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welcome back to the proof that Islam is
the truth and we're talking about the
fascinating subject of the witnessing of
the people of the book and today also
we're going to be dealing with Muhammad
sallai wasallam in the Bible but let's
continue where we left off last time in
the last episode where we were talking
about some stories of those people from
the Jewish Community who recognized the
prophethood of Muhammad May Allah's
peace and blessings be upon him and we
talked about Abdullah IB Salam he was
very famous I will tell you a story from
my own personal experience years ago I
used to spend every Sunday afternoon in
a a place called speaker Corner Speakers
Corner is on the corner of Hyde Park in
London and there is a place there where
you can stand up and you can speak about
anything you like well I for 10 years
used to go down there and speak about
the religion of Islam and in my years
down there I got to
know a Jewish rabbi he was a very nice
man he used to listen to me and he was
always very polite and talked about
Islam in a very nice way
and one day during one of our
conversations after some years I thought
that it was about time I should invite
him to Islam so I said to him you know
my friend we have been talking now for
many years and even you have admitted to
me that Muhammad is a prophet so why
then do you not Embrace Islam he said to
me we Jews we never change our religion
I said but half of the rabbis of Medina
became Muslim he said that is true but
still we Jews never change our religion
I thought what can I say to him so I
said to him you know my friend wouldn't
you like to go to paradise and to be
married to one of the beautiful wide
eyed virgins of paradise now he was a
bit of an old man but when I said that
he got a bit of a twinkle in his eye I
have to say and he looked like he might
have been
tempted and then he looked at me and he
said no he said all we Jews want to do
is conquer I said to him even if that's
what you want is it not true that the
victory is only from Allah and by
obeying him he looked at me and said
listen to me my friend God sent to us a
prophet Moses and we didn't even listen
to him do you think we're going to
listen to another Prophet after him from
another tribe from another people when
he said that I had nothing left to
say he knew that Muhammad was a prophet
in fact another Rabbi also came up to me
and he said to me we know Muhammad is a
prophet and he quoted to me a passage
from the
Bible and that's something I'm going to
get back to right now because what I
want to mention and what I want to talk
about is some of the verses in the Bible
that really seem to show and illustrate
that direction that we've been talking
about out because one of the things
we're interested is in seeing okay that
it's clear that there were Jews and
Christians in the time of the Prophet
Muhammad and until today and I have to
say including myself that have been
influenced by their reading of the Bible
to accept Muhammad as a prophet now a
person may say how can that be if we can
accept that the Bible is not the actual
word of God if we accept a more accurate
understanding of the Bible that it
really is a mixture of things it's a
mixture of History it's a mixture of
some things that are clearly the words
of God and it has been corrupted and
distorted and and this is something that
actually is quite agreed about even by
some Christian Scholars maybe we could
call them secular Christian Scholars but
they at least stem from the Christian
civilization and some of them even do
call themselves Christians so if we
accept that and we don't say that the
Bible is the word of God
absolutely then we do have room for
looking at some of the statements in the
Bible that really do seem to indicate
and very clearly point us in the
direction that Muhammad is a messenger
of Allah that has been foretold in that
scripture so what we're going to do is
we're going to go through a few of those
statements in the Bible and let's see
what we think about it now first of all
let's start with Abraham we're starting
with Abraham because prophet Abraham may
God's peace and blessings be upon Him is
a prophet that is recognized by both
Jews and Muslims and Christians that's
why some people call him the father of
the three abrahamic
faiths the one Prophet that
all Muslims Jews and Christians have in
common is this great prophet of God
Abraham and Abraham is mentioned many
many times in the Quran and his religion
is mentioned as the True Religion and
the Quran says who turns away from the
religion of Abraham except someone who
is foolish and has become foolish so the
religion of Abraham and Abraham himself
is pointed to as a very great example of
how a person should live their life in
obedience to God now it's interesting
that in the Book of Genesis where
something of the Abraham of the story of
Abraham is mentioned in the 12th chapter
in Genesis in verses 2 to 3 it mentions
and I will make thee a great nation and
I will bless thee and make your name
great and thou shalt be a blessing and I
will bless them that bless thee and in
thee shall all the families of the earth
be
blessed it's a very interesting passage
now this is before Abraham has any
children God is promising that he is
going to bless Abraham and Bless the
people who bless Abraham and that all
the families of the earth will be
blessed through
Abraham first of all look at this great
honor that God had bestowed upon his
friend Abraham and the Quran says that
Abraham is the of Allah like the close
friend the intimate of Allah subhah wa
taala and how Allah has honored Abraham
even though it is said that he was the
only person on Earth who truly believed
in God when he was alive he was the only
Muslim the only person who truly
believed in Allah for a time and even
though he was all alone and there was no
one else and then obviously his wife
Sarah and his cousin lot and haer and
his sons and you know so it didn't end
like that for a time that's how it was
yet Allah honored a Abraham and until
this day he is a person who is honored
and remembered I think if we were to
mention any actor from Rome or Greece or
any singer from those times you would
not be able to mention even one name of
the Roman Greek or Babylonian actors or
singers but if we mention the name of
Abraham his name is known almost
everywhere look how Allah subhana tala
bestowed honor and dignity upon his
followers anyway let's go back to that
verse in Genesis those couple of verses
in Genesis 12
2-3 uh I will make thee a great nation
first of all when God is talking in the
Bible or when God is talking at all
about
greatness as I have already indicated
greatness and honor does not mean merely
in numbers greatness and honor in the
Christ Criterion of God means a nation
of people who obey God and follow God's
Commandments this is what makes someone
great with God this is why Abraham is so
honored because he was so obedient to
the Creator and this is why Allah
honored him and elevated him until this
day so when God says to Abraham I will
make a great nation that means he will
make him that Nation great in resp to
their obedience to God and they're
following the commands of God it would
be an illusion to think that God is only
talking about great in terms of numbers
numbers are not important when it comes
to God what is important is that people
obey him and worship him and follow his
commands that is what is important and
it's interesting that he says God says I
will make you a blessing and I will
bless those that bless thee so let me
ask you my dear viewers
who are the people who bless
Abraham well I don't know how much you
know about the Muslims and the five
daily prayer of the Muslims but one of
the things that Muslims say in their
prayer is
oh Allah bless Muhammad and the family
of Muhammad as you blessed Abraham and
the family of Abraham verily you are the
praised and the Majestic so it is here
in the Muslim prayer five times every
day that we are sending blessings upon
Abraham and the family of Abraham and
God says that he will bless those who
bless Abraham in
Genesis
12: 2 to 3 and I don't think you'll find
any nation of people blessing Abraham
quite as much as the Muslims in fact
every time we hear Abraham's name or we
say Abraham's name we say Al which means
May the peace and the blessings of God
be upon
him so this is one of the statements in
Genesis and we're going to be going back
to some more statements in the Bible
that could lead us to understand how it
is prophesying the coming of the final
messenger Muhammad May Allah's peace and
blessings be upon him don't go away join
us after the break for more proof that
Islam is the
truth welcome back to the proof that
Islam is the truth and we're talking
about Muhammad sallallah alaihi wasallam
the Prophet Muhammad in the Bible some
prophecies some foretelling some
statements in the Bible that we think
could have been those statements that
led Jewish rabbis and Christian priests
and Scholars to recognize that Muhammad
until today that Muhammad is what he
claims to be the last and final
messenger of Allah and we were talking
about Genesis 12: 2 to3 where God was
saying he will make a great nation out
of the progeny and The Offspring of
Abraham you will make them into a great
nation and bless them and Bless the
people who bless Abraham and I was
telling how the Muslims regularly send
blessings upon Abraham in fact no one I
don't think sends as many blessings upon
Abraham as the Muslims do now it's very
important to understand something in the
story of Abraham and that is the birth
of his two sons Abraham had two sons one
was Ishmael and the other was Isaac now
the very first son of Abraham was
Ishmael and ishma was born to his wife
hajer and I emphasize his wife because
in fact Abraham was married to hajar as
is confirmed in the Quran and the
teachings of the prophet and also in the
Bible the Bible also tells us that
Abraham did marry hajah so Ishmael is in
fact the very first son of Abraham and
in Genesis 17 in the fourth verse it
says my Covenant is with thee and thou
shalt be a father of many nations and in
Genesis 21:13 God promises that of the
son of the Bond woman will I make a
great nation because he is thy
seed let's do that again Genesis 2113
the son of the Bond woman meaning this
is hajer the Bond woman is hajer she was
originally a slave to SAR SAR gave hajer
to Abraham to Mary as his wife and from
that marriage came Ishmael and God says
in Genesis
2113 if it indeed it is from God of the
son of the Bor women I will make a great
nation now if you remember we were
talking about what is a great nation in
God's terms it doesn't just mean numbers
it must mean a Pious Nation a nation of
people who believe in God because he is
thy seed and again in Genesis 21: 18
arise lift up the lad and hold him in
thine hand for I will make him a great
nation and it is known that the Arabs
are the descendants of Ishmael in fact
the the Bible calls the Arabs ishite the
ishmaelites are the Arabs so the Arabs
are in fact cousins of the Ben Israel or
the children of Israel they are cousins
and according to the quranic tradition
of course that we believe that Ishmael
was a prophet of God and Abraham and
Ishmael together built the ca as a place
to worship the one God alone so it seems
that Jesus here is foretelling that the
scepter will pass from the children of
Israel the stone that is rejected
meaning Ishmael would in fact become the
Cornerstone the very Corner the very
thing that holds monotheism together
since the Jews have rejected him as the
Messiah
therefore the Covenant will end with
them and it will be passed onto the
descendants of Ishmael now at the time
of Jesus it seems very clear at least
ACC according to the gospels anyway that
the Jews were expecting three particular
personalities and they show this in
their questioning of John the Baptist
and this is mentioned in the Gospel of
John in the first chapter in the 21st
verse it's they ask are you the Christ
they're asking John are you the Christ
are you Elias are you that Prophet so
it's very clear that there's three
distinct individuals that they're asking
about the Messiah Elias who is supposed
to come again and that Prophet now Jesus
who is of course the Messiah he says
that John the Baptist was in fact El
liias he of course is the Messiah that
only leaves that Prophet who is that
Prophet it means they were expecting a
particular prophet and it is very very
clear that they were talking about who
is not the Messiah and who is not Elias
he's a different personality is the
prophet referred to in the prophecy of
Deuteronomy chapter 18 verse 18 let's
read it and the Lord said to me they
have spoken that which they have spoke
and I will raise them up a prophet from
among their Brethren like unto thee and
I will put my words in his mouth and he
shall speak unto them and he shall
command them so here God is telling
Moses I am going to raise up a prophet
who is like you Moses this Prophet will
be like unto you and he and I will raise
him up from amongst their
Brethren and I will put my words in his
mouth and he will speak to them what I
should command them and the prophecy
continues with a very Stark and severe
warning and it shall come to pass that
whosoever does not hearken unto my words
which he shall speak in my name I will
take Vengeance on him so God is warning
severely that he is going to send a
prophet he will be like Moses he will
speak in God's name he will say what he
has commanded and the people who do not
follow him then God will requite them
and God will take Vengeance on those
people if they don't follow him this is
Deuteronomy 18 so this is very clearly
that Prophet this is the prophet that
they were expecting so the Messiah had
come Elias had come but there's one
Prophet still left to come
that Prophet the one prophesied in
Deuteronomy 1818 who is that Prophet who
is that Prophet that has been prophesied
in
1818 let's ask a question it says from
amongst their Brethren who are the
Brethren of the Beni Israel we get a
clue to this in Genesis chapter
16:12 and also Genesis
25:8 both of these reverses refer to the
Israelites as Brethren of the
ishmaelites so in the Bible itself the
ishmaelites are referred to as the
Brethren of the Israelites and the
Hebrew dictionary of the Bible it
defines Brethren as personification of a
group who were regarded as near Kinsmen
of the Israelites so it is very clear
that from amongst your brethren means
that God is going to raise a prophet who
will be like Moses from the ishmaelites
and he shall speak in my name and
whatever he says he does what he has
commanded let's just read a very
interesting extract from the Collins
Dictionary of the Bible and it says here
and this is a very nice interesting book
what the Bible says about Muhammad you
can see it on the internet and you can
get it from many different places and
let's read what it says here as a
Statesman and lawgiver Moses is the
creator of the Jewish people he found a
loose conglomeration of semetic peoples
none of who had ever been anything but a
slave and whose idea of religion were a
complete confusion he led them out and
he hammered them into a nation
with a law and a national pride and a
compelling sense of being chosen by a
particular God who was Supreme wait for
it the only man in history who can be
compared even remotely to him
is Muhammad there it is dictionary of
the Bible the only person who can
remotely be compared to Moses is
Muhammad from the Brethren of the
Israelite God is going to raise up a
prophet
every time the Quran starts a new
chapter it
begins and what does Deuteronomy 18:18
say he shall speak in my name the words
that I will say he will speak them the
Quran says the prophet Muhammad does not
speak from his own desires it is nothing
except a revelation that is revealed
when the prophet spoke about Allah when
he spoke about God he did not speak from
his mind he didn't invent things to
himself he spoke what God had commanded
him just as it had been prophesied in
Deuteronomy 1818 certainly Jesus is not
like Moses Jesus was born miraculously
without a father Muhammad and Moses both
had natural fathers
Jesus was cared for by his mother both
Moses and Muhammad were orphan from a
young age Jesus was actually a follower
of the Mosaic law whereas Moses b a new
law and also Muhammad sallallah alaihi
wasallam may God's peace and blessings
be upon his both of his prophets all of
his prophets they also he also bought a
new law Moses was expelled Muhammad was
expelled Moses was both a leader of his
people and a one who was receiving
Revelation a prophet similarly Muhammad
was also a leader of his people and also
a prophet and so we I'm just just giving
a few examples but when we compare Moses
and Muhammad we can see that both these
prophets are so similar who else fits
that description from the Brethren from
the Israelites like unto Moses and of
course both of them preach that there is
only one God you should only worship the
one God God is not like anything in this
creation and you should submit yourself
to God's divinely revealed law this is
what Moses taught this is what Muhammad
taught and as we believe of course this
is what Jesus taught here are some
amazing statements to show you indeed
that Muhammad is the one foretold in the
Bible so don't forget to join us for our
next episode of the proof that Islam is
the truth until
then May the peace and blessings of
Allah be upon all of you and may He
guide all of us closer to the truth
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