❞ كتاب Muhammad Peace Be Upon Him In The Bible ❝ ⏤ ابن داوود الحنبلى

CONTENTS

Foreword ......................................................................7
Preface................................................ . ............... ... .13
Prophet’s(pbuh) Tree...........................................................16
Short biography of PROF. AbduI-Ahad Dáwúd .......................17
PART1
MUHAMMAD(pbuh) IN THE OLD TESTAMENT
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II.

Prefatory Remarks
ALLAH AND HIS ATTRIBUTES

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Chapter I "And the Ahmed(pbuh) of all nations will come 32
Chapter II: The question of birthright and the covenant 38
Chapter III: The mystery is the "Mispa" 46
Chapter IV Muhammad(pbuh) is the " Shiloh" 56
Chapter V Muhammad(pbuh) and Constantine the Great 64
Chapter VI: Muhammad(pbuh) is the son of Man 73
Chapter VII: King David(pbuh) calls him "My Lord" 83
Chapter VIII: The Lord and the apostle of the Covenant 93
Chapter IX: Genuine Prophets Preach Only Islam 101
Chapter X: Islam is the Kingdom of God on earth 111

PART 2
MUHAMMAD(pbuh) IN THE NEW TESTAMENT
Chapter I: Islam and Ahmadiyat announced by Angels 123
Chapter II: "Eudokia" means Ahmadiyah" 133
Chapter III: John(pbuh) the Baptist announces a powerful

prophet

142
Chapter IV: The Prophet fortold by the Baptist was

certainly Muhammad(pbuh)

151
Chapter V: The baptism of John (pbuh)and Jesus(pbuh) only
a type of the sibghatu Allah" or the
baptism with the holy spirit and fire

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Chapter VI The " Sibghatu Allah " or the baptism with

the Holy Spirit and fire

170
Chapter VII: The "Paraclete" is not the Holy Spirit 179
Chapter:VIII "Periqlytos" means "Ahmad"(pbuh) 189
Chapter IX: " The Son of Man ," Who is He? 199
Chapter X: By the Apocalyptical "Son of Man, "

Muhammad(pbuh) is Intended

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Chapter XI:
:

The Son of Man according to the Jewis
Apocalypses
Som Impornt words
Editor’s references

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The present barren period of classical scholarship, together
with the increasing paucity of our knowledge of ancient languages,
has crippled modern taste in its efforts to appreciate any such attempts
as I intend to make in that direction. The following pages have
produced a series of most able articles from the pen of the Rev .
Professor ‘Abdu’ I-Ahad Dāwūd, but I wonder if there are many, even
among the hierarchy of the Christian Church, who could follow the
erudite exposition of the learned Professor. All the more do I wonder
when he seeks to carry his readers into a labyrinth of languages, dead
and done with thousands of years ago. What about Aramaic, when
very few even among the Clergy are able to understand the Vulgate
and the original Greek version of the New Testament? More
especially when our researches are based simply upon Greek and
Latin etymology! Whatever may be the value of such dissertations in
the enemy’s eye we, nowadays, are absolutely incapable of
appreciating them from the angle of erudition; for the oracular
ambiguity attached to the prophetic utterances to which I allude makes
them elastic enough to cover any case. The “least” in the prophecy of
St. John the Baptist may not be the son of Mary(pbuh), though he was
looked upon as such contemptuously by his own tribe. The Holy
Carpenter came from humble parentage. He was hooted down,
mocked and discredited; he was belittled and made to appear the
“least” in the public estimation by the Scribes and Pharisees.The
excess of zeal displayed by his followers in the second and third
centuries A.D., which was ever prone to jump at anything in the form
of a prophecy in the Bible, would naturally induce them to believe that
their Lord was the person alluded to by the Baptist.
However, there is another difficulty in the way. How can a person
rely on the testimony of a book admittedly filled up with folk-lore?
The genuineness of the Bible has universally been questioned.
Without going into the question of its genuineness, we may at least
say that we cannot depend on its statements concerning Jesus(pbuh) and
his miracles. Some even go so far as to assert that his existence as an
historical person is questionable, and that on the authority of the
Gospels it would be dangerous to arrive at any apparently safe

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conclusion in this matter. A Christian of the Fundamentalist type
cannot well say anything against my statement of the case. If “stray
sentence” and detached words in the Old Testament can be singled out
by synoptic writers as applicable to Jesus(pbuh), the comments of the
learned writer of these erudite and absorbing articles must command
every respect and appreciation even from the Clergy. I write in the
same strain, but I have tried to base my arguments on portions of the
Bible which hardly allow of any linguistic dispute. I would not go to
Latin, Greek, or Aramaic, for that would be useless: I just give the
following quotation in the very words of the Revised Version as
published by the British and Foreign Bible Society.
We read the following words in the Book of Deuteronomy, chapter xviii. verse 18: “I will raise
them up a prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee; and I will put my words in his
mouth. If these words do not apply to Muhammad(pbuh), they still remain
unfulfilled. Jesus(pbuh) himself never claimed to be the Prophet alluded
to. Even his disciples were of the same opinion: they looked to the
second coming of Jesus(pbuh) for the fulfilment of the prophecy.1 So far
it is undisputed that the first coming of Jesus was not the advent of the
“prophet like unto thee,” and his second advent can hardly fulfil the
words. Jesus(pbuh), as is believed by his Church, will appear as a Judge
and not as a law-giver; but the promised one has to come with a “fiery
law” in “his right hand.”
In ascertaining the personality of the promised prophet the other
prophecy of Moses(pbuh) is, however, very helpful where it speaks of the
shining forth of God from Paran, the Mecca mountain. The words in the
Book of Deuteronomy, chapter xxxiii. verse 2, run as follows: “The Lord
came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran,
and he came with ten thousands of saints; from his right hand went a fiery law for them.”
In these words the Lord has been compared with the sun. He comes
from Sinai, he rises from Seir, but he shines in his full glory from
Paran, where he had to appear with ten thousands of saints with a fiery
law in his right hand. None of the Israelites, including Jesus(pbuh), had
anything to do with Paran. Hagar, with her son Ishmael(pbuh),
1. “21 whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things,
which God hath spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets(pbuh) since the world
began. 22 For Moses(pbuh) truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord
your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all
things whatsoever he shall say unto you”. (Acts iii.).

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wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba, who afterwards dwelt in
the wilderness of Paran (Gen. xxi. 21). He married an Egyptian
woman, and through his firstborn, Kedar, gave descent to the
Arabs who from that time till now are the dwellers of the
wilderness of Paran. And if Muhammad(pbuh) admittedly on all
hands traces his descent to Ishmael(pbuh) through Kedar and he

appeared as a prophet(pbuh) in the wilderness of Paran and re-
entered Mecca with ten thousand saints and gave a fiery law to his

people, is not the prophecy above-mentioned fulfilled to its very
letter? The words of the prophecy in Habakkuk are especially
noteworthy. His (the Holy One from Paran) glory covered the
heavens and the earth was full of his praise. The word “praise” is
very significant, as the very name Muhammad(pbuh) literally means
“the praised one.” Besides the Arabs, the inhabitants of the
wilderness of Paran had also been promised a Revelation: “Let
the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice, the villages
that Kedar doth inhabit: let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let
them shout from the top of the mountains. Let them give glory
unto the Lord, and declare his praise in the islands. The Lord
shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall stir up jealousy like a man
of war, he shall cry, yea, roar; he shall prevail against his
enemies” (Isa. xlii. II.).
In connection with it there are two other prophecies worthy of
note where references have been made to Kedar. The one runs thus in
chapter Ix. of Isaiah: “Arise, shine for thy light is come, and the glory of the
Lord is risen upon thee ... The multitude of camels shall cover thee, the
dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come ...
All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together unto thee, the rams of
Nebaioth shall minister unto thee: they shall come up with acceptance on
mine altar, and I will glorify the house of my glory” (1-7). The other
prophecy is again is Isaiah xxi.: “The burden upon Arabia. In the forest
in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye travelling companies of Dedanim. The
inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him that was thirsty,
they prevented with their bread him that fled. For they fled from the
swords ..... and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.
For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Within a year, according to the
years of an hireling, and all the glory of kedar shall fail: And the residue
of the number of archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall
be diminished” (13-17). Read these prophecies in Isaiah in the light of

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one in Deuteronomy which speaks of the shining forth of God from
Paran. If Ishmael(pbuh) inhabited the wilderness of Paran, where he gave
birth to Kedar, who is the ancestor of the Arabs; and if the sons of Kedar had to
receive revelation from God; if the flocks of Kedar had to come up
with acceptance to a Divine altar to cover the earth for some
centuries, and then that very land had to receive light from God; and if
all the glory of Kedar had to fail and the number of archers, the
mighty men of the children of Kedar, had to diminish within a year
after the one fled from the swords and from the bent bows - the Holy
One from Paran (Hab. iii 3) is no one else than Muhammad(pbuh).
Muhammad(pbuh) is the holy offspring of Ishmael(pbuh) through Kedar,
who settled in the wilderness of Paran. Muhammad(pbuh) is the only
Prophet through whom the Arabs received revelation at the time when
the darkness had covered the earth. Through him God shone from
Paran, and Mecca is the only place where the house of God is glorified
and the flocks of Kedar come up with acceptance on its altar.
Muhammad(pbuh) was persecuted by his people and had to leave Mecca.
He was thirsty and fled from the drawn sword and the bent bow, and
within a year after his flight the descendants of Kedar meet him at
Badr, the place of the first battle between the Meccans and the
Prophet, the children of Kedar and their number of archers diminish
and all the glory of Kedar fails. If the Holy Prophets is not to be
accepted as the fulfilment of all these prophecies they will still remain
unfulfilled. “The house of my glory” referred to in Isaiah Ix. is the house
of God at Mecca and not the Church of Christ as thought by Christian
commentators. The flocks of Kedar, as mentioned in verse 7, have never
come to the Church of Christ; and it is a fact that the villages of Kedar
and their inhabitants are the only people in the whole world who have
remained impenetrable to any influence of the Church of Christ.
Again, the mention of 10,000 saints in Deuteronomy xxxiii. is very
significant. He (God) shined forth from Paran, and he came with
10,000 of saints. Read the whole history of the wilderness of Paran
and you will find no other event but when Mecca was conquered by

the Prophet. He comes with 10,000 followers from Medina and re-
enters “the house of my glory.” He gives the fiery law to the world,

which reduced to ashes all other laws. The Comforter -the Spirit of
Truth- spoken of by Jesus(pbuh) was no other than Muhammad(pbuh)
himself. It cannot be taken as the Holy Ghost, as the Church theology
says. “It is expedient for you that I go away,” says Jesus(pbuh), “for if I

go not away the Comforter will not come unto you, but if I depart I
will send him unto you.” The words clearly show that the Comforter
had to come after the departure of Jesus(pbuh), and was not with him
when he uttered these words. Are we to presume that Jesus(pbuh) was
devoid of the Holy Ghost if his coming was conditional on the going
of Jesus(pbuh): besides, the way in which Jesus(pbuh) describes him makes
him a human being, not a ghost. “He shall not speak of himself, but
whatsoever he shall hear that he shall speak.” Should we presume that
the Holy Ghost and God are two distinct entities and that the Holy
Ghost speaks of himself and also what he hears from God? The words
of Jesus(pbuh) clearly refer to some messenger from God. He calls him
the Spirit of Truth, and so the Qur-án speaks of Muhammad(pbuh),
“Nay, he has come with the Truth and verified the apostles.”
1 “X. X.”

 in Three versions has produced a series of most able articles from the pen of Professor
David Benjamin Keldani who said: I propose through this article and the ones which will follow to show that the doctrine of Islam concerning the Deity and the Last Great Messenger of Allah is perfectly true and conforms to the teachings of the Bible.