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 secondlybecause
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 shining 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 shined 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 shines 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, shine 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 shining 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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