Part 12 - Muhammad PBUH in the Bible (Part 1) : "Proof that Islam is the truth''
Assalamaleykum Arahmatullahi va Barakatu. Welcome back to the proof that Islam is the Truth. And we are talking about a fascinating subject of the witnessing of the people of the book. And today also we are going to be dealing with Muhammad Sallalahu Alleyhem Va Salam in the Bible. But let's continue where we left off last time in the last episode where we were taking about some stories of those people from the Jewish community who recognized the Prophethood of Muhammad, may Allah's peace & blessings be upon him. And we talked about Abdullah Ibn 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 the place called Speaker's Corner. Speaker's Corner is on the corner of Hide park in London. And there is a place there where you can stand up & you can speak about anything you like. Well I for ten years used to go down there & 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 was always very polite & 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 & even you have admitted to me that Muhammad is a Prophet, so why then do you not embrace Islam?" And 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 & 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 eyes, I have to say & he looked like he might have been tempted. And then he looked at me & 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 & by obeying him?" He looked at me & 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 are 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 & he said to me: "We know that Muhammad is a Prophet." And he quoted to me a passage from the Bible. And that's something I going to get to right now because want I want to mention & what I want to talk about is some of the verses in the Bible that really seem to show & illustrate that direction that we've been talking about. Because one of the things we are interested in is saying: ok, that is clear that there were Jews & Christians in the time of the Prophet Muhammad & 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 & it has been corrupted & distorted. And this is something that actually is quite agreed about even by some Christian scholars, may be we can call them secular Christian scholars, but they at least they stand from the Christian civilisation & some of them even do call themselves Christians. So if we accept that & 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 & very clearly point us in the direction that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah that has been foretold in that Scripture. So what we are going to do is we are going to go through a few of those statements in the Bible & lets see what you think about it.
Now first of all lets start with Abraham. We are starting with Abraham because Prophet Abraham may God's peace & blessings be upon him is a Prophet that is recognised by both Jews & Muslims & Christians. That’s why some people call him the father of the three Abrahamic faiths. The one Prophet that all Muslims, Jews & Christians have in common is this great Prophet of God Abraham. And Abraham is mentioned many-many times in the Quran & 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 & has become foolish? So the religion of Abraham & 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's, & the story is mentioned in the 12 chapter in Genesis in verses two to three 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 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 & bless the people who bless Abraham & that all the families of the Earth will be blessed through Abraham. First of all look at this great honour that God has bestowed upon his friend, Abraham. And the Quran says that Abraham is the "halil" of Allah like the close friend the intimate of Allah Subhana Wa Ta Allah. And how Allah has honoured 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 & there was no one else & then obviously his wife Sara & his cousin Lot & Hajar & his sons. You know so it didn't end like that for a time, that's how it was. If Allah honoured Abraham & until this day he is a person who is honoured & 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 Wa Ta Allah bestowed honour & dignity upon his followers.
Anyway lets go back to that verse in genesis, those couple of verses in genesis 12, two to three. "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 & honour does not mean merely in numbers, greatness & honour in the criterion of God means a nation of people who obey God & follow God's commandment. This is what makes someone great with God. This is why Abraham is so honoured because he was so obedient to the Creator. And this is why Allah honoured him & 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 respect to their obedience to God & their following the commands of God. It would be an illusion to think that God is only talking only great in terms of numbers. Numbers are not important when it comes to God. What is important is that people obey Him & worship him & follow his commands. That is what is important. And it's interesting that He says, that God says: "I will make you a blessing & I will bless those that bless thee." So let me ask you my dear viewers: What are the people who bless Abraham? Well I don't know how much you know about the Muslims & the five daily prayers of the Muslims.
But one of the things that Muslims say in their prayer is "Allah humma sali ala Muhammad wa ala ali Muhammad, kama saleta ala Ibrahima wa ala ali Ibrahima innaka hamidun majeed" - "Oh Allah, bless Muhammad & the family of Muhammad as you blessed Abraham & the family of Abraham, verily You are the praised & the majestic." So it is here in the Muslim prayer five times every day that we are sending blessings upon Abraham & the family of Abraham. And God says that he will bless those who bless Abraham in Genesis 12 verses two to three. And I don't think you 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 "Allehi Salam" which means "may the peace & the blessings of God be upon him." So this is one of the statements in Genesis & we are 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 & blessings be upon him.
As mentioned earlier in this article, we are talking about Muhammad Sallalahu Alleyhem Va Salam, the Prophet Muhammad in the Bible, some prophecies, some foretellings, some statements in the Bible that we think could have been those statements that lead Jewish Rabbis & Christian Priests & scholars to recognize that Muhammad until today, that Muhammad is what he claimed to be - the last & final Messenger of Allah. And we were talking about Genesis, chapter 12 verses two to three where God was saying how He will make a great nation out of the progeny & the offspring of Abraham, He will make them a great nation, & bless them, & bless the people who bless Abraham & I was telling how the Muslims regularly send blessings upon Abraham. In fact no one I don't think sends as many blessing upon Abraham as the Muslims do. Now it's very important to understand something in the story of Abraham & that is the birth of his two sons. Abraham had two sons. One was Ishmael & the other was Isaac.
Now the very first son of Abraham was Ishmael, & Ishmael was born to his wife Hajar. And I emphasize his wife because in fact Abraham was married to Hajar as is confirmed in the Quran & the teachings of the Prophet, & also in the Bible. The Bible also tells us that Abraham did marry Hajar, so Ishmael is in fact the very first son of Abraham. And in Genesis 17 in the forth 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 bondwoman will I make a great nation, because he is thy seed." Lets do that again. Genesis 21 - 13. "the son of the bondwoman" meaning this is Hajar, this the bondwoman is Hajar. She was originally a slave to Sara, Sara gave Hajar to Abraham, to Mary as his wife & from that marriage came Ishmael & God says in Genesis 21 - 13 if indeed it is from God "of the son of the bondwoman will I make a great nation" And 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 verse 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 Bible calls the Arabs Ishmaelites, the Ishmaelites are the Arabs. So the Arabs are in fact cousins of the Beni Israel or the children of Israel - they are cousins & according to the Quranic tradition of course that we believe that Ishmael was a Prophet of God & Abraham & Ishmael together built the Kaaba as a place to worship the one God alone. So it seems that Jesus here is foretelling that the sceptre will pass from the children of Israel the stone that is rejected meaning Ishmael will 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 & it will be passed onto the descendants of Ishmael. Now at the time of Jesus it seems very clear, at least according to the Gospels anyway that the Jews very expecting three particular personalities & 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 are asking John: "Are you the Christ? Are you Elias, are you that Prophet?" So it's very clear that these three distinct individuals that they are asking about: The Messiah, Elias who was supposed to come again & that Prophet.
Now Jesus who was of course the Messiah, he says that John the Baptist was in fact Elias, he of course 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 & who is not Alias, he is a different personality is the Prophet referred to in the Prophesy of Deuteronomy chapter 18 verse 18: "And the Lord said to me, They have spoken that which they have spoken. I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them & he shall command them". So here God is telling Moses: "I'm going to raise up a Prophet who is like you, Moses, this Prophet will be like unto you & he, & "I will raise him up from amongst their brethren" & " I will put my words in his mouth; and he will speak to them what I shall command them" & the prophesy continues with a very stark & 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 is commanded & the people that do not follow him then God will requite them & 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 18. Who is that Prophet? Who is that Prophet that had been prophesied in the 18-18? Let's ask a question. It says "from amongst their brethren". Who are the brethren of Beni Israel? We get a clue to this in Genesis, chapter 16 verse 12, & also Genesis 25 verse 18, 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 & "he shall speak in my name & whatever he says he does what he is commanded". Let's just read a very interesting extract from a Collins Dictionary of the Bible. And it says here, & this is a very nice interesting book "What the Bible says about Muhammad". You can see it on internet & you can get it from many different places. And lets read what it says here. "As a statesman and lawgiver Moses is the creator of the Jewish people. He found a loose conglomeration of Semitic peoples, none of whom had been anything but a slave, and whose ideas 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 be remotely compared to Moses is Muhammad. From the brethren of the Israelites God is going to raise up a Prophet. Every time the Quran starts with a new chapter it begins "Bismillyahi Rahmani Raheem". 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 desire. It is nothing except a revelation that is revealed. When the Prophet spoke about Allah, when he spoke about God, he didn't not speak from his mind, he didn't invent things for himself, he spoke what God had commanded him, just as it had been prophesised in Deuteronomy 18-18.
Certainly Jesus is not like Moses. Jesus was born miraculously without a father. Muhammad & Moses both had natural fathers. Jesus was cared for by his mother. Both Moses & Muhammad were orphans from the young age. Jesus was actually a follower of the Mosaic law, whereas Moses brought a new law. And also Muhammad Sallalahu Alleyhem Va Salam may God's peace & blessings be upon his, both of these Prophets all of these Prophets him, they also, he also brought a new law. Moses was expelled, Muhammad was expelled. Moses was both a leader of his people & a one who was receiving revelation - a Prophet. Similarly Muhammad was also a leader of his people & also a Prophet.
And so we, I'm just giving a few examples, but when we compare Moses & Muhammad we can see that both these Prophets are so similar. Who else fits that description? From the brethren, from the Ishmaelites, 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 His creation & you should submit yourselves to God's divinely revealed law. This is what Moses taught, this is what Muhammad taught & 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 Assalamaleykum Arahmatullahi va Barakatu, may the peace & blessings of Allah be upon all of you & may he guide all of us closer to the Truth.
Years ago I used to spend every Sunday afternoon in the place called Speaker's Corner. Speaker's Corner is on the corner of Hide park in London. And there is a place there where you can stand up & you can speak about anything you like. Well I for ten years used to go down there & 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 was always very polite & 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 & even you have admitted to me that Muhammad is a Prophet, so why then do you not embrace Islam?" And 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 & 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 eyes, I have to say & he looked like he might have been tempted. And then he looked at me & 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 & by obeying him?" He looked at me & 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 are 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 & he said to me: "We know that Muhammad is a Prophet." And he quoted to me a passage from the Bible. And that's something I going to get to right now because want I want to mention & what I want to talk about is some of the verses in the Bible that really seem to show & illustrate that direction that we've been talking about. Because one of the things we are interested in is saying: ok, that is clear that there were Jews & Christians in the time of the Prophet Muhammad & 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 & it has been corrupted & distorted. And this is something that actually is quite agreed about even by some Christian scholars, may be we can call them secular Christian scholars, but they at least they stand from the Christian civilisation & some of them even do call themselves Christians. So if we accept that & 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 & very clearly point us in the direction that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah that has been foretold in that Scripture. So what we are going to do is we are going to go through a few of those statements in the Bible & lets see what you think about it.
Now first of all lets start with Abraham. We are starting with Abraham because Prophet Abraham may God's peace & blessings be upon him is a Prophet that is recognised by both Jews & Muslims & Christians. That’s why some people call him the father of the three Abrahamic faiths. The one Prophet that all Muslims, Jews & Christians have in common is this great Prophet of God Abraham. And Abraham is mentioned many-many times in the Quran & 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 & has become foolish? So the religion of Abraham & 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's, & the story is mentioned in the 12 chapter in Genesis in verses two to three 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 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 & bless the people who bless Abraham & that all the families of the Earth will be blessed through Abraham. First of all look at this great honour that God has bestowed upon his friend, Abraham. And the Quran says that Abraham is the "halil" of Allah like the close friend the intimate of Allah Subhana Wa Ta Allah. And how Allah has honoured 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 & there was no one else & then obviously his wife Sara & his cousin Lot & Hajar & his sons. You know so it didn't end like that for a time, that's how it was. If Allah honoured Abraham & until this day he is a person who is honoured & 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 Wa Ta Allah bestowed honour & dignity upon his followers.
Anyway lets go back to that verse in genesis, those couple of verses in genesis 12, two to three. "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 & honour does not mean merely in numbers, greatness & honour in the criterion of God means a nation of people who obey God & follow God's commandment. This is what makes someone great with God. This is why Abraham is so honoured because he was so obedient to the Creator. And this is why Allah honoured him & 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 respect to their obedience to God & their following the commands of God. It would be an illusion to think that God is only talking only great in terms of numbers. Numbers are not important when it comes to God. What is important is that people obey Him & worship him & follow his commands. That is what is important. And it's interesting that He says, that God says: "I will make you a blessing & I will bless those that bless thee." So let me ask you my dear viewers: What are the people who bless Abraham? Well I don't know how much you know about the Muslims & the five daily prayers of the Muslims.
But one of the things that Muslims say in their prayer is "Allah humma sali ala Muhammad wa ala ali Muhammad, kama saleta ala Ibrahima wa ala ali Ibrahima innaka hamidun majeed" - "Oh Allah, bless Muhammad & the family of Muhammad as you blessed Abraham & the family of Abraham, verily You are the praised & the majestic." So it is here in the Muslim prayer five times every day that we are sending blessings upon Abraham & the family of Abraham. And God says that he will bless those who bless Abraham in Genesis 12 verses two to three. And I don't think you 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 "Allehi Salam" which means "may the peace & the blessings of God be upon him." So this is one of the statements in Genesis & we are 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 & blessings be upon him.
As mentioned earlier in this article, we are talking about Muhammad Sallalahu Alleyhem Va Salam, the Prophet Muhammad in the Bible, some prophecies, some foretellings, some statements in the Bible that we think could have been those statements that lead Jewish Rabbis & Christian Priests & scholars to recognize that Muhammad until today, that Muhammad is what he claimed to be - the last & final Messenger of Allah. And we were talking about Genesis, chapter 12 verses two to three where God was saying how He will make a great nation out of the progeny & the offspring of Abraham, He will make them a great nation, & bless them, & bless the people who bless Abraham & I was telling how the Muslims regularly send blessings upon Abraham. In fact no one I don't think sends as many blessing upon Abraham as the Muslims do. Now it's very important to understand something in the story of Abraham & that is the birth of his two sons. Abraham had two sons. One was Ishmael & the other was Isaac.
Now the very first son of Abraham was Ishmael, & Ishmael was born to his wife Hajar. And I emphasize his wife because in fact Abraham was married to Hajar as is confirmed in the Quran & the teachings of the Prophet, & also in the Bible. The Bible also tells us that Abraham did marry Hajar, so Ishmael is in fact the very first son of Abraham. And in Genesis 17 in the forth 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 bondwoman will I make a great nation, because he is thy seed." Lets do that again. Genesis 21 - 13. "the son of the bondwoman" meaning this is Hajar, this the bondwoman is Hajar. She was originally a slave to Sara, Sara gave Hajar to Abraham, to Mary as his wife & from that marriage came Ishmael & God says in Genesis 21 - 13 if indeed it is from God "of the son of the bondwoman will I make a great nation" And 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 verse 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 Bible calls the Arabs Ishmaelites, the Ishmaelites are the Arabs. So the Arabs are in fact cousins of the Beni Israel or the children of Israel - they are cousins & according to the Quranic tradition of course that we believe that Ishmael was a Prophet of God & Abraham & Ishmael together built the Kaaba as a place to worship the one God alone. So it seems that Jesus here is foretelling that the sceptre will pass from the children of Israel the stone that is rejected meaning Ishmael will 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 & it will be passed onto the descendants of Ishmael. Now at the time of Jesus it seems very clear, at least according to the Gospels anyway that the Jews very expecting three particular personalities & 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 are asking John: "Are you the Christ? Are you Elias, are you that Prophet?" So it's very clear that these three distinct individuals that they are asking about: The Messiah, Elias who was supposed to come again & that Prophet.
Now Jesus who was of course the Messiah, he says that John the Baptist was in fact Elias, he of course 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 & who is not Alias, he is a different personality is the Prophet referred to in the Prophesy of Deuteronomy chapter 18 verse 18: "And the Lord said to me, They have spoken that which they have spoken. I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them & he shall command them". So here God is telling Moses: "I'm going to raise up a Prophet who is like you, Moses, this Prophet will be like unto you & he, & "I will raise him up from amongst their brethren" & " I will put my words in his mouth; and he will speak to them what I shall command them" & the prophesy continues with a very stark & 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 is commanded & the people that do not follow him then God will requite them & 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 18. Who is that Prophet? Who is that Prophet that had been prophesied in the 18-18? Let's ask a question. It says "from amongst their brethren". Who are the brethren of Beni Israel? We get a clue to this in Genesis, chapter 16 verse 12, & also Genesis 25 verse 18, 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 & "he shall speak in my name & whatever he says he does what he is commanded". Let's just read a very interesting extract from a Collins Dictionary of the Bible. And it says here, & this is a very nice interesting book "What the Bible says about Muhammad". You can see it on internet & you can get it from many different places. And lets read what it says here. "As a statesman and lawgiver Moses is the creator of the Jewish people. He found a loose conglomeration of Semitic peoples, none of whom had been anything but a slave, and whose ideas 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 be remotely compared to Moses is Muhammad. From the brethren of the Israelites God is going to raise up a Prophet. Every time the Quran starts with a new chapter it begins "Bismillyahi Rahmani Raheem". 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 desire. It is nothing except a revelation that is revealed. When the Prophet spoke about Allah, when he spoke about God, he didn't not speak from his mind, he didn't invent things for himself, he spoke what God had commanded him, just as it had been prophesised in Deuteronomy 18-18.
Certainly Jesus is not like Moses. Jesus was born miraculously without a father. Muhammad & Moses both had natural fathers. Jesus was cared for by his mother. Both Moses & Muhammad were orphans from the young age. Jesus was actually a follower of the Mosaic law, whereas Moses brought a new law. And also Muhammad Sallalahu Alleyhem Va Salam may God's peace & blessings be upon his, both of these Prophets all of these Prophets him, they also, he also brought a new law. Moses was expelled, Muhammad was expelled. Moses was both a leader of his people & a one who was receiving revelation - a Prophet. Similarly Muhammad was also a leader of his people & also a Prophet.
And so we, I'm just giving a few examples, but when we compare Moses & Muhammad we can see that both these Prophets are so similar. Who else fits that description? From the brethren, from the Ishmaelites, 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 His creation & you should submit yourselves to God's divinely revealed law. This is what Moses taught, this is what Muhammad taught & 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 Assalamaleykum Arahmatullahi va Barakatu, may the peace & blessings of Allah be upon all of you & may he guide all of us closer to the Truth.