Prophet Muhammad the last Messenger in the Bible
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What the Bible Says About Muhammad
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According to the Bible, God said to Moses, on whom be peace:
I will
raise up for them a prophet like you from among their
brothers; I will
put my words in his mouth, and he will tell them everything
I command
him. (The Holy Bible, New International Version, Deuteronomy
chapter
18, verse 18). The prophet described in the above verse must
have the
following three characteristics: 1. He will be like Moses.
2. He will
come from the brothers of the Israelites, i.e. the
Ishmaelites. 3. God
will put His words in the mouth of the prophet and he will
declare
what God commanded him. Let us see which prophet God was
speaking of.
1. The prophet like Moses Some people feel that this
prophecy refers
to the prophet Jesus, on whom be peace. But, although Jesus
(peace be
upon him and all of God's prophets and messengers) was truly
a prophet
of God, he is not the prophet spoken of here. He was born
miraculously, and finally God raised him up miraculously. On
the other
hand, Muhammad is more like Moses; both were born in a
natural way and
both died natural deaths.
2. From among the Ishmaelites Abraham had two sons, Ishmael
and Isaac
(Genesis, chapter 21). Ishmael became the grandfather of the
Arab
nation. And Isaac became the grandfather of Jewish nation.
The prophet
spoken of was to come not from among the Jews themselves,
but from
among their brothers, the Ishmaelites. Muhammad a descendant
of
Ishmael, is indeed that prophet. 3. God will put his words
in his
mouth 'Neither the content of the revelation, nor its form,
were of
Muhammad's devising. Both were given by the angel, and
Muhammad's task
was only to repeat what he heard.' (Word Religions from
Ancient
history to the Present, by Geoffrey Parrinder, p. 472). God
sent the
angel Gabriel to teach Muhammad the exact words that he
should repeat
to the people. The words are therefore not his own; they did
not come
from his own thoughts, but were put into his mouth by the
angel. These
are written down in the Qur'an word for word, exactly as
they came
from God. Now that we know that prophet we must listen to
him, for,
according to the Bible, God says: 'I will punish anyone who
refuses to
obey him' (Good News Bible, Deut. 18:19). Jesus (on whom be
peace) In
the Glorious Qur'an The Qur'an tells us many wonderful
things about
Jesus. As a result, believers in the Qur'an love Jesus,
honor him and
believe in him. In fact, no Muslim can be a Muslim unless he
or she
believes in Jesus, on whom be peace. The Qur'an says that
Jesus was
born of a virgin, that he spoke while he was still only a
baby, that
he healed the blind and the leper by God's leave and that he
raised
the dead by God's leave. What then is the significance of
these
miracles? First, the virgin birth. God demonstrates His
power to
create in every way. God created everyone we know from a man
and a
woman. But how about Adam, on whom be peace? God created him
from
neither a man nor a woman. And Eve from only a man, without
a woman.
And finally, to complete the picture, God created Jesus from
a woman,
without a man. What about the other miracles? These were to
show that
Jesus was not acting on his own behalf, but that he was
backed by God.
The Qur'an specifies that these miracles were performed by
God's
leave. This may be compared to the Book of Acts in the
Bible, chapter
2, verse 22, where it says that the miracles were done by
God to show
that he approved of Jesus. Also, note that Jesus himself is
recorded
in the Gospel of John to have said: 'I can do nothing of my
own
authority' (5:30). The miracles, therefore, were done not by
his own
authority, but by God's authority. What did Jesus teach? The
Qur'an
tells us that Jesus came to teach the same basic message
which was
taught by previous prophets from God - that we must shun
every false
god and worship only the One True God. Jesus taught that he
is the
servant and messenger of the One True God, the God of
Abraham. These
Qur'anic teachings can be compared with the Bible (Mark
10:18; Matthew
26:39; John 14:28, 17:3, and 20:17) where Jesus teaches that
the one
he worshipped is the only true God. See also Matthew 12:18;
Acts 3:13,
and 4:27 where we find that his disciples knew him as
'Servant of
God'. The Qur'an tells us that some of the Israelites
rejected Jesus,
and conspired to kill him, but God rescued Jesus and raised
him to
Himself. God will cause Jesus to descend again, at which
time Jesus
will confirm his true teachings and everyone will believe in
him as he
is and as the Qur'an teaches about him. Jesus is the
Messiah. He is a
word from God, and a spirit from Him. He is honored in this
world and
in the hereafter, and he is one of those brought nearest to
God. Jesus
was a man who spoke the truth which he heard from God. This
can be
compared with the Gospel According John where Jesus says to
the
Israelites: 'You are determined to kill me, a man who has
told you the
truth that I heard from God' (John 8:40).
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