What the Bible says about Prophet Muhammad (pbuh)
According to the Bible, God said to Moses, on whom be peace:
“I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers; I will put my words in his mouth, and he will tell them everything I command him.” (The Holy Bible, New International Version, Deuteronomy chapter 18, verse 18).
The prophet described in the above verse must have the following three characteristics:
1. He will be like Moses.
2. He will come from the brothers of the Israelites, i.e. the Ishmaelites.
3. God will put His words in the mouth of that prophet and he will declare what God commanded him.
Let us see which prophet God was speaking of.
Let’s take a look at a few passages in the Bible wherein the coming of the Prophet Muhammad is possibly prophesied.
According to the Bible, God said to Moses, on whom be peace:
1. The prophet like Moses
Some people feel that this prophecy refers to the prophet Jesus, on whom be peace. But, although Jesus* was truly a prophet of God, he is not the prophet spoken of here. He was born miraculously, and, finally, God raised him up miraculously. On the other hand, Muhammad* is more like Moses*; both were born in a natural way and both died natural deaths.
2. From among the Ishmaelites
Abraham* had two sons, Ishmael* and Isaac* (Genesis, chapter 21). Ishmael* became the grandfather of the Arab nation, and Isaac became the grandfather of the Jewish nation. The prophet spoken of was to come not from among the Jews themselves, but from among their brothers, the Ishmaelites. Muhammad*, a descendant of Ishmael, is indeed that prophet.
3. God will put His words in his mouth
“Neither the content of the revelation, nor its form, were of Mohammed’s devising. Both were given by the angel, and Mohammed’s task was only to repeat what he heard.”(World Religions from Ancient History to the Present, by Geoffrey Parrinder, p. 472)
God sent the angel Gabriel* to teach Muhammad* the exact words that he should repeat to the people. The words are therefore not his own; they did not come from his own thoughts, but were put into his mouth by the angel. These are written down in the Qur’an, word for word exactly as they came from God. [Read more: Angels in Islam]
Now that we know that prophet we must listen to him, for, according to the Bible, God says: “I will punish anyone who refuses to obey him” (Good News Bible, Deut. 18:19).
تنبأ عيسي بالباركليت ( محمد) في الإنجيل
In the Bible we can find the following four passages wherein Jesus (peace be upon him) predicts a great event:
_John 14:16 "And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever"
_John 15:26 "But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, [even] the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me"
_John 14:26 "But the Comforter, [which is] the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you."
_John 16:7-14 "Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you. And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: Of sin, because they believe not on me; Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more;Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged. I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: forhe shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, [that] shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come. He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew [it] unto you."
Jesus in the Greek Bible used the Greek word "Periklytos" which means the admirable or glorified one.He called that predicted human prophet "Periklytos".This word corresponds exactly to the Arabic word "Muhammad" which also means the "admired one" or "glorified one."In other words, "Periklytos" is "Muhammad" in Greek.
In these four verses, the word "comforter" is translated from the word "Paraclete" ("Ho Parakletos" in Greek). Parakletos in Greek is interpreted as "an advocate", one who pleads the cause of another, one who councils or advises another from deep concern for the other's welfare (Beacon Bible commentary volume VII, p.168). In these verses we are told that once Jesus (peace be upon him) departs, a Paraclete will come. He will glorify Jesus (peace be upon him), and he will guide mankind into all truth. This "Paraclete" is identified in John 14:26 as the Holy Ghost.
للرد علي أن المعزي هو النبي محمد ﷺ وليس الروح القدس
It is well known that the Holy Spirit existed before and during the life of Christ.
John 16:7
7 But very truly I tell you, it is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you.
So who is the comforter?
يصف عيسي من أين يخرج المعزي( محمد ﷺ )
Deuteronomy - Chapter 32
19 And when the Lord saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.
20 And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith.
21 They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
Quran
62:2
It is He Who has sent amongst the Unlettered a messenger from among themselves, to rehearse to them His Signs, to sanctify them, and to instruct them in Scripture and Wisdom,- although they had been, before, in manifest error;
Where is this foolish (unlettered) nation ?
Isa 21:13 The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye travelling companies of Dedanim
THis nation is arabs who was unlettered
Arabs descendants of Ishmail son of Abrahim
Let us see what Allah promised Hager the wife of Abrahim and the mother of Ishmail
Genesis 21:15New International Version (NIV)
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.” (((Where is this nation now and who ?!!!! The arabs ,the muslims ?!!!))
This nation is arab
IN which place?
Tema is the city of prophet muhammad pbuh. In southern of Saudiya Arabia.
Isa 21:11 The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night? Isa 21:12 The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will enquire, enquire ye: return, come. Isa 21:13 The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye travelling companies of Dedanim. Isaiah 21:14 The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him that was thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that fled. Isa 21:15 For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war. Isa 21:16 For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Within a year, according to the years of an hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall fail: Isa 21:17 And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the LORD God of Israel hath spoken it.
فاران في مكة وليس سيناء وهو المكان الذي عاش فيه إسماعيل (عليه السلام) كما هو مذكور في سفر التكوين:
Paran Telling about Mecca
The Old Testament tells an interesting issue about a place called Paran. It says in Deuteronomy:
And this is the blessing, wherewith Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death. 2 And he said, Jehovah came from Sinai, And rose from Seir unto them; He shined forth from mount Paran, And he came from the ten thousands of holy ones: At his right hand was a fiery law for them. (Deuteronomy 33:1-2)
And in the Septuagaint:
33:2 And he said, The Lord is come from Sina, and has appeared from Seir to us, and has hasted out of the mount of Pharan, with the ten thousands of Cades; on his right hand [were] his angels with him.
This prophecy here tells about the three prophets; Moses (Peace be upon him) “The LORD came from Sinai”, then Jesus (Peace be upon him) “and rose up from Seir unto them”, then finally Muhammad ﷺ in the bolded words.
Paran is Mecca .
Ishmael Lived in Paran
Paran is Mecca not Sinai and it is where Ishmael (Peace be upon him) lived in as mentioned in Genesis:
Genesis 21:20 And God was with the lad, and he grew. And he dwelt in the wilderness, and became, as he grew up, an archer. Gen 21:21 And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran. And his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.
A Christian commentator wrote about that saying:
God was with the lad, etc. — Paran (that is, Arabia), where his posterity has ever dwelt (compare Gen_16:12; also Isa_48:19; 1Pe_1:25). (Jamisson, Fausset and Brown commentary)
Evidence from Jewish and Christian Sources that Paran is Mecca:
According to many Christian and Jewish sources, Paran was interpreted to be in Arabia. We can see first what Strong’s Bible dictionary says about Paran:
H6290 pâ’rân
From H6286; ornamental; Paran, a desert of Arabia: – Paran. (Source here)
This was emphasized more in the Bible when it says that the descendants of Ishmael (Peace be upon him) were in Arabia not in Sinai:
Genesis 25:18 And they dwelt from Havilah unto Shur that is before Egypt, as thou goest toward Assyria. He abode over against all his brethren.
John Gill wrote about it saying:
Gen 25:18 – And they dwelt from Havilah unto Shur,…. That is, the posterity of Ishmael, whose country reached from one place to the other; not from India to Chaluza, as the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem; but the extent is that vast desert of Arabia, which eastward was called the wilderness of Havilah, and westward the wilderness of Shur; so that they inhabited it from east to west: (John Gill’s commentary)
And Rabbi Rachi tells in his commentary that Paran in Deuteronomy 33 refers to the Ishmaelites:
“from Mount Paran [Why did God then come from Paran?] Because He went there and offered the children of Ishmael [who dwelled in Paran] to accept the Torah, but they [also] did not want [to accept it].” (Source here)
It may be said that Paran was mentioned somewhere else in other parts, and doesn’t seem from these verses were pointing to Arabia. Actually that doesn’t mean that there is one Paran, for example, there were 2 places called Seir, one is related to the mount of Idumea and the other is related to Palestine as mentioned in the previous prophecy of Isaiah 42.
Ten thousands of Saints with a Fiery Law
The verse says that God shined forth from Mount Paran with ten thousands of saints having a fiery law on their right hand. This was exactly what happened during the conquest of Mecca when Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) came as a conqueror to Mecca after 13 years of persecution in Mecca and 6 years of fighting Muslims in Medina. He finally came to Mecca and purified the Kaaba the house of God from the idols that were built around it and shining Mecca again with the light of Islam. Before Muslims entered Mecca, Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) wanted to show the people of Mecca the power of the Muslim army, so he ordered all the army to kindle fire at night. There were 10,000 men each one holding a flame fulfilling
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the Biblical prophecy: “And he came from the ten thousands of holy ones: At his right hand was a fiery law for them.”
Habakkuk, Teman and Paran
Also what proves that Paran is not Sinai in that case is that nothing happened there, even the great nation God promised Ishmael with (Genesis 21:21) was certainly in Arabia not Sinai, where in Mecca, the revelation came to Muhammad ﷺ and since then Arabs became a great nation through Islam, the religion of God, that’s why the prophecy was mentioned again in Habakkuk:
Habakkuk 3:3 God came from Teman, And the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, And the earth was full of his praise. 4 And his brightness was as the light; He had rays coming forth from his hand; And there was the hiding of his power. 5 Before him went the pestilence, And fiery bolts went forth at his feet.
According to Strong’s Bible Dictionary, Teman is the South:
H8486 tay-mawn’, tay-mawn’
Denominative from H3225; the south (as being on the right hand of a person facing the east): – south (side, -ward, wind). (Source here)
And that’s what Darby’s translation gives:
(DRB) God will come from the south, and the holy one from mount Pharan: His glory covered the heavens, and the earth is full of his praise.
Arabia is well-known to be in the South of Palestine. This answers the objection that the context of Deuteronomy 33 is not talking about a prophecy, as verse 2 was just an introduction, and then it talked about the blessing of Israel throughout the chapter, so emphasizing this point again in Habakkuk proves that it was a prophecy.
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This place has a distinctive feature that is the only one in the world
No unclean shall enter Baca 👉 his religion polytheism will not enter it
(king James Version)(Isaiah)(Is-35-8)(And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.)
Only muslims enter it monothestic religion
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We have come to the attribute of this place where there is a sacred path to enter into uncleanness
No entry for non-Muslims as in picture below
(king James Version)(Isaiah)(Is-56-7)(Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people.)
of prayer for all people.)
4 millions sscrifices in one day
A slaughterhouse complex and slaughterhouses for four million pilgrims annually
(king James Version)(Isaiah)(Is-56-7)(Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people.)
ARRABAT OR ARVAT MOUNTAIN
Pure language will adress all who stand in prayer 👉 ?
(king James Version)(Zephaniah)(Zep-3-9)(For then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the LORD, to serve him with one consent.)
One language to pray in all the world and stand in prayer shoulder by shoulder