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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books The Moral Stories The Chosen Five Dignitaries of Islam A MIRACULOUS DISCOVERY OF SIXTY YEARS AGO. It was in the year 1916 when the First World War was raging. A British Military patrol party was passing near a village named Ontra, a few miles from Jerusalem in Palestine. Suddenly the military party observed a strange light in the darkness of the night. It was coming from a very old small hillock. The officer-in-charge ordered digging it.

After digging twelve feet deep, they came across a silverplate about two feet long and one and half feet wide. When the plate was taken out, its light disappered. The party took the plate to their Commander Major A.N. Grandell who scrutinised the plate in torch light and was wonderstruck. The border of the plate was inset with precious stones and in the centre of the plate, something was written in gold in some unknown language. Major Grandell sent the plate to the Commander of the Armies Lieutt.

General D.O. Gladstone. He in turn sent it to the British Archeological Department. At the end of the war in 1919, research began into this unique plate. A committee of experts of ancient languages consisting of British, French, American and others was appointed.

After many months of strenuous research, it was found that the inscriptions on the plate were in old Hebrew language used in the Old Testament (of the Bible.) On 31st January, 1920 the following translation was submitted: In Hebrew Language. Yah Ahmad Maqza Yah Eli Ansatah Yah Bahtool Akashi Yah Hasan Azofata Yah Hasin ba Rafo Eli, Eli, Eli, English Translation.

Reach O' Ahmad 0' Ali, help me 0' Batool, keep an eye 0' Hasan, Be Kind 0' Husain, grant us happiness Ali - Ali - Ali After the translation by experts, it was decided that the silver plate should be kept in the archives of British Imperial Museum for display. But when the Lord Bishop of England came to know of it, he sent a directive on 1st March, 1923, that the keeping of this plate in the museum or any other public place would work against Christianity.

The plate therefore must be kept in Secret Church Chambers. Thus it was kept and it is still there in the same place. The above mentioned discovery has been, quoted from "The Wonderful Stories of Islam" by Col. P. C. Implay, London, page 249, by the Ahmed Hussein Shah, Advocate, in his book 'The Straight Path'.