Moses (sws) one of the most distinguished
Prophets of the Israelites declared the arrival of Muhammad (sws) among
the Ismaelites in the following words:
The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet
like me from among your brothers. You must listen to him... The Lord said
to me: What they say is good. I will raise up from them a Prophet like
you from among their brothers; I will put my words in his mouth, and he
will tell everything I will command him. If anyone does not listen to my
words that the Prophet speaks in my name, I myself will call him to account.
(Deuteronomy, 18:15-19)
The Prophet Jesus (sws) declared the arrival
of Muhammad (sws) in the clearest of words. In fact, the word Injil,
the Book revealed to him, means ‘glad tidings’ for it gives glad tidings
of the establishment of the Kingdom of Allah. According to Muslim scholars,
the following passages from the Bible predict in the words of Jesus (sws)
the arrival of Muhammad (sws):
Jesus said to them: Have you never read in the
scriptures that the stone the builders rejected has become the capstone;
the Lord has done this and it is marvellous in our eyes. Therefore, I tell
you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a
people who will produce its fruit. He who falls on this stone will be broken
to pieces but on whom it falls will be crushed. (Matthew, 21:42-44)
And I will ask the Father and He will give you
another Counsellor to be with you forever -- the Spirit of Truth. (John,
14:16-17)
But the Counsellor, the Holy spirit the Father
will send in my name will teach you all things and will remind you of everything
I have said to you. (John, 14:26)
I will not speak with you much longer, for the
prince of this world is coming. He has no hold on me. (John, 14:30)
But I tell you the truth: It is for your good
that I am going away. Unless I go away the Counsellor will not come to
you; but if I go away, I will send him to you. When he comes, he will convict
the world with regard to sin and righteousness and judgement; in regard
to sin because men do not believe in me; in regard to righteousness because
I am going to the Father, where you can see me no longer; and in regard
to judgement because the prince of this world now stands condemned. I have
much more to say to you, more than you can now bear. But when he, the Spirit
of Truth comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on
his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is
yet to come. (John, 14:7-13)
The Qur’an refers to the predictions
of Muhammad’s arrival in the following words:
Those who will follow the Rasul the unlettered
Nabi
whom they find mentioned in the Torah and the Injil. (7:157)
The Prophet Jesus (sws), according to
the Qur’an, proclaimed the advent of Muhammad by actually taking
his name:
And [remember] when Jesus son of Mary said to
the Israelites: ‘I am sent forth to you as the Rasul of Allah according
to the predictions mentioned in the Torah before me and have come to you
to give glad tidings of a Rasul to come after me. His name will
be Ahmad’. (61:6)
In this atmosphere of divine pre-announcements,
everyone was eagerly awaiting the arrival of the ‘prince of the world’
after the departure of Jesus (sws).
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