Muhammad (peace be upon him) in the bible

 

Did Muhammad (peace be upon him) was mentioned in the bible?.

Praise be to Allaah. 

Muhammad(Peace Be Upon Him)in the bible

Bible
prophecies about the  advent of muhammad 

Abraham is widely regarded  as the Patriarch
of monotheism and the common father of the Jews, Christians and Muslims.
Through his second son, Isaac, came all Israelite prophet including
such towering figures as Jacob, Joseph, Moses, David, Solomon and Jesus.
May peace and blessing be upon them all. The advent of these great prophets
was in partial fulfillment of God’s promises to bless the nations of
earth through the descendents of Abraham (Genesis 12:2-3). Such
fulfillment is wholeheartedly accepted by Muslims whose faith considers
the belief in and respect of all prophets an article of faith. 

BLESSING OF ISHMAEL AND ISAAC 

Was
the first born son of Abraham (Ishmael) and his descendants icluded
in God’s covenant and promise? A few verses from the Bible may help
shed some light on this question : 

Genesis 12:2-3 speaks
of God’s promise to Abraham and his descendants before any child
was born to him.

Genesis 17:4 reiterates God’s promise
after the birth of Ishmael and before the birth of Isaac.

In Genesis, ch.21. Isaac is specifically
blessed but Ishmael was also specifically blessed and promised by
God to become “ a great nation” especially in Genesis 21:13,
18.

According to Deuteronomy 21:15-17 the
traditional rights and privileges of the first born son are not
to be affected by the social status of his mother (being a ‘free’
woman such as Sarah, Isaac’s mother, or a “Bondwoman” such as Hagar,
Ishmael’s mother). This is only consistent with the moral and humanitarian
principles of all revealed faiths.

The full legitimacy of Ismael as Abraham’s son
and “seed” and the full legitimacy of his mother, Hagar, as Abraham’s
wife are clearly stated in Genesis 21:13 and 16:3.

 After
Jesus, the last Israelite messenger and prophet, it was time that God’s
promise to bless Ismael and his descendants be fulfilled. Less than
600 years after Jesus, came the last messenger of God, Muhammad
(Peace be Upon Him) , from the progency of Abraham through Ishmael.
God’s blessing of both of the main branches of Abraham’s family tree
was now fulfilled. But are there additional corroborating evidence that
the Bible did in fact foretell the advent of Prophet Muhammad (Peace
be Upon Him)?

 MUHAMMAD
(Peace be Upon Him):

The Prophet Like Unto Moses

 Long
time after Abraham, God’s promise to send the long-awaited Messenger
was repeated this time in Moses’ word.

 In
Deuteronomy 18:18, Moses spoke of the prophet to be sent by God
who is :

From among the Israelite’s “brethren” a reference
to their Ishmaelite cousins as Ishmael was the other son of Abraham
who was explicitly promised to become a “great nation”.

A prophet like unto Moses. There were hardly
any two prophets who were so much alike as Moses and Muhammad.
Both were given comprehensive law code of life, both encountered
their enemies and were victors in miraculous ways, both were accepted
as prophets/statesmen and both migrated following conspiracies to
assassinate them. Analogies between Moses and Jesus overlooks not
only the above similarities but other crucial ones as well (e.g.
the natural birth, family life and death of Moses and Muhammad
but no of Jesus, who was regarded by His followers as the Son
of God and not exclusively a messenger of God, as Moses and Muhammad
were and as Muslim belief Jesus was).

 THE
AWAITED PROPHET WAS TO COME FROM ARABIA

 Deuteronomy
33:1-2 combines references to Moses, Jesus and Muhammad.
It speaks of God (i.e. God’s revelation) coming from Sinai, rising from
Seir (probably the village of Sa’ir near Jerusalem) and shining forth
from Paran.

According
to Genesis 21:21, the wilder-ness of Paran was the place where
Ishmael settled (i.e. Arabia, specifically Mecca). 

Indeed
the King James version of the Bible mentions the pilgrims passing through
the valley of Ba’ca (another name of Mecca) in Psalms 84:4-6. 

Isaiah
42:1-13 speaks of the beloved of God. His elect and messenger who
will bring down a law to be awaited in the isles and who “shall not
fail nor be discouraged till he have set judgement on earth.” Verse
11, connects that awaited one with the descendants of Ke’dar. Who
is Ke’dar? According to Genesis 25:13, Ke’dar was the second
son of Ishmael, the ancestor of the prophet Muhammad. 

MUHAMMAD’S MIGRATION FROM MECCA TO MEDINA
: PROPHECIED IN THE BIBLE? 

Habakkuk
3:3 speaks of God (God’s help) coming from Te’man. (an Oasis North
of Medina according to J. Hasting’s Dictionary of the Bible), and the
holy one (coming) from Paran. That holy one who under persecution migrated
from Paran (Mecca) to be received enthusiastically in Medina  was
none but prophet Muhammad. 

Indeed
the incident of the migration of the prophet and his persecuted followers
is vividly described in Isaiah 21:13-17. that section forerold
as well about the battel of Badr in which the few ill-armed faithfull
miraculously defeated the “mighty” men of Ke’dar, who sought to destroy
Islam and intimidate their own folks who turned to Islam. 

THE QUR’AN (KORAN) FORETOLD IN THE BIBLE? 

For
twenty-three years, God’s word (the Qur’an) were truely put into Muhammad’s
mouth. He was not the “author” of the Qur’an. The Qur’an was dictated
to him by Angel Gabriel who asked Muhammad to simply repeat the words
of the Qur’an as he heard them. These words were then committed to memory
and to writing by those who hear them during Muhammad’s life
time and under his supervision. 

Was
it a coincidence that the prophet “like unto Moses” from the “brethren”
of the Israelites (i.e. from the Ishmaelites) was also described as
one in whose mouth God will put his words and that he will speak in
the name of God., (Duteronomy 18:18-20). Was it also a coincidence
the “Paraclete” thet Jesus foretold to come after Him was described
as one who “shall not speak of himself, but whatsoever he shall hear,
that shall he speak.. “(John 16:13). 

Was
it another coincidence that Isaiah ties between the messenger
connected with Ke’dar and a new song (a scripture in a new language)
to be sang unto the Lord (Isaiah 42:10-11). More explicitly,
prophesies Isaiah “ for with stammering lips, and another tongue,
will he speak to this people” (Isaiah 28:11). This latter verse
correctly describes the “stammering lips” of Prophet Muhammad reflecting
the state of tension and concentration he went through at the time of
revelation. Another related point is that the Qur’an was revealed in
piece-meals over a span of twenty-three years. It is interisting to
compare this with Isaiah 28:10 which speaks of the same thing. 

THAT PROPHET – PARACLETE – MUHAMMAD 

Up
to the time of Jesus, the Israelites were still awaiting for that prophet
like unto Moses prophecied in Deuteronomy 18:18. when John the
Baptist came, they asked him if he was Christ and he said “No”. they
asked him if he was Elias and he said “No”. then, in apparent reference
to Deuteronomy 18:18, they asked him “Art thou that Prophet”
and he answered, “No”. (John 1:19-21). 

In
the Gospel according to John (Chapters 14, 15, 16) Jesus spoke
of the “ Paraclete” or comporter who will come after him, who will be
sent by Father as another Paraclete, who will teach new things
which the contemporaries of Jesus could not bear. While the Paraclete
is described as the spirit of truth (whose meaning resemble Muhammad’s
famous title Al-Amin, the trustworthy), he is identified in one verse
as the Holy Ghost (John 14:26). Such a designation is however
incosistent with the profile of that Paraclete. In the words of the
Dictionary of the Bible, (Ed. J. Mackenzie) “ These items, it
must be admitted do not give an entirely coherent picture.” 

Indeed history tells us that many early
Christians understood the Paraclete to be a man and not a spirit. This
might explain the followings who responded to some who claimed, without
meeting the criteria stipulated by Jesus, to be the awaited “Paraclete”. 

It
was Prophet Muhammad (Peace be Upon Him) who was the Paraclete,
Comforter, helper, admonisher sent by God after Jesus. He testified
of Jesus, taught new things which could not be borne at Jesus’ time,
he spoke what he heard (revelation), he dwells with the believers (through
his well-preserved teachings). Such teachings will remain forever because
he was the last messenger of God, the only Universal Messenger to
unite the whole of humanity under God and on the path of PRESERVED truth.
He told of many things to come which “came to pass” in the minutest
detail meeting, the criterion given by Moses to distinguish between
the true prophet and the false prophets (Deuteronomy 18:22).
He did reprove the world of sin, of righteousness and of judgement (John
16:8-11). 

WAS THE SHIFT OF RELIGIUS LEADERSHIP PROPHECIED? 

Following
the rejection of the last Israelite prophet, Jesus, it was about time
that God’s promise to make Ishmael a great nation be fulfilled (Genesis
21:13, 18). 

In Matthew
21:19-21, Jesus spoke of the fruitless fig tree (A Biblical symbol
of prophetic heritage) to be cleared after being given a last chance
of three years (the duration of Jesus’ ministry) to give fruit. In a
later verse in the same chapter, Jesus said : “Therefore, say I unto
you, the Kingdom of God shall be taken away from you, and given to nation
bringing forth the fruit thereof” (Matthew 21:43). That nation
of Ishmael’s descendants (the rejected stone in Matthew 21 :42)
which was victorious against all super-powers of its time as prophecied
by Jesus : “ And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken,
but  on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder”
(Matthew 21:44). 

OUT OF CONTEXT COINCIDENCE? 

Is it possible that the numerous prophecies
cited here are all individually and combined out of contect misinterpretations?
is the opposite true, that such infrequently studied verses fit together
consistently and clearly point to the advent of the man who changed
the course of human history, Prophet Muhammad (Peace be Upon
Him). Is it reasonable to conclude that all these prophecies, appearing
in different books of the Bible and spoken by various prophets at different
times were all coinsidence? If this is so here is another strange “coincidence”! 

One
of the signs of the prophet to come from Paran (Mecca) is that he will
come with “ten thousands of saints” (Deuteronomy 33:2 KJV). That
was the number of faithful who accompanied Prophet Muhammad to
Paran (Mecca) in his victorious, bloodless return to his birthplace,
to destroy the remaining symbols of idolatry in the Ka’bah. 

Says God as quated by Moses : 

         
And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words
which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him. (Deuteronomy
18:19). 

Dear Readers:

May the light of truth shine in your heart and mind.
May it lead you to peace and certitude in this life and eternal bliss
in hereafter.

AMEEN .