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8.CHildern of Joseph
Yusufzai a pashtoon tribe claim to be the decendant of Joseoh(Yusuf) i.e Prophet of Bani Israel.

9. Afridis
This famous tribe of Pashtoons is named after the son of Israel called Ephraim or Afraim.

10. Karak
This is a city in Jordon(formally part of ancient Jewish state and also its a city in NWFP province of Pakistan.

11. Lugar
A province in Afghanistan and also a name of present day Israeli family name, not to forget the famous wrestler LEX LUGAR.

12. Kabul
Kabul is capital of Afghanistan and its a Hebrew word .Cab means unpleasant(or dirty) and bul means city meaning unpleasant city.

13. KHAN
Most Pathans use KHAN in their names which resembles COHEN used in Jewish names.Also in Israel there is a city called YOUNUS KHAN with the word KHAN in it.

14. TAKHT-E-SULEAMAN
This is the name of a place in the Pashtun area of Pakistan .It means the Throne of the Israeli King and also the Prophet Hazart Suleman (Alayhay Salam). This place is situated in the mountain ranges also named after King Solomon (Hazrat Suleman) as Koh-e-Suleman.

15. HARAT
Also a place called HARA is mentioned in as the place of exile of the lost tribes and HARAT is a famous city in Afghanistan. Ref: (Kings II,17 and 18; Chronicles 1,5). Also check in Chronicles 5:26 at http://bible.cc/1_chronicles/ 5-26.htm
"The God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgath Pilneser king of Assyria, and he carried them away, even
the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, and brought them to Halah, and Habor, and Hara, and to the river of Gozan, to this day."

16. KASH/KISH
Kish/Kash is is the name of numerous personalities mentioned in the Chronicles,all from the Bani-Israel, .like 1) A Levite of the family of Merari (1 Chr. 23:21; 24:29) ,(2.) A Benjamite of Jerusalem
(1 Chr. 8:30; 9:36), (3.) A Levite in the time of Hezekiah (2 Chr.
29:12).
In Afghanistan many places are named after Kash/Kish,like the desert
of Dasht-I-Kash, lies in the north of the Helmund., the city of KASH which is mentioned in the map of Afghanistan 1912 in the Library of Congress USA, the main mountain ranges of Afghanistan also called the HINDU-KUSH and KASH ROD in Nimroz province .

17. MADIAN
In Bible history, Madian was where Israeli Prophet Hazrat Musa(alayhay salam) spent the 40 years between the time that he left Egypt after killing an Egyptian who had been beating a Hebrew (Ref:Exodus 2:11-15).
In the Pathan area of SWAT valley in Pakistan there is also a city with the same name as MADIAN.

18. DASHT-YAHOODI (The Jewish Plain)
There is a famous place in the district MARDAN in Pakistan which is called Dasht-e-Yahoodi since its existence. (Reference : (H.W. Bellew,
An Enquiry into the Ethnography of Afghanistan, 34),

19. KILLA YAHOODI( THE FORT OF JEWS)
TA place at the eastern boundry of the subcontinent (the Afghanistan border)is called KILLA YAHOODI (The fort of Jews) (Reference : H.W. Bellew, An Enquiry into the Ethnography of Afghanistan, 34

PLACES OF EXILE
In the he biblical Book Isaiah it is said :
Isaiah 11:11-12 :and he will raise a Banner to the Gentiles and will gather the banished of Israel ,and the dispersed of Judah will he bring together from the four corners of the earth".
The places of exile of the lost tribes also mentioned in the books also point out the present day Afghanistan.
The Locations of the Exile. Other locations mentioned as placed of exile were the river Gozan, Habor, . Halah or Lahlah, and Hara. (Ref:Kings II,17 and 18; Chronicles 1,5).
Also check in Chronicles 5:26 at http://bible.cc/1_chronicles/ 5-26.htm
"The God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the
spirit of Tilgath Pilneser king of Assyria, and he carried them away, even the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, and brought them to Halah, and Habor, and Hara, and to the river of Gozan, to this day."
Where are these places of Exile?
According to Saadia Gaon, " River Gozan " is the river north of the city of Balach in the north of Afghanistan. The river is known today as the " Amu Darya ", and is the border between Afghanistan and Russia. Afghanistan tradition states that the whole river was once known as the Gozen River.
"Habor" is located in the pass between Afghanistan and Pakistan , and is called Pesh-Habor in Afghani (Pesh means Pass) after the city of the pass. The city is known today as Peshawar.
"Hara" is the city of Harat near the Persian border. It is the third largest city in Afghanistan . The prophecy of Isaiah states that the exile will bring the tribes to the land of Sinim":
"Behold , these shall come from far, and , lo, these from the north and from the west, and these from the land of Sinim "( Isaiah 49:12) .
This implies that the exile may have started


CLOTHES LIKE CHILDERN OF ISRAEL
Narrated Hazrat Umama reported Rasulullah (Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam) said: You and the Romans(Christians) will have four peace treaties *4. The fourth peace would be at the hand of a person who would be from the Al-e-Haroon( family of Prophet Haroon).This peace treaty would be for seven years. Rasulullah (Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam) was asked who would be the Imam of the Muslims at that time. Rasulullah (Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam) said" That person would be from my family,his age would be 40 years ,his face would be bright as a start and a black spot would be on his right cheek.He would be wearing two Qutwani Cloaks.He will appear exactly as the person from Bani Israeel. He will rule for 20 years and will conquer the cities of the Mushrikeen(Idolater s)_Ref: Kanz-ul-Aamal, Page 268, Hadith No 3868).______ _________ _________ ________
WHAT IS MEANT BY QUTWANI CLOAKS ?

According to the reference of the kafirs i.e Britannica 1997 :Qutwani cloaks resembles the "TALLIT" of present day as called by the Israelis. Both Qutwani cloak and TALLIT have fringes (tzitzit) on borders and
its mostly made of Wool.. It generally falls across the head, neck, and
shoulders. However the Qutwani cloak is larger and more conspicuous prayer shawl than the Tallit.
Now according to the Hadith there are "Two" Qutwani cloaks mentioned
and are made of Wool (as many scholars described it ) and are wrapped around the body.Qutwani cloak is exactly like the cloaks worn by the Pashtoons of Afghanistan and Pakistan and its also worn in the same way like the Qutwani cloak described in the hadith and its explanation.
The Pashtuns wrap these cloak around them to protect them from cold weather and they have fringes on the borders.Infact these cloaks are often the necessary part of the Pashtun dress (In Contrast to the present day jews who wear the so called Tziitzit as a symbol and which are much smaller to be wrapped around the body.infact it has just become a something to show off by jews and not essential part of dress).
http://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/Tallit

The above mentioned hadith telling that Imam Mahdi would be from the family of Dear Prophet (salallaho alayhay wa sallam) but would NOT look like Dear Prophet(salallaho alayhay wa sallam) in appearance clearly tells that Mahdi will not be living among the Arabs .His appearance described as wearing Qutwani cloaks and looking like a person from Bani Israel shows that he must have been living among the Pathans for a long time and therefore IMAM MAHDI would be dressed also like the Pathans.

The Arabs Do not wrap cloaks around them like this and also their cloaks never have fringes and are not made of wool because is not so cold in middle east.

THE UN-RELIABLE SOURCES OF INFORMATION
According to Quran ,Sura Al-Hujurat, verse No=6 (The following are three translations of the verse.)
49/6 يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا إِنْ جَاءَكُمْ فَاسِقٌ بِنَبَإٍ فَتَبَيَّنُوا أَنْ تُصِيبُوا قَوْمًا بِجَهَالَةٍ فَتُصْبِحُوا عَلَى مَا فَعَلْتُمْ نَادِمِينَ
YUSUFALI: O ye who believe! If a wicked person comes to you with any news, ascertain the truth….
PICKTHAL: O ye who believe! If an evil-liver bring you tidings, verify it……
SHAKIR: O you who believe! if an evil-doer comes to you with a report, look carefully into it,…
The tragedy is that now majority of the world believes in the news, history and other reports that come from the Kafirs of the West and is accepted with the eyes closed with no investigation as the Quran tells us to do so. Priority is given to the reference of those people who had been in dark ages for one thousand years in which they lost all their own knowledge and culture.They started learning was in the 1400 A.Ds after their interaction with the Muslims in the Crusades. A Kafir from the West would tell us the History of India and we will put aside our own written history . Maybe inferiority complex(for no reason) is the cause of such folly. It is for that reason, such unreliable resources are as much avoided as possible in this essay


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Moore goes on to say: "Sir William Jones, Sir John Malcolm and the missing Chamberlain, after full investigation, were of the opinion that
the Ten Tribes migrated to India, Tibet, and Cashemire [Kashmir] through Afghanistan." [[George Moore, The Lost Tribes]
Moore has mentioned only three eminent writers on the subject. But reference can also be made to General Sir George Macmunn (Afghanistan from Darius to Amanullah, 215), Col. [G.B. Malleson (The History of Afghanistan from the Earliest Period to the outbreak of the War of 1878, 39), Col. Failson, (History of Afghanistan, 49), George Bell (Tribes of Afghanistan, 15), E. Balfour (Encyclopedia of India, article on Afghanistan) , Sir Henry Yule (Encyclopedia Britannica, article on Afghanistan) , and the Hon. Sir George Rose (Rose, The Afghans, the Ten Tribes and the Kings of the East, 26). They, one and all, independently came to the same conclusion. Another, Major H.W. Bellew, went on a political mission to Kandahar and published his impressions in his Journal of a Mission to Kandahar, 1857-8. He then wrote in 1879 his book Afghanistan and Afghans. In 1880 he was sent, once again on another mission to Kabul, and in the same year he delivered two lectures before the United Services Institute at Simla: "A New Afghan Question, or "Are the Afghans Israelites?" and "Who are the
Afghans?" He then published another book: The Races of Afghanistan.
Finally he collected all his facts in An Enquiry into the Ethnography of
Afghanistan, which was published in 1891.
In this work he mentions Killa Yahoodi ("Fort of the Jews") (H.W. Bellew, An Enquiry into the Ethnography of Afghanistan, 34), as being the name
of the eastern boundary of their country, and also speaks of Dasht-i-Yahoodi ("Jewish plain") (ibid., 4), a place in Mardan District. He
concludes: "The Afghan's accounts of Jacob and Esau, of Moses and the Exodus, of the Wars of the Israelites with the Amalekites and conquest of Palestine, of the Ark of the Covenant and of the election of Saul to the Kingdom, etc., etc., are clearly founded on the Biblical records, and clearly indicate a knowledge of the Old Testament, which if it does not prove the presence of the Christians at least corroborates their assertion that the Afghans were readers of the Pentateuch up to the time of the appearance of Mohammad." (Ibid., 191)
Note, it is well understood and undisputed that there have never been Christian communities in Afghanistan pre- or for many centuries after the dawn of Islam.
Thomas Ledlie wrote an article in the Calcutta Review, which he subsequently elaborated and published in two volumes. He expressed his views on the subject very clearly: "The Europeans always confuse things, when they consider the fact that the Afghans call themselves Bani Israel and yet reject their Jewish descent. Indeed, the Afghans discard the very idea of any descent from the Jews. They, however, yet claim themselves to be of Bani Israel." [Thomas Ledlie, More Ledlian, Calcutta Review, January, 1898]
Ledlie goes on to explain: "Israelites, or the Ten Tribes, to whom the term Israel was applied – after their separation from the House of David, and the tribe of Judah, which tribe retained the name of Judah and had a distinct history ever after. These last alone are called Jews and are
distinguished from the Bani Israel as much in the East as in the West." [Ibid., 7]
Among more contemporary writers Dr. Alfred Edersheim says: "Modern
investigations have pointed to the Nestorians and latterly, with almost
convincing evidence (so far as it is possible) to the Afghans as descendants from the Lost Tribes." [Dr. Alfred Edersheim, The Life and Times of Jesus, the Messiah, 15]
Sir Thomas Holditch in his The Gates of India says: "But there is one important people (of whom there is much more to be said) who call themselves Bani Israel, who claim a descent from Cush and Ham, who have adopted a strange mixture of Mosaic Law in Ordinances in their moral code, who (some sections at least) keep a feast which strongly accords with the Passover,... and for whom no one has yet been able to suggest any other origin than the one they claim, and claim with determined force, and these people are the overwhelming inhabitants of Afghanistan." – Sir Thomas Holditch, The Gates of India, 49.
There are many additional references, recorded incidents, manuscripts and artifacts related to the Hebraic history of the Pashtuns for the dedicated objective researcher who seeks them out.
In his 1957 classic The Exiled and the Redeemed, Itzhak Ben-Zvi, second President of Israel, writes that Hebrew migrations into Afghanistan began, "with a sprinkling of exiles from Samaria who had been transplanted there by Shalmaneser, King of Assyria (719 BC). From
the recurrent references in the Book of Esther to the "one hundred and
twenty seven dominions" of King Ahasuerus, the deduction is permissible
that eastern Afghanistan was among them." [[The Exiled and the Redeemed, 176]
Ben-Zvi continues, "The Afghan tribes, among whom the Jews have lived for generations, are Moslems who retain to this day their amazing tradition about their descent from the Ten Tribes. It is an ancient tradition, and one not without some historical plausibility. A number of explorers, Jewish and non-Jewish, who visited Afghanistan
from time to time, and students of Afghan affairs who probed into literary sources, have referred to this tradition, which was also discussed in several encyclopedias in European languages. The fact that this tradition, and no other, has persisted among these tribes is itself a weighty consideration.
Nations normally keep alive memories passed by word of mouth from generation to generation, and much of their history is based not on written records but on verbal tradition. This was particulary so in the case of the nations and the communities of the Levant. The people of the Arabian Peninsula, for example, derived all their knowledge of an original pagan cult, which they abandoned in favor of Islam, from such verbal tradition. So did the people of Iran, formerly worshipers of the
religion of Zoroaster; the Turkish and Mongol tribes, formerly Buddhists and Shamanists; and the Syrians who abandoned Christianity in favor of Islam. Therefore, if the Afghan tribes persistently adhere to the tradition that they were once Hebrews and in course of time embraced Islam, and there is not an alternative tradition also existent among them, the matter certainly deserves careful and critical examination." [The Exiled and the Redeemed]

OTHER REFRENCES:
Emperor Jahangir of the MUghal Dynasty ordered his courtier to search for the origin of the Pashtoons and so the famous book "Makhzan e Afghani" was written in 1635,which also confirms the orgin of Pashtoons from the lost tribes According to the tradition, King Saul had a son called Jeremiah who had a son called Afghana. Jeremiah died at about the time of King Saul's death and Afghana was raised by King David and remained in the royal court during King Solomon's reign. About 400 years later in the time of disorder of Israel, the Afghana family fled to a land called Gur which is in central Afghanistan.

They settled and traded with the people of the area and in the year 662, with the arrival of Islam, the sons of Israel in Gur converted to the
prophet with 7 representatives of the Afghan. The leader of the sons of Israel was Qais like the name of Saul's father.
According to this tradition Dear Prophet Muhammad(Salallaho alayhay wa sallam), rewarded them and Qais's Hebrew name was changed to Arab-A-Rashid by Dear Prophet Muhammad(Salallaho alayhay wa sallam)
Qais Abdul Rasheed married Sara, the daughter of Khalid Bin Waleed RA(the famous companion of Dear ProphetMuhammad( Salallaho alayhay wa sallam), · The Nawab of Hoti, Sir Akbar Khan, writes in his famous book "The Corrigendum of an Historic Fact" that in 570 BC, the King of Babul Bukht Nasir ordered the two grandsons of Afghana, Armia and Burkhia, to settle the Bin Yamin tribes in his kingdom. Hence they
brought their old grandfather to the hills of Herat and started living there.
· Khwaja Nazer Ahmad proves in his book "Christ in Heaven on Earth"… . that the Pashtoons belong to the lost tribes of Israel.
· Abdul Salim in his book "Nasab Afghana" that Pushtoons trace back to the Jews.
· Some ,other references are the following:
1. Spain,
James W. The Way of the Pathans Oxfor Univ. Press 1962 pp. 27-29.
2. The book "THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL (English)"
Rabbi Eliyahu Avichail. Copyright 5750 by Amishav. This book is the result of 25 years research of Rav Eliyahu Avichail´s research and fieldwork regarding the descendants of the Ten Tribes exiled from the Land of Israel 2,700 years ago.
3. ."The banished of Israel" ( By Yitzhak Ben Tzvi – Fromer President of Israel).
4. "New light on Zion". (By Mr Avraham Zonenshein).
5. "Rabbi Eliyahu Avichail" ( Rechov Epstein « 3B – Jerusalem, Israel 96555.
6. Websites for reference:
http://www.nationmaster.com/ encyclopedia/ Pathan
http://www.dangoor.com/74069. html
http://www.dangoor.com/74039. html
http://www.jewishvi rtuallibrary. org/jsource/ vjw/Afghanistan.html
http://www.kulanu.org/pathan/ israeliteorigins .html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Bnai_Israel

CONCLUSION:
ITS IS REALLY A STRANGE THINS THAT ALL THE OLDER REFERENCES ADMIT THE AUTHENTICITY OF THE CLAIM OF PATHANS AS THE LOST TRIBES OF ISRAEL BUT THE MODERN DAY SO CALLED WESTERN SCHOLARS ARE TRYING THEIR BEST TO DENY THIS FACT BECAUSE BY DENYING THIS FACT, THE MEANING OF THE AHADITH CAN CHANGE AND NO ONE WILL KNOW WHICH RACE IS MENTIONED IN THA HADITH
Note:Definition of Cronicles: Also called (in early Roman Catholic translation into English) PARALIPOMENON I AND II, two Old Testament books that were originally part of a larger work that included the books of Ezra and Nehemiah.
These three (Ezra and Nehemiah were one book in the Jewish canon) were the final books of the Hebrew Bible

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I think it's not true. Pasthuns are not a homogenous people. They might have some Jewish ancestry, but I think they are also mixed with Turks and Aryans.

Dear Amina Sister,
thanks so much for point!
I need to know the veiw of others!
I got this from email and post for the people.
onething, when I was in Peshawar I saw this on one of the newspapers or book i do not remember and contacted one of my teachers who is from Logar and Ahmadzai Tribe, he accepted this, this is ok!


Thanks