Old and New Testament Prophecies of Muhammad ( Islam) Bible vs Quran with regards to Jesus (pbuh)

Old and New Testament Prophecies of Muhammad

God promises the lineage of Abraham to be named through both Ishmael and Isaac

through Isaac shall your descendants be named. And I will make a nation of the son of the slave woman [Ishmael] also, because he is your offspring." (Genesis 21:13-14)

The descendants of Ishmael to be a great nation

Abraham had left Hagar and their newborn, Ishmael in Makkah (or Paran)...when the water in the skin was gone, she cast the child under one of the bushes. Then she went, and sat down over against him a good way off, about the distance of a bow shot; for she said, "Let me not look upon the death of the child." And as she sat over against him, the child lifted up his voice and wept. And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven, and said to her, "What troubles you, Hagar? Fear not;for God has heard the voice of the lad where he is. Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him fast with your hand; for I will makehim a great nation." (Genesis 21:16-19)

Ishmael settles in Makkah (referred to as Paran)

And God was with the lad [Ishmael], and he grew up; he lived in the wilderness, and became an expert with the bow.He lived in the wilderness of Paran; (Genesis 21:21)

Reference to Moses, Jesus and Muhammad (in order)

This is the blessing with which Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death. He said, "The LORD came fromSinai, and dawned fromSe'irupon us; he shone forth from MountParan, he came from the ten thousands of holy ones.. (Deuteronomy 33:1-3)

Sinai- is reference to Moses. It is an obvious reference to Mount Sinai where Moses received revelation.Seir is reference to Jesus. It is usually associated with the chain of mountains west and south of the Dead Sea extending through Jerusalem and Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus.Paran is reference to the location where Ishmael settled. The Prophet Muhammad was born in Paran (Makkah) and having migrated from Makkah, here turned to conquer the city with 10,000 of his companions.

Prophet just like Moses

Deuteronomy 18:18  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.

Many Christians believe this prophecy foretold by Moses to be in regards to Jesus.  Indeed Jesus was foretold in the Old Testament, but as will be clear, this prophecy does not fit him, but rather is more deserving of Muhammad, may the blessing and mercy of God be upon him.  Moses foretold the following:

1. The Prophet Will Be Like Moses

Areas of Comparison	Moses	Jesus	Muhammad
Birth	normal birth	miraculous, virgin birth	normal birth
Mission	prophet only	said to be Son of God	prophet only
Parents	father & mother	mother only	father & mother
Family Life	married with children	never married	married with children
Acceptance by own people	Jews accepted him	Jews rejected him	Arabs accepted him
Political Authority	Moses had it (Num 15:36)	Jesus refused it	Muhammad had it
Victory Over Opponents	Pharaoh drowned	said to be crucified	Makkans defeated
Death	natural death	claimed to be crucified	natural death
Burial	buried in grave	empty tomb	buried in grave
Divinity	not divine	divine to Christians	not divine
Began Mission at age	40	30	40
Resurrection on Earth	not resurrected	resurrection claimed	not resurrected

2. The Awaited Prophet will be from theBrethrenof the Jews

The verse in discussion is explicit in saying that the prophet will come amongst the Brethren of the Jews. Abraham had two sons: Ishmael and Isaac.  The Jews are the descendants of Isaacs son, Jacob. The Arabs are the children of Ishmael. Thus, the Arabs are the brethren of the Jewish nation. The Bible affirms:

And he (Ishmael) shall dwell in the presence of all  his brethren.(Genesis 16:12)

And he (Ishmael) died in the presence of all his brethren.(Genesis 25:18)

The children of Isaac are the brethren of the Ishmaelites.  Likewise, Muhammad is from among the brethren of the Israelites, because he was a descendant of Ishmael the son of Abraham.

3. God will Put His Words in the Mouth of theAwaited Prophet

The Qurān says of Prophet Muhammad:

Nor does he speak from [his own] inclination.It is not but a revelation revealed.Qurān 53:3-4

This is quite similar to the verse in Geneses 18:15:

I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee,and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him(Geneses18:18)

The Prophet Muhammad came with a message to the whole world, and from them, the Jews.  All, including the Jews, must accept his prophethood, and this is supported by the following words:

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)

4. A Warning to Rejecters

The prophecy continues:

Deuteronomy 18:19  And it shall come to pass,[that] whosoever will not hearken unto mywordswhich he shall speak in my name, I will require [it] of him. (in some translations: I will be the Revenger).

Interestingly, Muslims begin every chapter of the Qurān in the name of God by saying:

Bismillah ir-Rahmanir-Raheem -In the Name of God, the Most Gracious Most Merciful.

Abdul-Ahad Dawud, was the former Rev. David Benjamin Keldani, BD, a Roman Catholic priest of the Uniate-Chaldean sect.  After accepting Islām, he wrote the book, Muhammadin the Bible.  He writes about this prophecy:

If these words do not apply to Muhammad, they still remain unfulfilled.  Jesus himself never claimed to be the prophet alluded to.  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).  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 fulfill 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.

New Testament Prophecy

John 14:16  And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever.

In this verse, Jesus promises that another Comforter will appear, and thus, we must discuss some issues concerning this Comforter.

The Greek word paravklhto,ho parakletos, has been translated as Comforter.Parakletosmore precisely means one who pleads anothers cause, an intercessor.Theho parakletosis a person in the Greek language, not an in corporealentity.  In the Greek language, every noun possesses gender; that is, it is masculine, feminine or neutral.  In the Gospel of John, Chapters 14, 15and 16 theho parakletosis actually a person.  All pronouns in Greek must agree in gender with the word to which they refer and the pronounhe is used when referring to theparakletos.  The New Testament uses the wordpneuma, which means breath or spirit, the Greekequivalent ofruah, the Hebrew word for spirit used in the Old Testament.Pneumais a grammatically neutral word and is always represented by the pronoun it.

All present day Bibles are compiled from ancient manuscripts, the oldest dating back to the fourth century C.E.  No two ancient manuscripts are identical.All Bibles today are produced by combining manuscripts with no single definitive reference.  The Bible translators attempt to choose the correct version.  In other words, since they do not know which ancient manuscript is the correct one, they decide for us which version for a given verse to accept.  Take John 14:26 as an example.  John 14:26 is the only verse of the Bible which associates theParakletoswith the Holy Spirit.  But the ancient manuscripts are not in agreement that the Parakletosis the Holy Spirit.  For instance, the famous Codex Syriacus, written around the fifth century C.E., and discovered in 1812 on Mount Sinai, the text of 14:26 reads; Paraclete, the Spirit; and not Paraclete, theHoly Spirit.

Muslim scholars state that what Jesus actually said in Aramaic represents more closely the Greek wordperiklytoswhich means the admired one. In Arabic the word Muhammad means the praiseworthy, admired one. In other words,periklytosisMuhammad in Greek.  We have two strong reasons in its support. First, due to several documented cases of similar word substitution in the Bible, it is quite possible that both words were contained in the original text but were dropped by a copyist because of the ancient custom of writing words closely packed, with no spaces in between.  In such a case the original reading would have been, and He will give you another comforter (parakletos),the admirable one (periklytos).  Second, we have the reliable testimony of at least four Muslim authorities from different eras who ascribedadmired, praised one as a possible meaning of the Greek or Syriac word to Christians scholars.

The following are some who attest that the Paraclete is indeed an allusion to Prophet Muhammad,

TheFirst Witness

Anselm Turmeda(1352/55-1425 C.E.), a priest and Christian scholar, was a witness to the prophecy. After accepting Islām he wrote the book,Tuhfat al-arib fi al-radd ala Ahlal-Salib.

TheSecond Witness

Abdul-Ahad Dawud, wasthe former Rev. David Abdu Benjamin Keldani, BD, a Roman Catholic priest of theUniate-Chaldean sect..  After accepting Islām, he wrote the book,Muhammad in the Bible.  He writes in this book: There is not the slightest doubt that by Periqlyte, Prophet Muhammad, i.e. Ahmad, is intended.

TheThird Witness

Commenting on the verse where Jesus predicts the coming of Prophet Muhammad:

a messenger who shall come after me, whose name shall be Ahmad

Qurān 61:6

Asad explains that the word Parakletos:

[it] is almost certainly a corruption of Periklytos (the Much-Praised), an exact Greek translation of the Aramaic term or name Mawhamana.  (It is to be borne in mind that Aramaic was the language used in Palestine at the time of, and for some centuries after Jesus and was thus undoubtedly the language in which the original - now lost - texts of the Gospels were composed.) In view of the phonetic closeness of Periklytos and Parakletos it is easy to understand how the translator - or, more probably, a later scribe - confused these two expressions.  It is significant that both the Aramaic Mawhamana and the Greek Periklytos have the same meaning as the two names of the Last Prophet,Muhammad and Ahmad, both of which are derived from the Hebrew verb hamida (he praised) and the Hebrew noun hamd (praise).

Holy spirit or Prophet?

Why is it important?  It is significant because in biblical language a spirit,simply means a prophet.

Beloved, believe note very spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

It is instructive to know that several biblical scholars consideredparakletosto be anindependent salvific (having the power to save) figure, not the Holy Ghost.

Let us further study whether Jesusparakletos, Comforter, was a Holy Ghost or a person (a prophet) to come after him?  When we continue reading beyond chapter 14:16and chapter 16:7, we find that Jesus predicts the specific details of the arrival and identity of theparakletos.  Therefore, according to the context of John 14 & 16 we discover the following facts.

1.Jesus said the parakletos is a human being:

John 16:13 He will speak.

John 16:7 for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you.

It is impossible that the Comforter be the Holy Ghost because the Holy Ghost was present long before Jesus and during his ministry.

John 16:13 Jesus referred to the paraclete as he and not it seven times, no other verse in the Bible contains seven masculine pronouns.  Therefore,paracleteisa person, not a ghost.

2.Jesus is called a parakletos:

And if any man sin, we have an advocate(parakletos) with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. (1 John 2:1)

Here we see that parakletos is a physical and human intercessor.

3.The Divinity of Jesus a later innovation:

Jesus was not accepted as divine until the Council of Nicea, 325 C.E., but everyone, except Jews,agree he was a prophet of God, as indicated by the Bible:

Matthew 21:11 ...This is Jesus the prophet of Nazareth of Galilee.

Luke 24:19 ...Jesus of Nazareth, which was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people.

4.Jesus prayed to God for another parakletos:

John 14:16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another parakletos.

5. Jesus describes the function of the other Parakletos:

John 16:13 He will guide you into all the truth.

God says in the Qurān:

O mankind!  The Messenger has now come unto you with the truth from your Lord, so believe; it is better for you

Qurān 4:170

John 16:14 He will glorify Me.

The Qurān brought by Muhammad glorifies Jesus:

[And mention] when the angels said, "O Mary, indeed God gives you good tidings of a word from Him, whose name will be the Messiah, Jesus, the son of Mary distinguished in this world and the Hereafter and among those brought near [to God].

Qurān 3:45

The Prophet Muhammad also glorified Jesus, Hesaid Whoever testifies that none deserves worship except God, who has no partner, and that Muhammad is His servant and Messenger, and that Jesus is the servant of God, His Messenger, and His Word which He bestowed in Mary, and a spirit created from Him, and that Paradise is true, and that Hell is true, God will admit him into Paradise, according to his deeds.

John 16:8 he will convince the world of its sin,and of Gods righteousness, and of the coming judgment.

The Qurān announces:

They have certainly disbelieved who say, "God is the Messiah, the son of Mary" while the Messiah has said, "O Children of Israel, worship God, my Lord and your Lord." Indeed, he who associates others with God - God has forbidden him Paradise, and his refuge is the Fire.And there are not for the wrongdoers any helpers.

Qurān 5:72

John 16:13 he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, [that] shall he speak.

The Qurān says of Prophet Muhammad:

Nor doeshe speak from [his own] inclination.It is not but a revelation revealed.

Qurān 53:3-4

John 14:26and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.

The words of the Qurān:

while the Messiah has said, O Children of Israel, worship God, my Lord and your Lord.

Qurān 5:72

reminds people of the first and greatest command of Jesus they have forgotten: The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; the Lord our God is one Lord. (Mark 12:29)

John 16:13 and He will disclose to you what is to come.

The Qurān states:

That is from the news of the unseen which We reveal, [O Muhammad], to you

Qurān 12:102

Hudhaifa, a companion of Prophet Muhammad, tells us: The Prophet once delivered a speech in front of us wherein he left nothing but mentioned everything that would happen till the Hour (of Judgment).

John 14:16 that he may abide with you for ever.

meaning his original teachings will remain forever. Muhammad was Gods last prophet to humanity. His teachings are perfectly preserved. He lives in the hearts and minds of his adoring followers who worship God in his exact imitation. No man,including Jesus or Muhammad, has an eternal life on earth.Parakletosis not an exception either. This cannot be an allusion to the Holy Ghost,for present day creed of the Holy Ghost did not exist until the Council of Chalcedon, in 451 C.E., four and half centuries after Jesus.

John 14:17 he will be the spirit of truth...meaning he will be a true prophet, see 1 John 4: 1-3.

John 14:17 the world neither sees him...

Many people in the world today do not know Muhammad.

John 14:17 ...nor knows him

Fewer people recognise the real Muhammad, Gods Prophet of Mercy.

John 14:26 the Advocate (parakletos)

Prophet Muhammad will be the advocate of humanity at large and of sinful believers on Judgment Day.People will look for those who can intercede on their behalf to God to reduce the distress and suffering on the Day of Judgment.  Adam, Noah, Abraham,Moses and Jesus will excuse themselves. Then they will come to the ProphetMuhammad and he will say, I am the one who is able.  So he will intercede for the people in the Great Plain of Gathering, so judgment may be passed.  This is the Station of Praise God promises Him in the Qurān:

It may be that your Lord will raise you to the Station of Praise (the honour of intercession on the Day of Resurrection)

Qurān17:79

The Prophet Muhammad said:My intercession will be for those of my nation who committed major sins.and I shall be the first intercessor in Paradise.

Gospel of Barnabas

And [mention] when Jesus, the son of Mary, said, O children of Israel, indeed I am the messenger of God to you confirming what came before me of the Torah and bringing good tidings of a messenger to come after me, whose name is Ahmad [another name of the Prophet Muhmmad]. But when he came to them with clear evidences, they said, This is obvious magic.

Qurān 61:6

The Gospel of Barnabas is attributed to Barnabas,one of the twelve disciples of Jesus. The complete authenticity of this Gospel has not been established, but it is nevertheless startling, that there are many references explicitly naming the Prophet Muhammad in it. In chapter 163 of the Gospel we read;

Jesus went into the wilderness beyond Jordan with his disciples, and when the midday prayer was done he sat down near to a palm tree, and under the shadow of the palm-tree his disciples sat down. Then Jesus said: So secret is predestination, O brethren, that I say to you, truly, only to one man shall it be clearly known. He it is whom the nations look for, to whom the secrets of God are so clear that, when he comes into the world,blessed shall they be that shall listen to his words, because God shall over shadow them with his mercy even as this palm-tree overshadows us. Yes, even as this tree protects us from the burning heat of the sun, even so the mercy of God will protect from Satan them that believe in that man. The disciples answered, O Master, who shall that man be of whom you speak, who shall come into the world? Jesus answered with joy of heart: He isMuhammad; Messenger of God,and when he comes into the world, even as the rain makes the earth to bear fruit when for a long time it has not rained, even so shall he be occasion of good works among men, through the abundant mercy which he shall bring. For h eis a white cloud full of the mercy of God, which God shall sprinkle upon the faithful like rain.

A complete translation of the Gospel of Barnabas is available online:www.quranproject.org

RecommendedReading:

What did Jesus Really Say? by Mishaal ibn Abdullah

Izharul-Haq [Truth Revealed] by Rahmatullah Kairanvi

The Choice by Ahmed Deedat

The First and Final Commandment A Search for Truth in Revelation within Abrahamic Religions by Dr. Laurence B. Brown

Muhammadin the Bible by Prof. Abdul-Ahad Dawud

The Bibles Last Prophet by Faisal Siddiqui

The Dead Sea Scrolls, The Gospel of Barnabas and the New Testament by M.A. Yussuff

Al-Jawabas-Sahih by Ibn Taymiyyah

How do I become a Muslim? What is a Shahada? I need support & Help because my family will be against me!

How do I become a Muslim

The word Muslim means one who submits to the will of God, regardless of their race, nationality or ethnic background. Becoming a Muslim is a simple and easy process that requires no pre-requisites. If anyone has a real desire to be a Muslim and has full conviction and strong belief that Islām is the true religion of God, then, all one needs to do is pronounce the Shahada, the testimony of faith, without further delay, ideally witnessed by fellow Muslims.

The Shahada is the first and most important of the five pillars of Islām. With the pronunciation of this testimony, or Shahada, with sincere belief and conviction, one enters the fold of Islām. Upon entering the fold of Islām purely for the Pleasure of God, all of ones previous sins are forgiven, and one starts a new life of piety and righteousness. The Prophet said to a person who had placed the condition upon the Prophet in accepting Islām that God would forgive his sins: Do you not know that accepting Islām destroys all sins which come before it?

When one accepts Islām, they in essence repent from the ways and beliefs of their previous life. One need not be overburdened by sins committed before their acceptance. The persons record is clean, and it is as if he was just born from his mothers womb. One should try as much as possible to keep his records clean and strive to do as many good deeds as possible.

The Qurān and Hadeeth (Prophetic sayings) both stress the importance of following Islām. God states:

Indeed, the religion in the sight of God is Islām.Qurān 3:19

In another verse of the Holy Qurān, God states:

And whoever desires other than Islām as religion never will it be accepted from him, and he, in the Hereafter, will be among the losers.Qurān 3:85

The Prophet Muhammad said Whoever testifies that there in none worthy of being worshipped but God, Who has no partner, and that Muhammad is His slave and Prophet, and that Jesus is the Slave of God, His Prophet, and His word which He bestowed in Mary and a spirit created from Him; and that Paradise (Heaven) is true, and that the Hellfire is true, God will eventually admit him into Paradise, according to his deeds.

The Prophet of God also said,Indeed God has forbidden to reside eternally in Hell the person who says: I testify that none has the right to worship except Allah (God), seeking thereby the Face of God.


The Declaration of the Testimony (Shahada)

To convert [or more accurately revert] to Islām and become a Muslim, a person needs to pro-nounce the below testimony with conviction and understanding its meaning - with other Muslims present:

"Ash hadu Anla ilaha Illa Allah...Wa Ash hadu Anna MuHammadan Rasoolu Allah."

I testify that there is no true God (deity) but Allah (God), and that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah (God).

When someone pronounces the testimony with conviction, then he/she has become a Muslim.

The first part of the testimony consists of the most important truth that God revealed to mankind: that there is nothing divine or worthy of being worshipped except for Almighty God. God states in the Holy Qurān:

And We sent not before you any messenger except that We revealed to him that, There is no deity except Me, so worship Me.Qurān 21:25

This conveys that all forms of worship, whether it be praying, fasting, invoking, seeking refuge in, and offering an animal as sacrifice, must be directed to God and to God alone. Directing any form of worship to other than God (whether it be an angel, a messenger, Jesus, Muhammad, a saint, an idol, the sun, the moon, a tree) is seen as a contradiction to the fundamental message of Islām and it is an unforgivable sin unless it is repented from before one dies. All forms of worship must be directed to God only.

Worship means the performance of deeds and sayings that please God, things which He com-manded or encouraged to be performed, either by direct textual proof or by analogy. Thus, wor-ship is not restricted to the implementation of the five pillars of Islām, but also includes every aspect of life. Providing food for ones family and saying something pleasant to cheer a person up are also considered acts of worship, if such is done with the intention of pleasing God. This means that, to be accepted, all acts of worship must be carried out sincerely for the Sake of God alone.

The second part of the testimony means that Prophet Muhammad is the servant and chosen messenger of God. This implies that one obeys and follows the commands of the Prophet. One must believe in what he has said, practice his teachings and avoid what he has forbidden. One must therefore worship God only according to his teaching alone, for all the teachings of the Prophet were in fact revelations and inspirations conveyed to him by God.

One must try to mould their lives and character and emulate the Prophet, as he was a living example for humans to follow. God says:

And indeed, you are of a great moral character.Qurān 68:4

There has certainly been for you in the Messenger of God an excellent pattern for anyone whose hope is in God and the Last Day and [who] remembers God often..Qurān 33:21

He was sent in order to practically implement the Qurān, in his saying, deeds, legislation as well as all other facets of life. Aisha, the wife of the Prophet, when asked about the character of the Prophet, replied: His character was that of the Qurān.

To truly adhere to the second part of the Shahada is to follow his example in all walks of life. God says:

Say (O Muhammad to mankind): If you (really) love God, then follow me.Qurān 3:31

It also means that Muhammad is the Final Prophet and Messenger of God, and that no (true) Prophet can come after him.

Muhammad is not the father of [any] one of your men, but [he is] the Messenger of God and last of the prophets. And ever is God, of all things, Knowing.Qurān 33:40

All who claim to be prophets or receive revelation after Muhammad are imposters and to acknowledge them would be tantamount to disbelief.

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