But there’s no prophecy for Muhammed in the Bible (unless you take “Beware of false prophets”)
Hi
There are many prophecies in the Bible about advent of the truthful ProphetMessenger Muhammad. I had mentioned one or two in my post, perhaps you couldn’t read them. Never mind, I give one here from “The Introduction to the Study of Holy Quran” by Mirza Mahmood Ahmad s/o the PromisedMessiah 1835-1908:
THE HOLY PROPHET MENTIONED IN HABAKKUK
This advent was also prophesied by Habakkuk (3 : 3-7)
six hundred and twenty-six years before Jesus. Thus we have :
God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran.
Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full
of his praise. And his brightness was as the light ; he had
horns coming out of his hands : and there was the hiding of his
power. Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals
went forth at his feet. He stood, and measured the earth :
he beheld, and drove asunder the nations ; and the everlasting
mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow : his ways
are everlasting. I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction ; and
the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble.
Here we have a mention of Tema and of a Holy One from
Paran. From the prophecies of Moses and Habakkuk it is
evident that the advent of Jesus was not to mark the last stage
in the spiritual development of man. I t was to be followed by
the advent of another Prophet to mark the third manifestation
of divine glory. This prophet was to manifest both the Beauty
and the Majesty of God and bring a fiery Law into the world, not
merely a Message of forgiveness.
The Holy One to appear from the land of Tema and Mount
Paran is the Holy Prophet Muhammad, and his fiery Law is
the Quran which has the virtue of consuming to ashes the stuff
of which sins and satanic machinations are made. Moses
truly said that the Promised One, rising from Paran, would be
accompanied by ten thousand saints. As all the world knows,
it was the Holy Prophet of Islam who rose from Paran and
marched into Mecca with ten thousand followers. Could
Jesus be said to have fulfilled this great prophecy or David or
Moses ? Did any of them rise from Paran ? Did any of them
march to victory with ten thousand saintly followers ?
Jesus had only twelve disciples, one of whom sold him for a little
money. Another cursed him for fear of being maltreated.
Ten remained faithful but, according to the Gospel account,
even they dispersed when Jesus was put on the Cross. Had
they stood by their Master’s side, even then a following of ten
could not have equalled a following of ten thousand. And then
the Biblical prophecy says clearly that the ten thousand would
be with the Promised Prophet. But the Gospels tell us that the
ten disciples of Jesus who remained abandoned him when he
was put on the Cross.
According to Habakkuk, one sign of the Promised One was to
be the amount of praise showered upon him. Thus Habakkuk
(3 : 3) says, “and the earth was full of his praise.”
It does not seem to us a mere accident that the Holy Prophet
of Islam was named Muhammad (literally, the Praised One).
When his enemies denounced him, they were worried by the
contradiction entailed in denouncing the Praised One. So they
changed his name from Muhammad to Mudhammam, from the
Praised One to the denounced one. When the Prophet’s
Companions got exasperated at the denunciations and abuse
hurled at him he would say, “Hold your peace ; they abuse not
me but someone else called Mudhammam.” Only a man with
a name as beautiful as his personality and character could answer
to the description which Habakkuk had given of the Promised
One.
No less significant is the tradition of devotional verse
which has grown in Islam, and which has resulted in an impor-
tant branch of the poetry written by Muslims of all countries.
Habakkuk also says :
“Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went
forth at his feet” (3 : 5 ) .
This sign of the Promised One was also fulfilled in the
Prophet of Islam. True, the prophecy speaks of pestilence,
that is, a disease in epidemic form. But it is large scale
destruction and death which a pestilence brings which is here
meant. Because the enemies of the Holy Prophet suffered large
scale destruction and death in their encounters with him, he
may be said to have fulfilled even this part of the prophecy.
Again it says :
“He stood and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove
asunder the nations” (3 : 6).
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Thanks