{"id":2641,"date":"2019-10-23T20:29:15","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T18:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/?p=2641"},"modified":"2019-10-23T20:29:15","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T18:29:15","slug":"bible-prophecies-of-muhammad-part-2-of-4-old-testament-prophecies-of-muhammad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/?p=2641","title":{"rendered":"BIBLE PROPHECIES OF MUHAMMAD (PART 2 OF 4): OLD TESTAMENT PROPHECIES OF MUHAMMAD"},"content":{"rendered":"

By\u00a0<\/strong>Imam Mufti<\/p>\n

Deuteronomy 18:18 \u00a0“I (God) will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee (Moses), and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.”<\/p>\n

Many Christians believe this prophecy foretold by Moses to be in regards to Jesus.\u00a0 Indeed Jesus was foretold in the Old Testament, but as will be clear, this prophecy does not befit him, but rather is more deserving of Muhammad, may the mercy and blessings of God be upon him.\u00a0 Moses foretold the following:<\/p>\n

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1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Prophet Will Be Like Moses<\/h3>\n

.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Areas of Comparison<\/td>\nMoses<\/td>\nJesus<\/td>\nMuhammad<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Birth<\/td>\nnormal birth<\/td>\nmiraculous, virgin birth<\/td>\nnormal birth<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mission<\/td>\nprophet only<\/td>\nsaid to be Son of God<\/td>\nprophet only<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Parents<\/td>\nfather & mother<\/td>\nmother only<\/td>\nfather & mother<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Family Life<\/td>\nmarried with children<\/td>\nnever married<\/td>\nmarried with children<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Acceptance by own people<\/td>\nJews accepted him<\/td>\nJews rejected him[1]<\/td>\nArabs accepted him<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Political Authority<\/td>\nMoses had it (Num 15:36)<\/td>\nJesus refused it[2]<\/td>\nMuhammad had it<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Victory Over Opponents<\/td>\nPharaoh drowned<\/td>\nsaid to be crucified<\/td>\nMeccans defeated<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Death<\/td>\nnatural death<\/td>\nclaimed to be crucified<\/td>\nnatural death<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Burial<\/td>\nburied in grave<\/td>\nempty tomb<\/td>\nburied in grave<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Divinity<\/td>\nnot divine<\/td>\ndivine to Christians<\/td>\nnot divine<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Began Mission at age<\/td>\n40<\/td>\n30<\/td>\n40<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Resurrection on Earth<\/td>\nnot resurrected<\/td>\nresurrection claimed<\/td>\nnot resurrected<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Awaited Prophet will be from the\u00a0Brethren\u00a0of the Jews<\/h3>\n

The verse in discussion is explicit in saying that the prophet will come amongst the Brethren of the Jews. \u00a0Abraham had two sons: Ishmael and Isaac.\u00a0 The Jews are the descendants of Isaac\u2019s son, Jacob.\u00a0 The Arabs are the children of Ishmael.\u00a0 Thus, the Arabs are the brethren of the Jewish nation.[3]\u00a0The Bible affirms:<\/p>\n

\u2018And he (Ishmael) shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.\u2019 (Genesis 16:12)<\/p>\n

\u2018And he (Ishmael) died in the presence of all his brethren.\u2019 (Genesis 25:18)<\/p>\n

The children of Isaac are the brethren of the Ishmaelites. \u00a0Likewise, Muhammad is from among the brethren of the Israelites, because he was a descendant of Ishmael the son of Abraham.<\/p>\n

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3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 God Will Put His Words in the Mouth of the Awaited Prophet<\/h3>\n

The Quran says of Muhammad:<\/p>\n

“Neither does he speak out of his own desire: that [which he conveys to you] is but [a divine] inspiration with which he is being inspired.” (Quran 53:3-4)<\/p>\n

This is quite similar to the verse in Deuteronomy 18:18:<\/p>\n

“I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee,\u00a0and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him” (Deuteronomy 18:18)<\/p>\n

The Prophet Muhammad came with a message to the whole world, and from them, the Jews. \u00a0All, including the Jews, must accept his prophethood, and this is supported by the following words:<\/p>\n

“The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken.” (Deuteronomy 18:15)<\/p>\n

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4.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A Warning to Rejecters<\/h3>\n

The prophecy continues:<\/p>\n

Deuteronomy 18:19\u00a0 “And it shall come to pass, [that] whosoever will not hearken unto my\u00a0words\u00a0which he shall speak in my name, I will require [it] of him.” (in some translations: “I will be the Revenger”).<\/p>\n

Interestingly, Muslims begin every chapter of the Quran in the name of God by saying:<\/p>\n

Bismillah ir-Rahman ir-Raheem<\/p>\n

“\u2018In the Name of God, the Most-Merciful, the Dispenser of Grace.”<\/p>\n

The following is the account of some scholars who believed this prophecy to fit Muhammad.<\/p>\n

The First Witness<\/p>\n

Abdul-Ahad Dawud, the former Rev.\u00a0 David Benjamin Keldani, BD, a Roman Catholic priest of the Uniate-Chaldean sect (read his biography\u00a0here).\u00a0 After accepting Islam, he wrote the book, \u2018Muhammad in the Bible.\u2019 \u00a0He writes about this prophecy:<\/p>\n

“If these words do not apply to Muhammad, they still remain unfulfilled.\u00a0 Jesus himself never claimed to be the prophet alluded to.\u00a0 Even his disciples were of the same opinion: they looked to the second coming of Jesus for the fulfillment of the prophecy (Acts 3: 17-24). \u00a0So 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 fulfill the words.\u00a0 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.”[4]<\/p>\n

The Second Witness<\/p>\n

Muhammad Asad was born Leopold Weiss in July 1900 in the city of Lvov (German Lemberg), now in Poland, then part of the Austrian Empire.\u00a0 He was the descendant of a long line of rabbis, a line broken by his father, who became a barrister.\u00a0 Asad himself received a thorough religious education that would qualify him to keep alive the family\u2019s rabbinical tradition.\u00a0 He had become proficient in Hebrew at an early age and was also familiar with Aramaic.\u00a0 He had studied the Old Testament in the original as well as the text and commentaries of the Talmud, the Mishna and Gemara, and he had delved into the intricacies of Biblical exegesis, the Targum.[5]<\/p>\n

Commenting on the verse of the Quran:<\/p>\n

“and do not overlay the truth with falsehood, and do not knowingly suppress the truth” (Quran 2:42)<\/p>\n

Muhammad Asad writes:<\/p>\n

“By \u2018overlaying the truth with falsehood\u2019\u00a0is meant the corrupting of the biblical text, of which the Quran frequently accuses the Jews (and which has since been established by objective textual criticism), while the \u2018suppression of the truth\u2019\u00a0refers to their disregard or deliberately false interpretation of the words of Moses in the biblical passage, \u2018The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken\u2019 (Deuteronomy 18:15), and the words attributed to God himself, \u2018I will raise them up a prophet from among thy brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth\u2019 (Deuteronomy 18:18).\u00a0 The \u2018brethren\u2019 of the children of Israel are obviously the Arabs, and particularly the musta\u2019ribah (\u2018Arabianized\u2019) group among them, which traces its descent to Ishmael and Abraham: and since it is this group that the Arabian Prophet\u2019s own tribe, the Quraish, belonged, the above biblical passages must be taken as referring to his advent.”[6]<\/p>\n

FOOTNOTES:<\/p>\n

[1]”He (Jesus) came unto his own, but his own received him not” (John 1:11)<\/p>\n

[2]John 18:36.<\/p>\n

[3]\u2018Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources\u2019 by Martin Lings, p. 1-7.<\/p>\n

[4]Ibid, p. 156<\/p>\n

[5]\u2018Berlin to Makkah: Muhammad Asad\u2019s Journey into Islam\u2019 by Ismail Ibrahim Nawwab in the January\/February 2002 issue of Saudi Aramco Magazine.<\/p>\n

[6]Muhammad Asad, \u2018The Message of The Quran\u2019 (Gibraltar: Dar al-Andalus, 1984), p. 10-11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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