CHAPTER FIVE
The Nazarenes believed in a non-existent Messiah, And the Jews are waiting for the coming of the Antichrist!
In the saying of the Messiah in his foretoken:
« .. and I have no say in this matter.»
There is an allusion to the Oneness of God and that all matters return to Him . This foretold also included the two foundations of the religion : the proof to the Oneness of God, and the proof of the prophethood. What the Messiah said is cognate to what his brother (in prophethood) Muhammad bin Abdullah came with through the revelation from his Lord and through the saying of the Lord to him (to the Messiah):
“Not for thee, (but for God) is the decision: whether He tum in mercy to them, or punish them; for they are indeed wrongdoers” (al-Imran: 128)
He who contemplates the concerns of both eminent messengers and their calls would find both of them in full agreement part and parcel, and that it would be self-contradictory to believe in one and disbelieve in the other, and that the dis believers in Muhammad (peace be upon him) are in fact belying the Messiah and disbelieving
in him in the strongest terms, that is (disbelieving) in the Messiah, the son of Mary , the servant of God and His messenger . If they (the Nazarenes) believe in a Messiah different than the above-mentioned one, then they would be believing in an unreal, non-existent Messiah , and this would be the most futile of falsehoods. In the book of the news of the Disciples that they call Apocalypse (Apocrypha) John says:
« My beloved , take care not to believe in every Spirit, but distinguish between the Spirits that come from the Lord and those that come from other sources. Take notice that every Spirit that believes that Jesus the Messiah has come in the flesh is a Spirit from God, and any Spirit that does not believe that the Messiah has come in the flesh, it is not a Spirit from God, but from the Anti-Christ who is now in the world .»
Accordingly, the M uslims believe i n the true Messiah who brought with him from God the True Guidance and the religion of the Truth , who is the servant of God, His messenger and His word that He bestowed upon the Virgin Mary. On the other hand, the Messiah the Nazarenes believe in is a different Messiah, a Messiah who calls upon the people to worship him and his mother in a Trinitarian partnership with God, and that is God and the son of God . This self-styled Messiah, if he ever existed, is reminiscent of the Anti-Christ for the Anti-Christ declares himself God. In reality, the Nazarenes are the followers of this Messiah, the same Messiah the Jews are waiting for although they think they are waiting for the foretold Messiah. After the Messiah had come, instead of believing in him, they yielded their souls to the Shaytan who replaced for them the Messiah (whose arrival they witnessed) by the AntiChrist who is still to come. So is the case of every rejecter of the Truth: falsehood fills in the gaps!.
«The price paid to iblis (the Devil) and the Nazarenes, and the price paid to every haughty contender against the Truth.»
The reason for this is that when iblis, out of sheer haughtiness, turned away from prostrating to Adam, he chose the recompense in the disgraceful position of Evil headship for himself and for every nefarious criminal of his ilk. What measure of dignity there is in such a rebellious attitude! what kind of a profession he chose!. By the same token, when the Nazarenes disdainfully refused the fact that the Messiah is a servant of God, they paid for their haughtiness by rendering him a slap on the face, a scapegoat and a crucified deity in the hands of the Jews: disparaged and derided. They wove for him a wreath of thorn as a crown instead of a king’s crown , and dragged him with a rope to the stake of crucifixion, clapping and dancing around him . This refusal of theirs did not change his servanthood to God , neither did the attribution of the most appalling sort of humiliation, oppression, and repression he went through altered the
facts. On the other hand , where they refused to grant the right of having a wife or as one for the patriarchs or the monks, they attributed to God, the Lord of the Worlds, a son!!. They also refused to worship the One God who has no partners, and to follow His servant and His messenger. Instead, they held to the worship of the Cross, to the (adoration) of hand-made pictures stuck against the walls, and to the obedience of every one who makes unlawful to them what he wishes, and makes lawful to them what he desires, and legislated to them in religion what he hankers for his own accord .
Similar to this sort of compensation is the refusal of al-Jahmiah (a deviant sect) to the concept of God, (praised be He) being above the Heavens, on His Throne, manifest to His creatures lest He would be restrained in a single direction as they alleged! . Then they said that He is in every place per se . They restrained Him as such to wells, prisons, unclean places, and notorious environs. They replaced His glorious Throne by these places. Let the sane in mind contemplates on the mind tricks and illusions the Shaytan plays on the minds of similar people, paying out on them and taking them on a fantasy ride.
The saying of the Messiah:
«When I go I will send him (the Paraclete) to you.»
Indicates that he will send him to them through his pleas to God asking Him to send him. This is similar to the situation when someone requests from his guardian to send him a messenger, or appoint a man-in-charge, or give something to someone. The asker
would then say: «I have sent that man, or I have put him in charge, or I have given that man such and such» that is to say: «I have been a cause or a means in making such and such take place» . When God (praised be He) decrees for something to happen, He reckons the means through which it does happen. Some of these means are the pleas of some of His servants. When He answers the pleas it would be a blessing by itself on top of the blessing of providing the means to cause the pleas to eventuate . Abraham Al-Khalil , Muhammad’ s (peace be upon him) forefather pleaded God saying:
“Our Lord! send amongst them an Apostle of their own, who shall rehearse thy Signs to them and instruct them in scripture and wisdom, and sanctify them for thou art the Exalted in Might, the Wise” (al-Baqarah: 129)
Although God had already decreed his ( Muhammad’s ) prophethood and declared his name beforehand and this is expressed in the answer to the prophets when he was asked:
«O messenger of God! When were you chosen to be a prophet?»
«When Adam was still between the Spirit and the flesh.»
He replied.
He also said:
«In the account of God, I am written down as the Seal of the Prophets as far back in time as when Adam was still entwined in his clay mould.»
So are the subtle ways of God (praised be He)! He responds to the earnest pleas and supplications of His servants . One of the reasons of his (the prophets) victory in (the battle of) Badr is due to his trust in his Lord, and to his pleas and supplications for victory. So does He make the rainfall at exceptional times in response to the supplications, pleas, and observations of his servants . Also , what He decrees of forgiveness, mercy, and guidance could be brought about by the supplications of his servants and where others may benefit from them . Nothing stands against the possibility that after his ascension, the Messiah asked his Lord to send his brother (in prophethood) Muhammad to the world, and this would be an added blessing in the causation of the message beside the pleas of his forefather Abraham. But Abraham asked his Lord to send him (Muhammad) to this world, and for this reason God (praised be He) mentioned him, where the Messiah asked Him after his elevation and ascension to Heaven.
Contemplate the saying of the Messiah: ” I will not leave you orphans because I am coming back to you soon”, and notice how it agrees with the following saying o f his brother (in prophehood) Muhammad (peace be upon both of them) : “The son of M ary will dwell among you a just arbitrator and a fair leader. He will kill the pig and break the Cross. “In another speech he (Muhammad) said: “How could a nation be destroyed and I am at its beginning and Jesus is at its end “.
We have mentioned before the text of the Torah:
«The Lord revealed Himself from Mount Sinai, and shone from Sa’eer, and announced Himself from the Mount of Faraan.»
The scholars in Islam said- as expressed by Muhammad bin abi Qotaib-ah- that for him who reflects upon this text there is no vague concealment or textual ambiguity at all that the coming of the Lord from Mount Sinai refers to His revelation of the Torah upon Moses at this location, the same kind of revelation the people of the book believe in as we (Muslims) d o . By the same token, His shining from Sa’eer refers to His revelation of the Injeel (Bible) upon the Messiah the Messiah was one of the people of Sa ‘eer in the land of al-Khalil ( Hebron ) in a village called Nazareth, hence the attribute «Nazarene» U. By the same token also, as His shining from Sa’eer necessitated the reference to the Messiah , so is His self announcement from the Mount of Faraan; it refers to the revelation of the Qur’an upon Muhammad (peace be upon him) . The mounts of Faraan are the mounts of Makkah , and there is no disagreement about this fact between the people of the Book and the Muslims that Faraan is Makkah. If it suits their purpose (the Jews) to allege that Faraan is a location different from Makkah, their deliberate alteration and prevarication will not change the fact, and we would say to them:
«ls it not mentioned in the Torah that Abraham found a dwelling for Hajar and Ishmael in Faraan!?»
We would say to them as well:
«Then! show us the location where the Lord announced Himself, it is called Faraan, is it not!? and show us the prophet who came after the Messiah and upon whom a Book was revealed!?»
Don’t «announce» and «announce Himself» share the same meaning in the sense of «appear» or «reveal? ! » . Do you (the Jews) know of any religion that emerged manifestly like the religion of Islam, and spread about overwhelmingly eastward and westward !?. The scholars of lslam said that «Sa’eer» refers to mountains in al-Shaam (the lands of al-Shaam (Syria) included Palestine) from which the Messiah emerged . Beside these mountains lies the village of Bethlehem where the Messiah was born, and it is called Sa’eer, and in its environs stand the mountains of S a ‘ eer. It is mentioned in the Torah that the off-spring of «Ays» were the inhabitants of Sa’eer and that God forbid Moses not to cause them any harm . The Sheikh of Islam (probably lbn Tayrniah who was the mentor of lbn al-Qayim.) said:
«According to this account, the Torah would have mentioned the three mountains of Hira which are the highest mountains around Makkah, and at which the Messenger of God (peace be upon him) started his message through the Revelation sent down upon him. There are many other mountains around this area; but this very place is called Faraan till this present time, and the wilderness between Makkah and the Mount of Sinai is called the «wilderness of Faraan».
No one can presume that after the coming of the Messiah no book was revealed in any sort in this land nor was a prophet sent; once the presumer realises that what is meant in His culmination on the mountains of Faraan cannot be anything other than the envoyship of Muhammad (peace be upon him). God (praised be He) mentioned these events in the Torah as they will occur in the sequence of time. He mentioned the revelation of the Torah, then the Bible, then the Qur’an. These Books are the light of God and His Guidance . In the first Book ( the Torah ) He said: « Came and appeared» In the second (the Bible), He said: shone, and in the third (the Qur’an), He said: «culminated». In similitude, the revelation of the Torah was like the coming of the dawn, and the revelation of the Bible was like the rising of the sun, and the revelation of the Qur’an
was like the culmination of the sun in the sky. For this reason (the Torah says that) He culminated from the mountains of Faraan, for, in Muhammad (peace be upon him) the light and Guidance of God appeared all over the world in a way greater than the appearance of the two former Books. It became manifest like the spreading of sunshine, eastward and westward of the earth when the sun culminates in the middle of the sky. That is why God called it (the Qur’ an) the «shining lamp» and called the sun «glowing lamp» and the people need the shining lamp more than the glowing lamp. They may need all the time and in every place, day and night, secretly and openly . God Most Sublime did mention these three places in His saying:
“By the Fig and the Olive * And the Mount of Sinai * And this City of security” (at-teen: 1-2-3-) = Fig Tree
The fig and the olive trees are natives of the Holy lands where the Messiah was sent out from and in which the Bible was revealed upon him . The Mount of Sinai is the mount on which God spoke to Moses in words and called him from the Sacred Valley, from the blessed spot of the tree implanted in it. The «City of Security» is Makkah where He granted a dwelling to Abraham , and to Ishmael and his mother (Hagar) , and it is called «Faraan» as explained above . As the Torah contains an account of these events, they are mentioned in a chronological order. The first event is mentioned first, followed by the next, where in the Qur’an God pledged oath to them (the Books) by glorifying their standing, and by manifesting His Omnipotence and the invincible power of His verses, His Books, and His messengers. He pledged oath to His Books in a gradual manner, step by step. He started with a high gradation then moved on to a higher one, then to a gradation higher than the gradation of both former Books, for the highest of all Books is the Qur’ an, then the Torah, then the Bible, and so are the prophets.
That is what ibn Qutaibah and other Muslim scholars mentioned. He who contemplates the Torah would find it speaking out these facts forthrightly. It is mentioned in it that:
«God promised Abraham, so he took the lad, took bread, and gave him water to drink and entrusted him to Hagar to take him with her . She laid the lad under a tree and sat facing him at about a stone throw away from him avoiding to see the lad dying . She raised her voice crying and God heard the voice of the lad where he was. The angel said to her: stand up and carry the child and hold tight to him for God is preparing him to lead a great nation. God opened her eyes, she sighted a well of water, she gave the lad to drink and she filled her waterskin . God was guarding the lad all the time . He grew up and dwelled in the wilderness of Faraan. »
This is the narration of the Torah that Ishmael grew up and dwelled in the wilderness of Faraan after he was on the verge of dying from thirst, and that God brought him to drink from a well of water. It is well known through a succession of knowledge and through the agreement of all nations that Ishmael was brought up in Makkah, and with h i s father Abraham they built the House (Ka’bah), then it became an established fact, without any shadow of doubt, that Faraan is in the land of Makkah.
A similar foreword is narrated by Sham’oon(Simon) . It describes what they (the Jews) accepted in context and interpretation:
«The Lord came from the mountains of Faraan, and the Heavens and the Earth became full of praises to him and to his people.»
No man came from the mountains of Faraan where the Heavens and the Earth became full of praises to him and his people other than Muhammad (peace be upon him) . The Messiah had never been in the land of Faraan, and Moses was spoken to from the Mount and this Mount is not in the land of Faraan even if the wilderness between Makkah and the Mount is called «the wilderness of Faraan». God did not send the Torah in it. The foretoken of the Torah was already preluded to the Mount of Sinai , and the foretoken of the Bible mentions the mount of Sa’ eer.
Similar to this is what they conveyed, and the interpretation they accepted, in the prophethood of Habquq (Habakkuk):
«The Lord came from the fig, and the Holiness appeared on the mountains of Faraan, and the earth became full of songs of praises to the laudable (Ahmad), and he possessed with his right hand the leadership of the nations, and the earth shone out of light, and his horses were carried on the sea.»
Ibn Qotaibah said that some of the people of the Book included in this passage the following addition:
«to your armour many races will flock , and the arrows will satiably quench their thirst by your order and your envoyship O Muhammad .»
This would be a frank statement of his name and characteristics. If they allege that this statement describes a person other than he, who is this «laudable» (Ahmad) person who made the earth become full of his praises, who came from the mountains of Faraan and who owned the leadership of the nations!?.
6-In chapter nine of the first book of the Torah, we read:
«When Hajar parted company with Sarah, the angel of the Lord addressed her; he said: O ‘ Hagar! Where did you come from and where are you going?. When she explained to him her predicament, he said to her: Go back, I will give you so many descendants that no one will be able to keep count of. You are going to have a son, and you will call him Ishmael because the cord has heard your cries of distress. But your son will live like a beast among the people. He will be against everyone and everyone will be against him, and his dwelling will be on the borders of all of his brethren.»
Those who investigate the sequential events of this foretoken will find out that before the envoyship o f Muhammad (peace be upon him) the hand of the people of lshmael was not above the hand of the people of Ishaaq, as it is well known . The people of Ishaaq had in their hands the succession of the prophethood and the Book. During the time of Joseph, they entered Egypt with Ya’akub (Jacob) and the people of lshmael had no hand over them . When Moses was sent out, they departed from Egypt and , with him, they were some of the most cherished people on earth : no one had a hand over them . They stayed with Joshua till the time of David, then, Solomon the king, who was granted a dominion unmatched by any other dominion granted to anyone, was next, and the hand of the people of Ishmael was not above them . Then God sent out the Messiah . They disbelieved in him and believed him . Their belying fell upon them with destruction: their dominion vanished once and for all, and God dispersed them on earth separate people, and they were subjugated under the reign of the Romaens and the Persians, and the hand of the son of Ishmael was not above them in this case either, and was not above the hand of all the people till God sent out Muhammad (peace be upon him) with His message, and ennobled him with the prophethood. With his envoyship, the hand of the people of Ishmael became above all, and no dominion on earth was mightier than theirs, where they conquered the kingdoms of Persia, the Turks, Byzantium, and others. They conquered the Jews, the Nazarenes, the Magians, the Sabians, and the idolaters. In this, the interpretation of His saying in the Torah becomes more obvious:
«and his hand will be above the hand of all and every.» and this is a continuous matter till the end of time. The Jews said:
«We d o not deny that, but this is a foretoken of his grasp of power, his arrival, and his subjugation to others, and not a foretoken of a message he carries, or a prophethood bestowed upon him.»
The Muslims said that «a dominion» is of two kinds:
- A dominion unassociated with prophethood; but associated, instead, with oppression and tyranny.
- A dominion associated with prophethood by virtue.
The foretoken does not describe the first kind of dominion, especially, when the person it portrays, attributes to himself the prophethood and the message where he is a lying impostor against God. In such a case this person would be the most wicked, the most dissolute , and the most entrenched unbeliever of God’s creatures. This foretoken does not point out to the dominion of such an impostor ; on the contrary, it warns against falling down in his beguilement in the same manner the warning against the beguilement of the Anti-Christ came to pass. Such an impostor would be more wicked than Sennacherib (704 68 1 B . C . ) and Nebuchadnezzar (630 562 B. C . ) and the rest of the iniquitous and tyrannous kings who told falsehoods about God . Had this foretoken been pointed out at the coming of such an impostor, it would have not brought happiness to Hajar and Abraham. No one would have proclaimed it as glad tidings, and it would have not been a fair recompense for her cries of distress, and for God to have heard her cries of distress and to have had promised her of a great child whom He will prepare for the leadership of a great nation! For the disclaimers of the Truth , this would be as if God had said : «you will give birth to a tyrannous, oppressive despot who will subjugate the people with falsehood, massacre the servants of God, lead their women into captivity, pilfer their fortunes, alter the religions of the prophets, lie to God, and the like. » He who would give this foretoken such a bearing would be the most spelling, the most malicious of God’s creatures. This is not reprehensible for the nation which incurred God’ s wrath to do : the slayers of the prophets, the people of falsehood.
7-The saying of David in the Book of psalms:
«praise the Lord anew, and let Israel rejoice and be pleased with his Creator and with the House of Zion, for the Lord has chosen for him his people, and has given him victory and bestowed honour upon them in praising Him in beds, singing the Greatness of the Lord in loud voices and holding in their hands swords with two blades to revenge through them from the nations that do not worship Him, to bind their kings in chains and their noblemen in shackles.»
These descriptions apply to Muhammad and his people: they are the people who glorify God with loud voices and calling to prayer five times a day and from high places.
Jaber said:
«When we were in the company of the Prophet (peace be upon him) , we glorified God when we went up, and sang the praises of His Names when we came down, and accordingly, the prayer was set.»
The Muslims are the people who sing the Greatness of God in loud and clamorous voices during the call for prayer, at the feast of al-Fitr (following the fasting month of Ramadhan), and at the Great feast.
(approximately two months and ten days following the feast o f al-Fitr) , a t the tenth day of zul ‘hjj-ah (the last month o f the Islamic calendar), and following the prayers in the days of Mina (part of the pilgrimage) : (Allah-hu-Akbar).
Al-Bukhari mentioned that Omar bin al-Khattab used to chant the Greatness of God at Mina, and the people of the Masjid (Mosque) used to hear him and join him in chanting: «Allah is Great». As their voices accrued, they reached the people in the Souq (market place) and they used to join them glorifying God till all of Mina resonated. Abu-Hurayrah and the son of Omar used to go out to the Souq during the ten days period (of Zulhij-jah) chanting the Greatness of God, and the people used to chant with them. During the Throwing-of-the-Stones , and in Safa and Marwa, when facing the Black Stone, and following the five prayers, abu-Hurayrah and the son of Omar used to chant the Greatness of God including the singing in favour of their off-springs and during the sacrifices offerings. None of the other nations, neither the people of the Book
nor other people, sing the Greatness of God in this manner. The Jews call upon the people to gather by blowing the horn, and the Nazarenes by ringing the bells. Chanting: «God is Great» in loud voices is the characteristic of Muhammad bin Abdullah and his people. The phrase: «in their hands swords with two blades» refers to the Arab swords the Companions used in conquering the lands, and up to the present time, these two blade swords are attributed to the Arabs. The phrase:
«praising Him in bed» is one of the attributes of the believers:
“Men who celebrate the praises of God, standing, sitting, and lying down on their sides, and contemplate the (wonders of) creation in the heavens and the earth, (with the thought): our Lord! not for naught hast thou created (all) this! glory to thee! Give us salvation from the penalty of the Fire”(al-Imran: 191)
It is known and without any shadow of doubt that this foretoken does not apply to the Nazarenes, and it does not fit in their belief, for they do not chant: «Allah is Great» in loud voices, and they do not use two blade swords endorsed by God to revenge through them from the nations . Besides , the Nazarenes dishonour those who use swords to fight the unbelievers, and among them, there are those who consider this (the usage of sword) a source of repugnance, directed at Muhammad (peace be upon him) . Out of their ignorance and their drifting from the Truth, they forgot that Moses fought the unbelievers, so did Joshua bin Noon, David and Solomon, and other succeeding prophets , and so did Abraham before them (peace be upon all of them).
8-The saying of David:
«For this reason the Lord has blessed you for ever. Carry your swords O mighty man because the splendour is for your face, and the overly praise is upon you. Mount the word of the Truth and praise the Lord. Your laws and tenets are tantamount to your revered right side, your arrows are sharp, and the nations fall down on their knees in front of you.»
None of the prophets after David wore a sword other than Muhammad (peace be upon him) . In front of him nations fell down on their knees, and his sharia is the one compared to the state of reverence : either accept the belief or pay the Jizyah , or else the sword! , and this comes in agreement with his saying (peace be upon him):
«I was given triumph by instilling fear in the length of one month’s journey.»
The prophet David recounted that he (Muhammad) will come with laws and rules ( sharia) , and he addressed him by the word «mighty» an indication to his influential capability in conquering the enemies of God as opposed to someone who is enfeebled or conquered. He (peace b e upon him) is the Prophet of mercy and the Prophet of heroic battles, and his people are resolved against the unbelievers, and compassionate among each other, humble and modest with the believers, and determined and to be reckoned with against the unbelievers as opposed to a lowly and subdued self conceited people who abase themselves to the enemies of God, and arrogantly shun away from accepting the Truth.
9-The saying of David in another psalm :
«The Lord praised be He showed to Zion a lauded wreath , and He set upon this wreath an example of leadership and guidance.»
The lauded wreath is Muhammad (peace be upon him) , and of his attributes David said:
«He will gain control from one sea to the other, from the rivers to the springs of the earth, and the people of the islands will fall down to their knees in front of him. His enemies will lick the sand, the kings of Persia will come to him prostrating, and the nations will yield to him in obedience and submission. He will free the humiliated and the miserable from the oppressor, rescue the helpless weak, show mercy and kindness to the poor and the weak, and will be praised and blessed at each and every day.»
No man of reason would study the history of the kingdoms and the prophethoods with out knowing the biography of Muhammad (peace be upon him) and the history of his people after him, and without knowing that these descriptions do not apply to anybody other than he and his people. He gained control from the Romaean to the Persian sea, from the rivers Jayhun and Sayhun and the Euphrate to the stretch of land in the west, and this agrees with his (Muhammad’s) saying:
«The earth yielded to me and I was shown all the places of sunrise and sunset, East and West, and the dominion of my people will reach the farthest of its (the earth’s) places .»
It is he who is praised and blessed at each and every day and during each of the five daily prayers, and on other occasions . It is in between whose hands the people of the islands fell to their known people of the Arabian peninsula, the people of the island between the Euphrates and Tigris , the people of the islands of Indonesia, and the people of the island of Cyprus. The kings of Persia succumbed him: they either embraced Islam or paid the Jizyah, feeling humble as opposed to the kings of Romaea among whom there were some who neither embraced Islam nor paid the Jizyah. For this reason Persian kings were particularly mentioned in the foretoken. The nations who heard about him and his people acknowledged how some believed in him, some lived in peace with him. He rescued the weak from the tyrant, and this is different from the way of the Messiah who did not reach a similar influence during his lifetime nor did his followers after his Ascension to heaven. They do not stand for an equal mention , nor do they pray for his salvation and chant blessings upon him everyday and every night. In contrast, they believe in his divine nature and sovereign lordship , and they pray to him.
10-In another verse of the psalms, David said:
«let the deserts and their villages rest, let the land of Qizaar become green pastures, let the cave-dwellers sing and chant from the feet of the mountains praising the Lord, and let them spread praises across the sky. »
Who are the people of the desert among the nations other than the people of Muhammad !?, and who is Qizaar other than the son of Ishmael- one of Muhammad’s ancestors – ! ? . And who are the cattle dwellers and the dwellers at the feet of the hills other than the Arabian and who is the one whose name lasted for ever other than he?.
11 -In another verse of the psalms, David said:
«Our Lord ennobled the lauded»
(lauded = Mahmood, in Arabic)
In another location, David said:
«Our Lord is the Most Holy, and the lauded (Muhammad) fill the whole earth with joy.»
David did mention the name of Muhammad and his country, and that his word will fill the earth.
12-His saying to David in psalms:
«A child will be born to you * (missing words)* and to me he will be called a son . By God, send the deliverer of the law to teach the people that he is human.»
These are some news about the Messiah and Muhammad (peace be upon him) long before they were born. It means that God will send Muhammad to teach the people that the Messiah is a man, not a god, and that he is the son of a human being and not the son of the Creator of human beings. So God sent the Guider o f the people and the Reliever of confusion and distress who made the reality and the identity of the Messiah clear to the nations, that he is a noble servant of God, and a sent prophet of God, and that he is neither what the Nazarenes allege he is, nor what the Jews accused him of.
3-His saying in the prophecy of isaiah:
«It was said to me to stand up as a watcher and tell what I see. I said : I see two coming riders, one on a donkey and one on a camel, and is telling the other: (Babylon had fallen and its idols fell in the sea) . The donkey rider is in our belief as well as in the Nazarenes’: the Messiah, and the camel rider is Muhammad (peace be upon both of them).»
Muhammad (peace be upon him) is more known of a camel rider than the Messiah , who is more known of a donkey rider than Muhammad (peace be upon him). With Muhammad (peace be upon him) the idols of Babylon fell down and not with the Messiah. In the district of Babylon there were still some idol worshippers since the time of Abraham , the friend of God, till they fell to Muhammad (peace be upon him) .
14 – His saying in the prophecy of lsaiah that he said about Makkah:
«lift up your sight to me from all around you, you will be happy and delighted for the Lord, Most Sublime, will render to you the riches of the sea, and hosts of peoples will perform pilgrimage to you till you encompass the lands of many camel herds , and your land becomes narrower than to accommodate the nations that will aggregate inside your borders , and the rams of Madyan led to you, and the people of Sheba come to you, and the sheep of Faraan walk toward you, and the sons of Nabal will serve you.»
The sons of Nabal are the sons of lshmael. There is a general agreement that all of these descriptions and events apply to Makkah for the riches of the sea were carried to it, and hosts of people from all nations journeyed in pilgrimage to it, and the herds of sheep from Faraan were led to it including many gifts, sacrifices, and offerings, and its land became narrower than to accommodate visitors from the lands of many camel herds with all they carried with them, and the people of Sheba, that is the people of Yemen, flocked to it.
15-Another saying of Isaiah about Makkah:
«As I did during the days of Noah, I took upon myself a solemn oath to inundate the earth with a deluge, I will not resent or reject you. The mountains disappear, the hills fall down ; but My mercy upon you shall not disappear.»
Then he said:
«O you poor.and down-trodden! Here I am, I see the beauty in your stones and the jewels like qualities of your excellence . With pearls your ceiling is adorned, with chrysolite your doors. Far away from darkness you are, do not be afraid, weakness shall not affect you, nor any weapon made by anyone to use it against you. Every tongue and language that stands up in hostility against you, you will succeed over them, and the Lord will give you a new name (meant to be the Holy mosque in Makkah) . Stand up and shine for your light is approaching, and the blessing of the Lord is upon you. Look with your eyes around you gathered; your sons and daughters will flock to you running, then you will rejoice and feel proud, and your enemy will be scared . Let your heart encompass all, and all the sheep of Qizar ·come to you, and the descendants of Nabal serve you.»
The Nabatines are the sons of Nabal bin Ishmael, and Qizar i s the grandfather of the Prophet (peace be upon him) , and he is the brother of Banat the son of ishmael.
Then he said :
«Your doors will open the night and the day, and will never close, and the people will take you a Qiblah, (direction in prayers) and you will be called thenceforth: the city of the Lord.»
16-also h i s saying about Makkah:
” Be pleased and shake O’you the barren city which did not give birth (to a prophet) and chant the praises of the Lord, and rejoice for you did not become pregnant (yet) . Your people will become more in number than my people ” , meaning the people of Jerusalem. By ” barren ” he meant ” Makkah ” because no prophet emerged from Makkah before the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). ” Barren” does not apply here to Jerusalem because Jerusalem is known to be the house of the prophets and the origin of the Revelation where many prophets were born.
17 -Again another saying of Isaiah about Makkah (May God ennoble it):
«I give the desert the munificence of Lebanon and the beauty of Catramal».
These (locations) are al-Shaam (Syria) and Jerusalem. He meant to say to bring about the munificence that was in that area through the revelation, through the certainty of the prophets to the people of the semi desert and their confirmation to the coming of the Prophet (peace be upon him) , and through the pilgrimage (Hajj).
Then he said:
«Water will furrow its way through the semi-desert, and the green plant will replenish the Sahara desert . Springs of water will gush in the arid lands and the thirsty places, and the land will become a pilgrimage and the way to Haram (The Holy Mosque) , and the defiled people of the nations will not pass through , and the ignorant will not reach it. There will be no beasts of prey nor lions, and there will be a passage to the sincerely devoted faithful.»
- Also the saying of lsaiah in his book about the Haram :
«The wolf and the camel will revel in it together. »
which is a n allusion t o the peacefulness that God bestowed on it before other places on earth , hence He called it «the Safa land» (al-Balad al-Ameen).
Counting His bounties on His people, He said:
“For the covenants (of security and safeguard enjoyed) by the Quraysh * Their covenants (covering) journeys by winter and summer * Let them adore the Lord of this House * Who provides them with food against hunger, and with security against fear (of danger) “ (Quraysh: 1-2-3-4-)
18-The saying of Isaiah declaring the name of the Messenger of God (peace be upon him):
«I have made your ordinance O Muhammad with praise, O you the sanctified servant of the Lord ! Your name was created since eternity.»
Could there be any shadow of uncertainty after that in the mind of a server or a discreditor!? «the sanctified servant of the Lord» means : the one whom the Lord purified , redeemed and chose. His saying: «your name was created since eternity» agrees with the saying of David: in one of his psalms : «your name existed before the sun.»
19-The saying of lsaiah about the Black stone:
«The Lord and the Master! Here I am founding through Zion a stone in one of its corners. Let him who is a believer not rush us (querying) , I am making justice like a plummet and truthfulness a balance that the enamoured in lies will perish.»
To the people of the Book, Zion is Makkah, and the Black stone, kissed by the kings and their underlings, is what He (God) distinguished by Muhammad and his nation.
20-The saying of Isaiah in another passage:
«The semi-desert and the cities will be full of palaces till Qizar, and from the tops of the mountains . Those who revere the Lord and sing His praises in the dry land and in the sea will call upon them .»
He also said :
« From far I shall raise a banner for the nations, fluttering for them to come from the farthest end of the earth , and come they shall.»
Banu (the people of) Qizar are the Arabs because, by unanimous agreement of all the people, Qizar is the son of Ishmael . The hoisted banner is the prophethood . The «fluttering» or «whistling up» is the calling upon all the people all over the earth to journey to the pilgrimage (Hajj), and they shall rush coming over, and this agrees with His saying (Most Exalted, Most Sublime):
“And proclaim the pilgrimage among men: they will come to thee on foot and (mounted) on every kind of camel, lean on account of journeys through deep and distant mountain highways” (al-Hajj : 28)
21 -The saying of lsaiah in another passage:
«I shall raise from the direction of sunrise a group of people coming from the East, compliant in masses, numerous and kind in Spirit, and are like a potter who treads on the clay by his feet.»
The «youths» come from where the sun rises . From there, God (praised be He) brought up a nation from the people of the East: compliant, respondent, and as numerous as the grains of the sand. His saying: «like a potter who treads on the clay by his foot» it either means: «hastening to perform the circumambulation (around the Ka’ ah) and the running (seven times) between Safa and Marwah (ritual performed during the pilgrimage)» or «man whose legs got fatigued due to the excessive walking they made».
22-His saying in the Book of lsaiah:
«O My servant! with My Grace and My satisfaction, I shall cause My Spirit to dawn upon him».
«I shall bring down My Spirit upon him, he will show My justice and mercy to the nations, enjoin the nations to obey My Commandments. He does not laugh or speak in a loud voice in the markets . He makes the blind eye see, the deaf hear, and he will revitalise the closed hearts . What I give him I shall give nobody else. He weakens not, becomes defeated not, nor does he incline to leisureliness. He does not speak loud in the markets . He is a cornerstone to the humble. He is the unquenchable, unflickering light of the Lord till he firmly establishes the foundations of My cause on Earth, and after him no excuse shall be accepted.»
Would any person find these descriptions applicable to anybody other than Muhammad bin Abdullah (peace be upon h im) ! ? Even if the whole people of the world meet, they cannot find a mention of another prophet encompassing all of these qualities. His saying: «My servant» is in agreement with His saying in the Qur’an:
“And if ye are in doubt as to what We have revealed from time to time to Our servant, then produce a Sura like thereunto; and call your witnesses or helpers (If there are any) besides God, if your (doubts) are true”(al-Baqarah: 23)
“Blessed is He who sent down the Criterion to His servant, that it may be an admonition to all creatures “(al-Furqan: 1)
“Yet when the Devotee of God stands forth to invoke Him, they just make round him a dense crowd ,(al-Jinn: 19)
“Glory to (God) who did take His Servant for a journey by night from the Sacred Mosque to the Farthest Mosque, whose precincts We did bless in order that We might show him some of Our Signs: for He is the one who heareth and seeth (all things) ,(al-Israa, or Bani Israel : 1)
And His saying:
«With My Grace and My Satisfaction»
agrees with the saying of the Prophet (peace be upon him) :
«God chose Cananah from among the descendents of Ishmael ,
and chose Quraysh from Cananah, and chose bani H ashim from
Quraysh, and chose me from bani Hashim.»
His saying: «he laughs not» agrees with Ayshah’s description of him (peace be upon him) . She said:
«The Messenger of God was never seen laughing in a way his uvula would be seen; he used to smile.»
This is because too much laughter is a sign of levity of the soul, and of mindlessness. And this is contrary to smiling, which is a sign of good nature and perfect understanding. As for his (peace be upon him) description in the latter books as «the deadly laugher» it meant to say that if need be his laughter and good nature would not prevent him from expressing himself as such without exceeding the limits and the rights due to God. It would not prevent him from smiling in due course . He would give every occasion the expression that suits it most, for abandoning laughter all together is a sign of haughtiness, snobbery, and bad temperament, while the excess of it is a sign of unbecoming jocularity and lightheadedness.
Moderation is the key.
His saying:
«I shall descend My Spirit upon him»
agrees with His (Most Sublime) saying:
“And thus have we, by our command, sent inspiration to thee: thou knewest not (before) what was Revelation, and what was Faith; but We have made the (Qur’an) a light, wherewith We guide such of our servants as We will; and verily thou dost guide (men) to the Straight way” (al-Shura : 52)
“He doth send down His angels with inspiration of His command, to such of His servants as He pleaseth, (saying) : «warn (Man) that there is no god but I: so do your duty unto Me.» “(al-Nahl: 2)
“Raised high above ranks (of degrees), (He is) the Lord of the Throne (of inspiration) to any of His servants He pleases, that it may warn (men) of the Day of Mutual meeting. ,(Ghafer: 15)
We call the Revelation «a Spirit» because the lives of the heart: and the Spirits are through it, so are the lives of the physical bodies changed to souls.
«Show the world My justice».
it agrees with the saying of the Most Sublime:
“Because of that, you ˹O Prophet˺ will invite ˹all˺. Be steadfast as you are commanded, and do not follow their desires. And say, “I believe in every Scripture Allah has revealed. And I am commanded to judge fairly among you. Allah is our Lord and your Lord. We will be accountable for our deeds and you for yours. There is no ˹need for˺ contention between us. Allah will gather us together ˹for judgement˺. And to Him is the final return.” (al-Shura: 15)
And His saying about the people of the Book:
They eagerly listen to falsehood and consume forbidden gain. So if they come to you ˹O Prophet˺, either judge between them or turn away from them. If you turn away from them, they cannot harm you whatsoever. But if you judge between them, then do so with justice. Surely Allah loves those who are just. (al-Ma’idah: 42)
And His saying:
«Enjoin the nations to obey My commandments».
agrees with His saying:
He has ordained for you ˹believers˺ the Way which He decreed for Noah, and what We have revealed to you ˹O Prophet˺ and what We decreed for Abraham, Moses, and Jesus,1 ˹commanding:˺ “Uphold the faith, and make no divisions in it.” What you call the polytheists to is unbearable for them. Allah chooses for Himself whoever He wills, and guides to Himself whoever turns ˹to Him˺. (al-Shura: 13)
“Say, ˹O Prophet,˺ “Come! Let me recite to you what your Lord has forbidden to you: do not associate others with Him ˹in worship˺. ˹Do not fail to˺ honour your parents. Do not kill your children for fear of poverty. We provide for you and for them. Do not come near indecencies, openly or secretly. Do not take a ˹human˺ life—made sacred by Allah—except with ˹legal˺ right.1 This is what He has commanded you, so perhaps you will understand. And do not come near the wealth of the orphan—unless intending to enhance it—until they attain maturity. Give full measure and weigh with justice. We never require of any soul more than what it can afford. Whenever you speak,1 maintain justice—even regarding a close relative. And fulfil your covenant with Allah. This is what He has commanded you, so perhaps you will be mindful. Indeed, that is My Path—perfectly straight. So follow it and do not follow other ways, for they will lead you away from His Way. This is what He has commanded you, so perhaps you will be conscious ˹of Allah˺.” (al-An’am: 151-152-153-)
And his enjoinments (peace b e upon him) are his entrustments to the world to fear God and to worship Him alone and none with Him, and to keep up with close observance what He sent of guidance: the religion of the Truth, and to believe in Him, His angels, his Books, His messengers, and in the Return to Him.
As for His saying: «does not hear his voice in the markets . . » it means that he is not a man of hubhub and uproaring clamour like someone lacking in clemency and dignified bearing.
As for his saying :
«He makes the blind see, the deaf hear, and he revitalises the closed hearts.»
It is a sign to the completion of the stages of knowledge and guidance brought about by his call and delivered to the hearts, sights, and hearing faculties . This is contrasted with the state of the deaf, the dumb , and the blind people who harbour hearts but anchor no understanding. Guidance reaches a person from these three portals which are closed in front of everyone, and which can be opened only through the Messengers of God. Through Muhammad {peace be upon him) God opened the blind eyes and made them see the words of God, made the deaf ears hear, and they heard the words of God; made the closed hearts understand, and they understood the words of God . They submitted to His obedience in their minds, sayings, and deeds, and they humbly followed the paths that pleases Him.
As for His saying:
«What I shall give him I shall give nobody else,»
It is in agreement with his saying (peace be upon him) :
«I was given what was not given to any prophet before me.»
and in agreement with the statement of the angels when they drew his example:
«This prophet was given what no other prophet was given before. His eyes go to sleep while his heart stays alert. »
Accordingly, he was sent to all the people of the world, and with him the Book of the prophets was sealed. The Qur’an was revealed to him : no Book, similar or close to it, was revealed from the heavens before. It was revealed upon his heart, retained , safeguarded, rehearsed and recited. Its retention to memory was safeguarded for him till God brings about the Day of Judgement. He was given the comprehensive mastery of truthful expressions, and was supported by victory through instilling fear in the hearts of his enemies while there was between them a distance of one month’s journey. The (impressive) rows of the people of his nation, while praying, are orchestrated like the rows of the angels in Heaven, and the Earth was made a place of prostration (to God) for him and his people. In a nocturnal journey to the seven Heavens, God brought up his servant where he saw what no human being before him had ever seen . He was elevated in rank above all the prophets, and rendered to be the master of all the descendents of Adam , and his message spread all over the world. The number of people who embraced his religion exceeded far and beyond the followers of all other prophets from the days of Noah till the days of the Messiah. His nation is two-thirds the people of paradise. He (God) bestowed upon him «The Means» which is the highest rank in paradise, «The Commendable Standing» (al- Maqaam al-Mahmud), deemed blissful by the former and the latter, «The Supreme Intercession» which is not given neither to Adam nor to Noah, Abraham, Moses, and Jesus. Through him God exalted the Truth and the people of rightness, an exaltation never bestowed before him upon anyone, and through him He abased falsehood and the clan of falsehood, an abasement never stroke in its intensity anybody before him . He bestowed upon him of knowledge, courage, patience, asceticism in worldly things, and earnestness for the Hereafter, heart-felt worship and Spiritual knowledge that He gave no prophet before him . The charity from him and from his nation was rendered equivalent to ten times its value, to seven hundred folds, to many more folds. He was granted an exceptional
leverage for mistakes and forgetfulness, and for what his people may do under coercion. All of His angels praised him alongside with the praises of God and His peace. He bid all of His believing servants to ask Him to bless him and grant him peace. He joined His name to his: when God is mentioned, he is mentioned with Him as in the sermons, in the professing of the Oneness of God, and in the call for prayer. It is not deemed authentic for anyone to call for prayer, or deliver a sermon, or perform a prayer, till he professes that he (the Prophet) is God’ s servant and messenger. God did not give leave for anybody’s order to be obeyed, neither during his lifetime nor after him and this holds till this life on earth comes to end with all that is on it. He closed the doors of paradise except to those who conduct themselves by his example and follow his lead. He rendered the banner of commendation ( Hamd) in his hand and; Adam and all the prophets were under his banner on the Day of Judgement. He made him the first away from whom the earth splits up, the first intercessor and the first prophet, the first to knock at the door of Paradise and the first to enter it. No one of the former or the latter times will enter it without his intercession. He was given of certainty, faith, patience, constancy, and strength in the cause of God, and resolution in fulfilling His commands, satisfaction with His favours , contentment in pleasing Him and obeying Him inwardly and outwardly, secretly and openly, within himself and among the creation, what no prophet before was given . He who knows the state of affairs of the world, and the biography of the prophets and the history of their nations would realise that the matter is above that. When the Day of Judgement has arrived, the creation will see some of this glory, that which no eye has ever seen, no ear has ever heard, and never occurred to the heart of a human being. This explains His saying:
«He weakens not, becomes defeated not».
That is how his matter was (peace be upon him) . He never weakened in the cause of God, nor did he weaken in solitude, in the time of fewness of his followers and the surplus of his enemies and the ganging up of the people of the earth against him . Rather than that, he was the strongest of the creation, the steadiest in composure, and the bravest at heart, to the extent that in t1ie battle of Uhud his companions were wounded and killed; but he never weakened nor gave up. Instead , the following day, with the severity of the infliction, he went after his enemies . Surprised and frightened, they ran away beaten, and scrammed in spite of the abundance in their numbers and logistics and the unpreparedness of his companions. Again, in the battle of Hunayn, he was cornered with less than ten of his companions beside him . His enemies surrounded him thousands over thousands in numbers. He asserted his courage in front of them saying:
As for His saying:
«nor inclines to leisureliness» .
It describes the way he led his life. He was the most abstemious of the people in pastime and leisureliness; rather than that, all his life was diligence, resoluteness and decisiveness, and his meeting was a sitting of modesty, kindness, faith, dignity, and peace of mind.
As for His saying:
«he does not laugh or speak in a loud voice in the markets» it means that he was not boisterous in the markets seeking worldly gains and coveting to hold on to them like the people whose intent for worldly gains was their major drive.
As for His saying:
«He is a cornerstone to the humble» .
It is self-explanatory for those who contemplates his biography; would find him the greatest of the people in humbleness toward the young, the aged, the indigent, the widow, the freeman as well as the bondman . He used to sit with them on the bare earth, listening to them, answering their pleas, setting out with the one with the most urgent need, reclaiming his right for him from the person nobody dares to approach. He used to patch his shoe and stitch his garment.
As for His saying:
«He is the unquenchable, unflickering light of the Lord till he sets the foundations of My cause on earth, and after him no excuse shall be accepted,»
It agrees with his state of affairs, and on more than one occasion, the Qur’an testified to that, like in His saying (Most Sublime):
“Vain would they extinguish God’s light with their mouths, but God will not allow but that His light should be perfected, even though the unbelievers may detest (it). “(al-Tawbah: 32)
“O prophet! Truly We have sent thee as a witness, a bearer of Glad Tidings, and a Warner * And as one who invites to God’s (Grace) by His leave, and as a lamp spreading light “(al-Ahzaab: 45- 46-)
“There bath come to you from God a (new) light and a perspicuous Book * Where God guideth all who seek His good pleasure to ways of peace and safety “(al-Ma’idah: 15- 16)
“O mankind! verily there bath come to you a convincing proof from your Lord: for We have sent unto you a light (that is) manifest”(al-Nisaa: 174)
“ . . So it is those who believe i n him, honour him, help him, and follow the light which is sent down with him, it is they who will prosper” (al-A’araaf: 157)
A propos, there are many similar verses in the Qur’an.
And His saying:
«till with him all excuses are cut off, and the proof is confirmed,»
is in agreement with the saying of the Most High:
“Apostles who gave good news as well as warning, that Mankind, after (the coming) of the apostles, should have no plea against God: for God is Exalted in Power, Wise.” (al-Nisa’a: 165)
“By the (winds) sent forth one after another (To man’s profit) “ (al-mursalat: 1)
“Then spread abroad a Message”(al-mursalat: 5)
“Whether of Justification or of warning “ (al-mursalat: 6)
“If (We had) not (sent thee to the Quraysh), – in case a calamity should seize them for (the deeds) that their hands have sent forth, they might say: our Lord! Why didn’t thou not send us an apostle? we should then have followed they signs and been amongst those who believe! “(al-Qasas: 47)
You ˹pagans˺ can no longer say, “Scriptures were only revealed to two groups before us and we were unaware of their teachings.”
Nor can you say, “If only the Scriptures had been revealed to us, we would have been better guided than they.” Now there has come to you from your Lord a clear proof1—a guide and mercy. Who then does more wrong than those who deny Allah’s revelations and turn away from them? We will reward those who turn away from Our revelations with a dreadful punishment for turning away. (Al-An’am : 156-157)
Through the Messenger the proof is established and the creation are rendered accountable to it, and with it all excuses are cut off. He who had received the messengers’ call and opposed it, cannot excuse himself before God on the Day of Judgement, for he has no real excuse to argue through it.
This foretoken is in agreement with the Chronicle of al-Bukhari, that it was said to Abdullah bin Amr to recount some of the traits of the Messenger of God (peace be upon him) mentioned in the Torah.
He said:
«He is described in the Torah with some of the descriptions in the Qur’an:
“O prophet! Truly we have sent thee as a witness, a bearer of Glad Tidings, and a warner “(al-Ahzaab: 45)
The Torah reads:
” and a refuge to the unlearned . You are My servant and My messenger, and I called you: al- Mutawakkil (the one who has a correct approach to the concept of dependence on God). You are neither rude nor crude, nor boisterous in the markets. He does not answer an offence with an offence; but answers an offence with a kind good deed. He forgives and pardons, and I shall not take him to Me till I redress through him the crooked community, opening through him blind eyes, deaf ears, and closed hearts when they say: there is no god but God. »
The reference to the Torah therein does not mean the Torah proper, the Book of Moses . The words: Torah, Bible, and psalms, are sometimes used to mean the individual Books in themselves, and sometimes they are used to refer to the gender (Holy Books). Thus, the mention of the Qur’an may interchangeably be used to express the psalms (Zabur) , the Torah for the Qur’an, and the Bible (Injeel) for the Qur’an. In the Authentic prophetic tradition it is mentioned that the prophet said:
«The Qur’an was a light burden to David. In the time between saddling his riding animal and then riding it, he read the Qur’an.»
The word «Qur’an» here refers to David’s book «the psalms» (al-Zabur). The same applies to His saying in the foretoken in the Torah:
«A prophet I shall raise for the people of Israel from among their brethren (cousins). I shall send down upon him a Torah similar to the Torah of Moses .»
The same usage of gender applies to the description of his (peace be upon him) community as in the former Books:
«Their Bibles are in their hearts .»
As for the posed question: « Tell me about the traits of the Messenger of God (peace be upon him ) in the Torah? » it either means: the Torah proper, or the gender of the former Books (Holy Books). In both estimates, Abdullah bin Amr answered him with what is mentioned in the Torah (as a gender) , an answer more comprehensive then the Torah proper. The description she mentioned are not in the Torah proper; but are in the Book of lsaiah as we quoted it. It was also translated in another version with some additions:
«My servant and My messenger with whom I am pleased . My Revelation is upon him to show My Justice to the nations, and enjoin on them my Commandments. He does not laugh and does not make his voice heard loudly in the markets. He opens the blind eyes , the deaf ears, and brings life to the closed hearts. What I give him I shall give nobody else. He thanks the Lord in a new laudation brought from the regions of the Earth , and the world and its inhabitants will rejoice and sing the praises o f the Lord with jubilation , on every elevated site, and glorify Him on every hill . He does not weaken, nor is he defeated . He does not incline to leisureliness, Mushaffah (a Hebrew word the meaning of which will be discussed later) is he, he does not humiliate the doers of good who are like a frail reed ; he rather strengthens the upright. He is the cornerstone to the humble, and the unquenchable light of the Lord. The sign of his authority (and prophethood) is in between his shoulders.»
The word «Mushaffah» with a vowel point «a»(«a» Fathah, in Arabic, «ID>: Dham-mah.) on the «sh» and a stressed «ff» on the rhythm of «Muka- rr-am» is a Hebrew word congruous with the name « Muhammad » in meaning and
pronunciation in an approximate grasp, like the congruency of the words : «Moaz Moaz» mentioned before , and even more congruent. The Arab cannot pronounce it correctly in their tongue with Hebrew inflection for it falls between the letter «Ha» (the 25th letter in the Arabic alphabet), and the vowel point «a» and «U». None of their fair scholars throws any shadow of doubt on its congruency with the name: «Muhammad» . Abu Muhammad bin Qotaibah said that «Mushaffah» is «Muhammad» without any shadow of doubt. He built his assertion on the fact that when the Jews praise God that
any : «shafhalaha» ( al-hamdu- lil- laah : in Arabic) . If « a l-ham, (praise: in Arabic) is : «shafh » in Hebrew , then «mushaffah » «Muhammad» without any shadow o f doubt. Some of the Jews scholars who converted to Islam have told me and told other people as well that: « Moaz Moaz» is «Muhammad, and it is pronounced with putting on the letter «hamzah» (the Arabic letter designating the glottal stop) , and the letter «meem» (the 24 th» letter of the Arabic alphabet) the inflection of the vowel point «a» on the letter «meera» with a subtle inflection on the vowel «U» . Muhammad bin Qotaibah proceeded to say:
«The scholars among them do not doubt that it is «Muhammad» even if we do not want to acknowledge it, as that said .»
If we overlook their attitude, who is the one to whom and whose community these traits apply other than he?! Who is the one who bears the sign of his authority (the Seal of the Prophethood) between his shoulders, a sign seen by many people and described looking like the eye of a partridge ( hajlah ) ?! what comes after denying the truthful facts other than falsehood, after ignoring insight and understanding other than sightlessness?!
Or ˹their deeds are˺ like the darkness in a deep sea, covered by waves upon waves,1 topped by ˹dark˺ clouds. Darkness upon darkness! If one stretches out their hand, they can hardly see it. And whoever Allah does not bless with light will have no light! (al-Nur: 40)
The traits of this prophet, hIs emergence , his envoyship, his characteristics, and the traits of his community are all mentioned in their Books; the Books which they recite in their churches and synagogues , and which they teach in their sittings . None of the scholars denies them, and only the ignorant are heedless to them. Even though they still say that he (the promised prophet) did not emerge yet, and that he shall emerge later on, and that when he does, this will follow him.
Ibn Ishaaq said:
«Muhammad bin abi Muhammad related to me an episode on the authorities of lkrimah, Sa’eed bin Jubayr, and ibn Abbas, that the Jews used to herald to the Aws and the Khazraj (two Arab tribes) the coming of the Messenger of God (peace be up on him) before his emergence. When God chose him from the Arabs, and sent him out,they belied him and reneged on what they used to herald and Dawood bin Salamh said:
O people of the Jewish community! fear God and embrace Islam. You used to herald to us the Glad Tidings in the coming of Muhammad (peace be upon him), and we were polytheists, and you used to tell us that he is sent a prophet, and describe him to us by his characteristics.
Salam bin Muslim a brother to the Jewish tribe Nudhayr- said:
“He did not bring us anything we know, and he is not the same one we used to talk to you about. “
Then God, Most High, Most Exalted, sent down:
“And when there comes to them a Book from God, confirming what is with them, – although from of old they had prayed for victory against those without Faith, – when there comes to them that which they (should) have recognized, they refused to believe in it but the curse of God is on those without Faith.” (al-Baqarah: 89)
Abu al-Aliah said:
«When the Jews s o ught refuge in Muhammad to bring them victory over the polytheists of the Arabs, they used to say:
O Mighty God! send out this prophet whose mention is written in our Book to make the polytheists suffer, and to kill them.»
When God sent out Muhammad (peace be upon h im ) , and they realized he is from the other people (non-Jewish tribe), they belied him out of envy from the Arabs although they knew that he is the Messenger of God (peace be upon him) . Hence, God Most High, sent down the following verses:
“And when there comes to them a Book from God, confirming what is with them,- although from of old they had prayed for victory against those without Faith, -when there comes to them that which they (should) have recognized, they refused to believe in it but the curse of God is on those without Faith, (al-Baqarah: 89)
lbn Ishaq said:
«Asim bin Amr bin Qitadah al-Ansari recounted to me an episode related to him by some men from his tribe that they said:
What invited us to embrace Islam apart from the mercy of God and His guidance was what we used to hear from some men of the Jewish community. We were a polytheist people worshipping idols and they were people of a Book having knowledge we did not have. There were still rivalries between us. If we took them in, in someone what they disliked, they would say to us that a (new) era of a sent-co* prophet is near to come: we are going to follow him, and with him we shall kill you in the same way the people of Ad and Iram were killed. We used to hear from them a lot of that . When God sent out His Messenger (peace be upon him) , we responded to him till he called to believe in God. And we realised that they were threatening us with what we forestalled them with to follow him . We believed in him and they belied him, hence the following verses were sent down describing us and them:
“Although they used to pray for victory ˹by means of the Prophet˺ over the polytheists, when there came to them a Book from Allah which they recognized, confirming the Scripture they had ˹in their hands˺, they rejected it. So may Allah’s condemnation be upon the disbelievers. ”(al-Baqarah : 89)
23-As His saying in the Book of lsaiah :
«I praise My beloved and My son «Ahmad».
It is for this reason that his mention came across in the prophet of Isaiah more than the other prophecies. Isaiah proclaimed he mention and his characteristics and the traits of his community; He proclaimed them in his prophecy secretly and openly, knowing that dimensions of his authority and his standing before God. Isaiah said:
«We have heard from the outermost borders of the Earth that voice of Muhammad .»
This is an outright expression of his name (peace be upon him) Hence let the people of the Book show us a prophet whose name characteristics , attribute, comportment , and the traits of the community and their whereabouts , were earnestly declared by the other prophets other than the Messenger of God (peace be upon him)?!
24-As for the saying of Habakkuk:
«When the Lord comes from Yemen and the Most Holy comes for the splendor of Muhammad, the earth is filled with the praises, and his sight spreads like the light. He protects his land with glory, death marches in front of him, eagles accompany his armies. He marches across the earth and the ancient mountains tremble, the hills sink, the walls of Median totter, and he gains control of ancient glories.»
Then he said:
«Your scolding anger shakes the rivers , your voice thunders in the sea. When the horses are ridden and the boats of the righteous sail high, many nations will be defeated in front of you . The arrows quench their thirst by your order O Muhammad. When the mountains see you they tremble, the downpour of the torrent turns away from you, and the battle trained knights change and lift their hands up in awe and fear. The armies march in the company of your arrows, and the glitter of your lances dazzles the earth and it treads on the nations because you emerge for the salvation of your nation and the rescue of your ancestors’ heritage.»
He who nurses a desire to attribute this foretoken to other than Muhammad, he desires to cloak the sun durl.ng daylight and cover the seas : is it not time he did!?. He (Habakkuk) described him (the Prophet) in details that specified his person and that removes the ambiguity from the mind of the confused. He even declared his name twice and this is like the dawn breaking in front of those who got eyes to see . He mentioned the strength of his community and the trails of the defeated people dragging themselves in front of them , and the birds of prey scanning their tracks. This foretoken befits nobody other than Muhammad (peace be upon him) and applies to nobody else other than he, and was sent down to describe nobody else other than he. He who tries to fend it off him would be like someone trying to deflect the great rivers from their water courses and withhold them from reaching their effusion points and their destination. But how far away this is from the desires of the abolitionists and the rejectionists. God willed that His light be completed to the detest of the unbelievers. Who is the one whose praise and the praise of his people to God filled the earth in their prayers, sermons, and after prayers and thanks in both: the good and the bad times and all the time!?. They devoted themselves to God to the point that God called them
«hammadoon» the lauders of God, even before their emergence. Who is the one whose face seems to be the shine and the light in which the sun and the moon orbit!?.
The birds have got habits they can trust, witness to their Behaviour speaks out the fact, even if he did not say he is A messenger to the world the birds will follow him in trust Anywhere he goes.
Who is the one in front of whom deaths marched and the birds of prey accompanied his soldiers in expectation of what comes next to the slaughter of the unbelievers in God the One and Only, the Subduer!?:
They (the birds) flutter their wings hovering close to him, for their offering is the blood of the defeated unbelievers.
25-As for His saying: in the Book of Ezekiel where he threatens the Jews and describes to them the community of Muhammad (peace be upon him):
«The Lord is proclaiming them over you and raising for them a prophet, and sending down upon them a Book. He shall make them own your necks and they will conquer and humble you with the Truth . The men of bani Qidar will march ahead with groups of many people accompanied with the angels, riding white horses, and they will be armed. They shall defeat you and your lot will be the Fire.»
Who is the one whom God gave victory over the Jews till he conquered them, humbled them , defeated them, and God sent down upon him a Book!?. Who are banu Qidar other than bani Ishmael who went out with him and with them there were groups of many people!? Who i s the one upon whom and upon whose people the angels descended on white horses in the battles of Badr, al-Ahzaab, and Hunayn!? They saw them (the angels) with their own eyes fighting with them , to his right and to his left, till three hundred and thirteen men with two horses only defeated one thousand men wearing iron armour, and were considered to be some of the best horsemen among the Arabs. They ended up being either dead or captive, or running away in defeat.
26-As for the saying of Daniel and his clear mention of his name without using alternatives or insinuations; he said:
«Many nations are going to be defeated by you, and the arrows shall quench their thirst by your orders O Muhammad.»
When Belteshazzar (Nebuchadnezzar) asked Daniel the prophet to interpret for him a dream he saw but had forgotten it:
«Your Majesty! in your vision you saw a giant statue standing before you. Its head was made of gold, its arms made of silver, its abdomen and thighs of copper, its legs of iron, and its feet of fired clay. While you were marvelling at it, a rock broke loose and struck the statue. It crumbled and shattered and became like the dust. The wind blew it away leaving not a trace. Then the stone was transformed into a great human being that covered the whole earth. This was your dream, your Majesty. Belteshazzar said:
You spoke the truth; but what does it mean?
He said:
You are the head that you saw made of gold . After you, your son shall rule, that is what you saw made of silver, and he is not going to be as great as you are . After him there will be another kingdom, not as great as his, and it will look like copper. After it there will be another kingdom as strong as iron. As for the feet that you saw made of fired clay, they stand for a weak kingdom to follow. As for the great stone you saw that struck the statue and shattered it, it stands for a prophet that the Lord of the Heavens and the Earth shall raise with a mighty canonical law through of which he will conquer all the kings and the nations of the earth till it becomes filled of him and his community, and the dominion of this prophet will last till the end of time. This is the meaning of your vision, your Majesty. »
It is well known that this applies to Muhammad bin Abdullah like a lock and a key. It does not apply to the Messiah, nor to any other prophet. It was he who was sent out with a mighty law (sharia), and he conquered all the kings and the nations of the earth till the earth was filled with him and his people. His dominion is lasting till the end of time, and no one is able to remove it with the removal of the Jewish dominion from the earth . He wiped off the dominion of the Nazarenes from the heart and from the middle of the earth , and it ended up on some peripheries . He wiped off the dominion of the
Magians, and that of the idolaters and the Sabians.
27-Daniel also said :
«I asked the Lord and beseech Him to show me where the people of Israel are heading to, and whether He will forgive them, restore their dominion to them, and raise prophets from among them, or give this to another people. The angel appeared to me in the shape of a handsome youth and said : peace be upon you O Daniel. God says : (The people of lsrael have angered Me, disobeyed Me, and worshipped other gods before Me.) They turned away from knowledge to ignorance, from truthfulness to falsehood. I set Belteshazzar on them. He killed their men, led their off-springs to captivity, ruined their synagogues, and burnt their books. The same will be inflicted on them after him. I am not pleased with them and I am not going to ignore their blunders. They will stay under My wrath till I send out My Messiah, the son of the Virgin Mary. Thereupon, I
shall seal upon them My wrath and damnation. They will stay damned, wrapped in humility and misery till I send out the prophet of beni Ishmael that Hagar foretokened . I sent My angel to her, he brought her the Glad Tidings . I shall send My revelation to this prophet, teach him the names , grace him with the fear of God. I shall make piety his watchword, fear of God his conscience, truthfulness his saying, and forthrightness his law. I shall bestow a special honour on him: a Book confirming the Books before him and quoting some of their contents. I shall bring him to Me on a night journey , and elevate him from one firmament to another till he reaches the highest. I shall bring him close to Me, greet him and grant him salvation, reveal to him and elevate him, then return him to My servants with joy and beatitude safeguarding what he is entrusted with, truthful to what he is bid to do , preaching My Oneness with gentleness in his
sayings and through well-founded exhortation. He is neither blunt, nor harsh, nor boisterous in the markets . He is clement with those who trust him , merciful to those who believe in him, and stern with those who antagonise him. He calls his people to believe in My Oneness and to worship Me. He tell s them about what he saw of My Signs, but they belie him and hurt him).»
Then Daniel narrated the matter of the Messenger of God (peace be upon him) according to the angel, and how his matter will continue till the last day of his nation: the day this life is no more.
This foretoken is known to both the Jews and the Nazarenes. They read it and acknowledge it, but still say that the one t o whom it applies did not come up yet!
Abu al-Alia said that when the Muslims conquered Tastur, they found Daniel dead, and in his possession they found a book. Abu al-Alia said:
«I read this book. It contains an account about your traits, news, way of life, and the aspects of your speech .»
When drought hit the inhabitants of the region , they used to uncover the tomb and their land became irrigated. Hence , Abu Musa al-Ash’ ari wrote to Omar bin al-Khattab a propos. Omar’s reply was to dig thirteen tombs in the river and to entomb him in one of them at night lest the people become intrigued about him.
In mentioning the traits of the Messenger of God (peace be upon him) in the Torah- meaning the «Torah» more general than the Torah proper – Ka’b quoted:
«Ahmad, My chosen servant, is neither blunt nor harsh, nor loud in the markets . He does not pay out a misdeed with a misdeed , he pardons and forgives, his birth is in Ka-abah his exodus (Exodus = Hijrah: this is a reference to the emigration o f the prophet Muhammad from Makkah to Madina) is Tabah and his possession is in al-Shaam, his people are the lauders (of God): they praise God on every hill and glorify Him in all circumstances. They perform the rites of ablution before prayer, wrapping themselves around the waist. They are the shepherds of the sun, and their call for prayer resonates in the ambience of the sky. Their alignment in war· and their alignment in prayer are the same. Monks at night, lions at daylight, they have a reverberating sound like the droning of bees, and wherever the time for prayer comes, they pray, even in the street.»
28-Ibn abi Alzanad said:
«Abdulrahman bin al-Hareth narrated to me an account on the authority of Omar bin Hafs who was from the best of the people that he said:
My father and grand-father had a scroll passed through to them as a heirloom from the era before Islam . It contains the name of God and His truthful saying, and that the saying of the transgressors is at loss. It mentions a reference to a people that will come at the end of time. They wrap up themselves around the waist, clean their limbs with water and forge the seas toward their foes . They practise a prayer had it been in the people of Noah , they would not have perished in the mighty blast.»
29-Mentioning the story of the Arabs, Isaiah said:
« . . and they tread on the nations like treading on a threshing floor, and tribulation falls down upon the polytheists of the Arabs, and they are defeated before sharp and sheathless swords and tense bows due to the intensity of the fight.»
This is an account of what befell the idolaters through the Messenger of God (peace be upon him) and his Companions in the battles of Badr, Junayn, and others.
30-As for his saying in the Gospel of John; in the version of the Bible in the hand of the Nazarenes:
«Jesus said to the Pharisees : He who hated me hated the Lord, even though I did for them miracles nobody did before, they were not guilty. But from now on , they are contented with vanity, it is inevitable that the word which is in the law will be done because they hated me senselessly. When the Paraclete comes , the one the Lord will send to you, he will bear witness to me and to you too because you have been with me from the very beginning . This is my saying to you so that you do not complain when he comes.
The «Paraclete» in Romaean is «Munjamina» in Syriac and the «lauder» and «laud» in Hebrew, is as mentioned before.
Also, his saying in the Bible:
«The Messiah said to the Jews : and you say that during the days of your forefathers we did not help them in killing the prophets!
Complete the apportion of your forefathers, you serpents , a breed of snakes ! How could you be granted salvation from the torture of Hellfire!»
«And I will send you prophets and scholars, some of them you will kill, crucify, flog, and chase from one city to another so that the blood of the believers spilled on the earth concludes your culpability, from the blood of the righteous Abel to the blood of Zachriah bin Barkhia whom you killed at the altar. Everything I said will come to pass upon this nation. O Jerusalem! that kills the prophets and stones whoever is sent to you. I wanted to embrace your people like the hen embraces its chicks under its wings, and you hated that. I will leave your house and say that you are not going to see me now till the one called the «Blessed» comes. He will come in the Name of God.»
It is he who avenged the blood of the believers after the Messiah.
This is similar to his saying, in another location:
«It is better for you that I leave you so that the Paraclete comes, for he will not come if l do not leave.»
Also his saying:
«The son of man is leaving, and the Paraclete will come after him. »
And in another location :
«I am leaving you and the Paraclete will come to you.»
The «blessed» (or «lauded» Paraclete who came after the Messiah is Muhammad (peace be upon him) , as mentioned before.
31 -As for his saying in the Gospel of Matthew:
«When Yahya (John) bin Zacharia was imprisoned, he sent his disciples to the Messiah and ordered them to ask him:
Are you Ayl (a Hebrew word meaning God) or shall we expect someone else?
The Messiah said: The certain truth I tell you, no woman brought up anyone better than Yahya bin Zacharia . The Torah and the Books of the prophets followed each other reciting the prophethood and the Revelation till Yahya came . As for now, accept if you wish, for Ayl (God) will be coming soon. So let he who has got ears hear .»
This is a foretoken of the coming of God (praised be He-), and He is Ayl in Hebrew, and His coming is the coming of His Messenger, His Book (The Qur’an), and His religion (Islam), as it i s expressed metaphorically- in the Torah:
«God came from the Mount of Sinai» , a metaphorical reference to the coming of Moses.
Some of the worshippers of the Cross said that in the above mentioned quotation from the Bible – the Messiah was foretelling the coming of the prophet Elias. This measure of ignorance in the nation straying from the right path and the worshippers of the wood stick of the Cross carved by the hands of the Jews, cannot be denied:
Elias coming preceded the Messiah by many long periods .
As for His saying in the prophecy of Jeremiah:
«Before I created you, I ennobled you before I gave you form in the womb, and I set you and made you a Prophet to all the races.»
This is a foretoken from the mouth of Jeremiah about his successor. This would be either the Messiah or Muhammad (peace be upon both of them-) and nobody else. Muhammad is better suited for this foretoken because the Messiah was a prophet for the people of Israel as God Most High said:
“And (appoint him) an apostle to the Children of Israel “ (al-Imran: 49)
And the Nazarenes agree with this fact: the Messiah did not claim himself to be a prophet to all the races of the peoples of the earth. From the time of Moses to the time of the Messiah, the prophets were sent out each for his people . It is mentioned in the Bible that the Messiah said to his Disciples:
«Do not set foot toward all of the nations, but confine yourselves to the lying-down sheep of the progeny of Israel.»
As for Muhammad bin Abdullah, it is he whom God sent out to all the nations of the world, to all the progeny of Adam. This foretoken agrees with the saying of the Most Sublime:
“Say: O men! I am sent unto you all, as the Apostle of God” (A’araaf: 158)
And agrees with the saying of the Prophet (peace be upon him) «I am sent out to the black as well as the red .»
and with his saying (peace b e upon him):
«A prophet used to be sent out to his people, as for me, I am sent out to all the people.»
The Nazarenes acknowledged this foretoken . They did not deny it; but some of their leaders said that it is a foretoken about Mo* bin Imran, and Elias, and that they will be coming at the end of time. Such an assumption is one of the most outrageous falsehoods against Him for he who had already died cannot show up again until the time of Judgement.
32-In the Bible in their hands, the Messiah gave an example of a tree on earth. He described it:
«as a man who planted a vineyard and fenced around it, built a fruit presser, erected a palace, and entrusted it to helpers and went away. When the harvest time was due, he sent out his slave to the entrusted helpers.»
Then he gave a parable about the prophets , about himself, about the last entrusted prophet of the vineyard . Then he spoke clearly about his nation. He said:
«I say to you, the kingdom of God shall be taken away from you and shall be given to the obedient and working nation.»
Then , he gave a parable about the prophet of this nation ,and likened him to a rock . He said:
«He who falls on this rock will break up . And he upon whom falls down will be shattered.»
This is one of the attributes of Muhammad as opposed to the who antagonized him and fought against him. This attribute does apply to any prophet who succeeded the Messiah other than he.
33-The saying of Isaiah in his book:
«Let the rugged thirsty land revel, and the wilderness and the deserts rejoice because they are going to be given through the Ahmad beauty of Lebanon like the beauty of the villages.»
34 – By God! there is nothing after that ( after rejecting and misinterpreting this foretoken) other than haughtiness and rejecting of the Truth after it became clear .
In the book of Ezekiel in their hand God Most Exalted Most Revered, mentions the disobedience of the pe o ple of Israel, and likens them to a vine tree which:
«did not take long before it was uprooted discontentedly, thrown on the ground , and the simoom ( sand storms) burnt its fruits. Thereupon, it was replanted in the desert, in the neglected and thirsty land . Then, from its eminent branches, fire enkindled and devoured it till no single strong branch was left, nor a twig.»
This is a clear statement, not an allusion, about him (peace be upon him) , and about his country Makkah : thirsty and abandoned of prophethood before him since the time of lshmael.
35-In the book of Daniel, he called the Chaldeans «Liars» . He said:
«Their call will not spread out, and their offering will not be accepted, and the Lord swore by His arm that falsehood will not prevail, and the false assumption of any prevaricator will not last for more than thirty years.»
In the Torah, there is a passage somewhat similar to that, and this is a clear statement of the validity of the prophethood of Muhammad (peace be upon him ) because the number of h i s followers after his death is many times more than the number of his followers during his lifetime. This happening never occurred in any dominion before:
how could it ever be that he is an impostor fabricating stories about God and His prophets, corrupting the world, and subverting the call of the messengers!? . He who holds such ill thoughts about God is holding the most malevolent doubts against Him with calumniation to His Omniscience, Omnipotence, and Supreme Wisdom.
By Imam Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziah
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