I descended from the ancient Jews?
Published by Haseeb September 14th, 2005 in PersonalPossibly…
After reading Amir’s post on Pashtuns were Jews?, I did some further reading and there is a leading theory that suggests that Pathans (my mom is a Pathan) may have descended from the ancient Israelites (the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel).
What do i think about this… lol its cool.
Its always great to learn about ones past and historical background.
According to The Israeli Source of the Pathan Tribes:
Who are the Pathans? …. They identify themselves with their former name ‘sons of Israel’, even though nowadays they live as Muslims. In Afghanistan they are said to number six to seven million, and in Pakistan seven to eight million. Two million of them live as beduins. Outwardly, the Pathans are similar to the Jews.
The Pathans are known for their physical strength. They are tall, light-coloured and handsome, good soldiers and for the most part bear arms from a young age. They are diligent and intelligent, faithful to an exemplary degree and are known in the world as outstanding hosts.
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The Panthim (Pathans?) are not similar in their outward appearance or in their character to any of the ethnic groups which populate this environment: the Indian group-Iranians, Mongolians, Turks or Persians. Most of the researchers are of the opinion that the origin of the Pathans is indeed Israeli.
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There is interesting evidence about the preservation among the tribes of family trees on their origin, and on their relationship to the fathers of the Israeli people. These family trees are well preserved. Some of them are penned in golden lettering on deerskin. The names of the tribes speak for themselves: the tribe of Harabni (in the Afghan tongue) is the tribe of Reuben, the shinwari is Shimeon, the Levani – Levi, Daftani – Naftali, Jaji – Gad, Ashuri – Asher, Yusuf Su, sons of Josef, Afridi – Ephraim, and so on.
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The British, who ruled Afghanistan for a long time, found it difficult to distinguish between the Pathans and the Jews, and called the Pathans ‘Juz’ - Jews. The Jews, too found it hard to distinguish between themselves and the Pathans when the latter are not wearing traditional dress. Afghanistan has about 21 peoples and languages and only the Pathans, apart from the Jews, look clearly Semitic
Mystery of the 10 Lost Tribes
It is interesting to note that the Pathans retain family names of the Lost Tribes such as Asher, Gad, Naphtali, Reuben and Manasseh and Ephraim. Among them there are people who are called by these names, which are of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel.
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The region has archeological finds testifying to a Hebrew past, and they also resemble Jews of the area and their language Pashtu surprisingly has many Hebrew words. The Pathans are also called Afghans, or sons of the Pashtu which is their language, were mostly called “Bani-Israel” meaning children of Israel even though they live today as devout Muslims.
The external appearance of the Pathans resemble the Jews of the area. Together with their ancient customs and other data there is a definite connection that can be made to the Tribes of Israel.
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The priest Monstrat said that in the time of Vasco da Gama in the 15th century, “all the inhabitants of this area who have been living here since ancient times can trace their ancestry, according to their race and customs, to the ancient Israelites. Their features, their general physical appearance, their clothing, their ways of conducting business, all show that they are similar to the ancient Israelites.”
Very interesting indeed… 
wow, wait till naveed reads this! hahah
All i can say is, this explains a lot.
a lot.
This means that Afghans followed Islam for an intensly long period of their history…going back to Moses, and they continued all the way down to the time of Muhammad…Afghans Rock!
true that afghans do rock!
who gives a crap. i descended from tyrannosaurus rex. beat that.
Haseeb you stink of Jew.
oh God,
website about jewish converts to islam. it is interesting for da’wah purposes to the jews.
must you be so immature about this discovery.
I actually knew about this stuff from jewsfor Allah
Someone forgot to give Haseeb the memo on Pathans being tall and handsome. Maybe I’m not Punjabi, but Pathan.
It is an old theory.i think the extract above is quite old.
anyway
A scientific paper was released in 2004 (may/june) finding genetic evidence to suggest that pathans and greeks have some similar genes.
This would make sense as Alexander the Great and his army did reach that part of the world and known to have settled.
i think it was published in the journal of human genetics…..
there is also some research into the descendants of the mongolian genghis khan.
again north west of pakistan.
You know, you could show this evidence and then get a free trip to Israel through Hillel. Birthright to return…
Come back home brothers and maybe when you get here you can show our crazy cousins how to behave themselves.
Many pashtun people may be israelites
you just have to look at their faces - jewish faces , and beautiful if I might say.
It is very exciting for me as an european jew
I wish them all the best .
U call us brothers and yet we all r dying for u