Prophet Muhammad Mustafa pbuh mentioned in different Verses in the Bible.
My Christian Brothers, Open your Bibles and lets start our argument with Prophet Abrahim (PBUH) who is common in all three faiths of scripture. He (PBUH) can be called as the father of 3 Abrahamic faiths i.e. Jews, Christians & Muslims.
Genesis 12, Verse 2-3:-
2 I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing."
3 "I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you."
God honoured Abrahim (PBUH) because he was so faithful and obedient. To sum up, numbers are not important when it comes to God, what is important is that people obey Him, Worship Him & follow the Commandments.
God says here that I will bless you and will bless those who bless you.
Now who are the people who bless Abrahim (PBUH) ?
If you know the 5 daily prayers of Muslim, we recite Darood Shareef when we sit before ending the prayers:-
(English Translation)
Allahumma! Send blessings upon (Holy Prophet) Muhammad and upon the followers of (Holy Prophet) Muhammad as You sent blessings upon Ibraheem and upon the followers of Ibraheem; indeed, You are praiseworthy and glorious. Allahumma! Bless (Holy Prophet) Muhammad and the follower of (Holy Prophet) Muhammad as You blessed Ibraheem and the follower of Ibraheem; indeed, You are praise worthy and glorious.
So muslims regularly sends blessings upon Prophet Abrahim (PBUH), and no one sends as many blessings as the Muslims do.
Genesis 16, Verse 1-3 (Hagar and Ishmael)
1 Now Sarai, Abrahim's wife, had borne him no children. But she had an Egyptian slave named Hagar;
2 so she said to Abrahim , The LORD has kept me from having children. Go, sleep with my slave; perhaps I can build a family through her. Abrahim agreed to what Sarai said.
3 So after Abrahim had been living in Canaan ten years, Sarai his wife took her Egyptian slave Hagar and gave her to her husband to be his wife.
Genesis 17, Verse 4
As for me, this is my covenant with you: You will be the father of many nations."
Genesis 21, Verse 13
And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a (great) nation, because He is thy seed.
BOND WOMAN ... So who is the Bond Woman ? She is Hajar ... who was originally a slave girl, Sarah gave her to Ibrahim, to marry, to Abrahim (PBUH).
Genesis 21, Verse 17-18
17 God heard the boy crying, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, What is the matter, Hagar? Do not be afraid; God has heard the boy crying as he lies there.
18 Lift the boy up and take him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation.
It is a known fact that Arabs are the dissendents of Ishmael (PBUH). Infact the Bible call the Arabs "The Ishmaelites" i.e. descendants of Ishmael. And Arabs are infact the cousins of Bani Israel.
As we Muslims believe that Ishmael (PBUH) was a Prophet of God and He built Kaaba alongwith Abrahim (PBUH).
At the times of Jesus (PBUH), it seems very clear (alteast according to the Gospels) that the Jews were expecting three (3) particular personalities and they show it in the questioning with John the Baptist (PBUH). This is mentioned in the Gospel of John in 1st Chapter in the 21st verse.
Gospel of John Chapter 1, Verse 19-21.
19. And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent Priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou ?
20. And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ.
21. And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he saith, I am not. Art thou That Prophet? And He answered, No.
So it is very clear that these 3 Distinctive Individuals they were asking about. Messiah, Elias and That Prophet. According to the Bible, Jesus Said John the Baptist was infact Elias. Now that leaves That Prophet.
Who is That Prophet?
It means they were expecting a particular Prophet. And it is very-very clear that they were talking about who is not the Messiah & who is not Alias, He is a different personality is the Prophet referred to in the Prophesy of Deuteronomy chapter 18 verse 18:-
Deuteronomy chapter 18 verse 18
"And the Lord said to me, They have spoken that which they have spoken. I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them & he shall command them".
So here God is telling Moses (PBUH):
"I'm going to raise up a Prophet who is like you, Moses, this Prophet will be like unto you & he, & "I will raise him up from amongst their brethren" & " I will put my words in his mouth; and he will speak to them what I shall command them"
& the prophesy continues with a very stark & severe warning:
"And it shall come to pass, that whosoever does not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will take vengeance on him."
So God is warning severely that He is going to send a Prophet, he will be like Moses, he will speak in God's name, he will say what he is commanded & the people that do not follow him then God will requite them & God will take vengeance on those people if they don't follow him."
This is Deuteronomy 18. So this is very clearly That prophet. This is the Prophet that they were expecting. So the Messiah had come, Elias had come but there's one Prophet still left to come. That Prophet, the one prophesied in Deuteronomy 18.
Who is that Prophet? Who is that Prophet that had been prophesied in the 18-18?
Let's ask a question. It says "from amongst their brethren". Who are the brethren of Beni Israel?
We get a clue to this in Genesis, chapter 16 verse 12, & also Genesis 25 verse 18, both of these reverses refer to the Israelites as brethren of the Ishmaelites. So in the Bible itself the Ishmaelites are referred to as the brethren of the Israelites. And the Hebrew dictionary of the Bible, it defines brethren as personification of a group who were regarded as near kinsmen of the Israelites.
So it is very clear that "from amongst your brethren" means that God is going to raise a Prophet who will be like Moses from the Ishmaelites & "he shall speak in my name & whatever he says he does what he is commanded". Let's just read a very interesting extract from a Collins Dictionary of the Bible. And it says here, (you can see it on internet & you can get it from many different places). And lets read what it says here.
"As a statesman and lawgiver Moses is the creator of the Jewish people. He found a loose conglomeration of Semitic peoples, none of whom had been anything but a slave, and whose ideas of religion were a complete confusion. He led them out and he hammered them into a nation with a law and a national pride, and a compelling sense of being chosen by a particular God who was supreme."
NOW WAIT A MINUTE .
THE ONLY MAN in History who can be compared even remotely to him is Muhammad." There it is. Dictionary of the Bible. The only person who can be remotely compared to Moses is Muhammad. From the brethren of the Israelites God is going to raise up a Prophet.
Every time the Quran starts with a new chapter it begins "Bismillyahi Rahmani Raheem". And what does Deuteronomy 18-18 say?
"He shall speak in my name." The words that I will say - he will speak them." The Quran says the Prophet Muhammad does not speak from his own desire. It is nothing except a revelation that is revealed. When the Prophet spoke about Allah, when he spoke about God, he didn't not speak from his mind, he didn't invent things for himself, he spoke what God had commanded him, just as it had been prophesized in Deuteronomy 18-18.
Certainly Jesus is not like Moses. Jesus (PBUH) was born miraculously without a father. Muhammad & Moses both had natural fathers. Jesus was cared for by his mother. Both Moses & Muhammad were orphans from the young age. Jesus was actually a follower of the Mosaic law, whereas Moses (PBUH) brought a new law. And also Muhammad (PBUH) may God's peace & blessings be upon all of these Prophets him, He also brought a new law. Moses was expelled, Muhammad was expelled. Moses was both a leader of his people & a one who was receiving revelation - a Prophet. Similarly Muhammad was also a leader of his people & also a Prophet.
And so i'm just giving a few examples, but when we compare Moses & Muhammad we can see that both these Prophets are so similar. Who else fits that description? From the brethren, from the Ishmaelites, like unto Moses. And of course both of them preach that there is only One God, you should only worship the one God, God is not like anything in His creation & you should submit yourselves to God's divinely revealed law. This is what Moses taught, this is what Muhammad taught & as we believe of course this is what Jesus taught. Here are some amazing statements to show you indeed that Muhammad is the one foretold in the Bible.
:jazak:
The above text is from a lecture of Abdul Rahim Green.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzPbS0RCvBE
My Christian Brothers, Open your Bibles and lets start our argument with Prophet Abrahim (PBUH) who is common in all three faiths of scripture. He (PBUH) can be called as the father of 3 Abrahamic faiths i.e. Jews, Christians & Muslims.
Genesis 12, Verse 2-3:-
2 I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing."
3 "I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you."
God honoured Abrahim (PBUH) because he was so faithful and obedient. To sum up, numbers are not important when it comes to God, what is important is that people obey Him, Worship Him & follow the Commandments.
God says here that I will bless you and will bless those who bless you.
Now who are the people who bless Abrahim (PBUH) ?
If you know the 5 daily prayers of Muslim, we recite Darood Shareef when we sit before ending the prayers:-
(English Translation)
Allahumma! Send blessings upon (Holy Prophet) Muhammad and upon the followers of (Holy Prophet) Muhammad as You sent blessings upon Ibraheem and upon the followers of Ibraheem; indeed, You are praiseworthy and glorious. Allahumma! Bless (Holy Prophet) Muhammad and the follower of (Holy Prophet) Muhammad as You blessed Ibraheem and the follower of Ibraheem; indeed, You are praise worthy and glorious.
So muslims regularly sends blessings upon Prophet Abrahim (PBUH), and no one sends as many blessings as the Muslims do.
Genesis 16, Verse 1-3 (Hagar and Ishmael)
1 Now Sarai, Abrahim's wife, had borne him no children. But she had an Egyptian slave named Hagar;
2 so she said to Abrahim , The LORD has kept me from having children. Go, sleep with my slave; perhaps I can build a family through her. Abrahim agreed to what Sarai said.
3 So after Abrahim had been living in Canaan ten years, Sarai his wife took her Egyptian slave Hagar and gave her to her husband to be his wife.
Genesis 17, Verse 4
As for me, this is my covenant with you: You will be the father of many nations."
Genesis 21, Verse 13
And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a (great) nation, because He is thy seed.
BOND WOMAN ... So who is the Bond Woman ? She is Hajar ... who was originally a slave girl, Sarah gave her to Ibrahim, to marry, to Abrahim (PBUH).
Genesis 21, Verse 17-18
17 God heard the boy crying, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, What is the matter, Hagar? Do not be afraid; God has heard the boy crying as he lies there.
18 Lift the boy up and take him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation.
It is a known fact that Arabs are the dissendents of Ishmael (PBUH). Infact the Bible call the Arabs "The Ishmaelites" i.e. descendants of Ishmael. And Arabs are infact the cousins of Bani Israel.
As we Muslims believe that Ishmael (PBUH) was a Prophet of God and He built Kaaba alongwith Abrahim (PBUH).
At the times of Jesus (PBUH), it seems very clear (alteast according to the Gospels) that the Jews were expecting three (3) particular personalities and they show it in the questioning with John the Baptist (PBUH). This is mentioned in the Gospel of John in 1st Chapter in the 21st verse.
Gospel of John Chapter 1, Verse 19-21.
19. And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent Priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou ?
20. And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ.
21. And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he saith, I am not. Art thou That Prophet? And He answered, No.
So it is very clear that these 3 Distinctive Individuals they were asking about. Messiah, Elias and That Prophet. According to the Bible, Jesus Said John the Baptist was infact Elias. Now that leaves That Prophet.
Who is That Prophet?
It means they were expecting a particular Prophet. And it is very-very clear that they were talking about who is not the Messiah & who is not Alias, He is a different personality is the Prophet referred to in the Prophesy of Deuteronomy chapter 18 verse 18:-
Deuteronomy chapter 18 verse 18
"And the Lord said to me, They have spoken that which they have spoken. I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them & he shall command them".
So here God is telling Moses (PBUH):
"I'm going to raise up a Prophet who is like you, Moses, this Prophet will be like unto you & he, & "I will raise him up from amongst their brethren" & " I will put my words in his mouth; and he will speak to them what I shall command them"
& the prophesy continues with a very stark & severe warning:
"And it shall come to pass, that whosoever does not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will take vengeance on him."
So God is warning severely that He is going to send a Prophet, he will be like Moses, he will speak in God's name, he will say what he is commanded & the people that do not follow him then God will requite them & God will take vengeance on those people if they don't follow him."
This is Deuteronomy 18. So this is very clearly That prophet. This is the Prophet that they were expecting. So the Messiah had come, Elias had come but there's one Prophet still left to come. That Prophet, the one prophesied in Deuteronomy 18.
Who is that Prophet? Who is that Prophet that had been prophesied in the 18-18?
Let's ask a question. It says "from amongst their brethren". Who are the brethren of Beni Israel?
We get a clue to this in Genesis, chapter 16 verse 12, & also Genesis 25 verse 18, both of these reverses refer to the Israelites as brethren of the Ishmaelites. So in the Bible itself the Ishmaelites are referred to as the brethren of the Israelites. And the Hebrew dictionary of the Bible, it defines brethren as personification of a group who were regarded as near kinsmen of the Israelites.
So it is very clear that "from amongst your brethren" means that God is going to raise a Prophet who will be like Moses from the Ishmaelites & "he shall speak in my name & whatever he says he does what he is commanded". Let's just read a very interesting extract from a Collins Dictionary of the Bible. And it says here, (you can see it on internet & you can get it from many different places). And lets read what it says here.
"As a statesman and lawgiver Moses is the creator of the Jewish people. He found a loose conglomeration of Semitic peoples, none of whom had been anything but a slave, and whose ideas of religion were a complete confusion. He led them out and he hammered them into a nation with a law and a national pride, and a compelling sense of being chosen by a particular God who was supreme."
NOW WAIT A MINUTE .
THE ONLY MAN in History who can be compared even remotely to him is Muhammad." There it is. Dictionary of the Bible. The only person who can be remotely compared to Moses is Muhammad. From the brethren of the Israelites God is going to raise up a Prophet.
Every time the Quran starts with a new chapter it begins "Bismillyahi Rahmani Raheem". And what does Deuteronomy 18-18 say?
"He shall speak in my name." The words that I will say - he will speak them." The Quran says the Prophet Muhammad does not speak from his own desire. It is nothing except a revelation that is revealed. When the Prophet spoke about Allah, when he spoke about God, he didn't not speak from his mind, he didn't invent things for himself, he spoke what God had commanded him, just as it had been prophesized in Deuteronomy 18-18.
Certainly Jesus is not like Moses. Jesus (PBUH) was born miraculously without a father. Muhammad & Moses both had natural fathers. Jesus was cared for by his mother. Both Moses & Muhammad were orphans from the young age. Jesus was actually a follower of the Mosaic law, whereas Moses (PBUH) brought a new law. And also Muhammad (PBUH) may God's peace & blessings be upon all of these Prophets him, He also brought a new law. Moses was expelled, Muhammad was expelled. Moses was both a leader of his people & a one who was receiving revelation - a Prophet. Similarly Muhammad was also a leader of his people & also a Prophet.
And so i'm just giving a few examples, but when we compare Moses & Muhammad we can see that both these Prophets are so similar. Who else fits that description? From the brethren, from the Ishmaelites, like unto Moses. And of course both of them preach that there is only One God, you should only worship the one God, God is not like anything in His creation & you should submit yourselves to God's divinely revealed law. This is what Moses taught, this is what Muhammad taught & as we believe of course this is what Jesus taught. Here are some amazing statements to show you indeed that Muhammad is the one foretold in the Bible.
:jazak:
The above text is from a lecture of Abdul Rahim Green.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzPbS0RCvBE
