So far Christian Clergy has been indifferent to know whether
Muhammad is the promised prophet prophesied in Holy Bible. Firstly
because Original text of the scripture was
in Arami and Greek and Latin translation does not measure up to the
Text. And secondly
because they did not want to accept a new prophet who would have ended
the reign of Jesus Christ. Now common men are unable to understand as
to why God did not send the promised prophet even 2000 years of Jesus.
Any person do not deny God's Commandments unless a greater loss occurs
to him. Now the whole Christian world has sunk into refusal and
outright rejection of the Holy scriptures. The increasing number of
athiests in the society can only be countered by reviving faith in the
unseen God, through acceptance of One real True God, Who always sent a
prominent messenger every 600 years. Muhammd was born in 572 AD and
made a prophet in 610.The proof of his prophethood can be deduced from
Bible itself. Read very carefully, before you deny once more, the
reality of theprophethood of Muhammad.
So far it is undisputed that the first coming of Jesus was not
the advent of the "Prophet like unto thee", and his second advent can
hardly fulfil the words.Jesus as is believed by his Church, will
appear as a Judge and not as a law giver;but the promised one has to
come with a fiery law in "his right hand".
The words in the Book of Deutronomy further help to understand
who the promised one is. It speaks of the ****ning forth of God from
Paran, the Mecca mountain.The exact words of the text (Ch xxxiii,Verse
2) run as follows:
"The Lord came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them;
he ****ned forth from mount Paran and he came with ten
thousands of saints; from his right hand went a fiery law
for them.
In these words the Lord has been compared with the sun. He
comes from Sinai, he
rises from Seir, but he ****nes in his full glory from Paran, where he
had to appear with
ten thousands of saints with a fiery law in his right hand.None of the
Israelites, including
Jesus, had anything to do with Paran. Hagar with her son Ishmael,
wandered in the wilderness
of beersheba, who aftewards dewlt in the wilderness of Paran(Genesis
xxi:21) He married an
Egyptian woman and through his first born, Kedar gave descent to the
Arabs who from that
time till now are the dwellers of the wilderness of paran. And if
Muhammad admittedly on
all hands traces his descent to Ishmael through Kedar and he appeared
as a prophet in the
wilderness of Paran and re-entered Mecca with ten thousand saints and
gave a fiery law to
his people, is not prophecy above-mentioned fulfilled to its very
letter? The words of prophecy
in Habakkuk are especially noteworthy. His (the Holy One from Paran)
glory covered the
heavens and the earth was full of his praise. The word "praise" is
very name Muhammad literally
means "the praised one"
In connection with it there are two other prophecies worthy
of note where references
have been made to Kedar. The one runs thus in chapter Ix of Isiah :
"Arise, ****ne for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord
risen upon three......The
multitude of camels shall cover thee, dromedaries of Midian
and Epha; all they from
Sheba shall come....All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered
together unto thee, the rams
of Neobaioth shall minister unto thee: they shall come up
with acceptance on mine alter
and I will glorify house of my glory"(1-7)
The other prophecy is again in Isiah xxi: "The burden upon
Arabia . In the forest in Arabia
shall ye lodge. O ye travelling companies of Dedanim. The inhabitants
of the land of Tema
brought water to him that was thristry, they prevented with their
bread him that fled. For
they fled from swords.....and from the bent bow, and from the
grievousness of war. For thus
hath the Lord said unto me, within a year according to years of an
hireling and all the
glory of Kedar shall fail:And the residue of the number of archers,
the mighty men of the children
of Kedar, shall be diminished" (13-17). Read these prophecies in Isiah
in the light of one
in Deuterronomy which speaks of the ****ning forth of God fom
Paran.IfIshmael inhabited the
wilderness of Paran, where he gave birth to Kedar, who is the ancestor
of the Arabs;and if
the sons of Kedar had to receive revelation from God; if the flocks of
Kedar had to receive
revelation from God; if the flocks of Kedar, who had to receive
revelation from God; if the
flocks of Kedar had to come up with acceptance to a Divine altar to
glorify "the house of
my glory" where the darkness had to cover the earth for some centuries
and then that very land
had to receive light from God; and if all the glory of Kedar had to
fail and the number of
archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar had to diminish
within a year after the one
fled from the swords and from the bent bows -- the Holy one from Paran
(Habkkuk:iii:3) is no
one else than Muhammad. Muhammad is the only prophet through whom
Arabs received revelation at the time when the darkness had covered
the earth.
Before rejecting again, think once more. The second coming of
Jesus may not be too far and
he will not like wilful negligence.
Javed Kaleem
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