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Description:<\/strong> The Biblical evidence that Muhammad is not a false prophet.\u00a0 Part 1: The difficulties faced in discussing biblical prophecies, and accounts of some scholars who attested that Muhammad has been alluded\u00a0 to in the Bible. Preliminary Issues<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The Bible is the sacred scripture of Judaism and Christianity.\u00a0 The Christian Bible consists of the Old Testament and the New Testament, with the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox versions of the Old Testament being slightly larger because of their acceptance of certain books not accepted as scripture by Protestants.\u00a0 The Jewish Bible includes only the books known to Christians as the Old Testament.\u00a0 Furthermore, the arrangements of the Jewish and Christian canons differ considerably. Prophet Muhammad has been prophesized in both the Old Testament and the New Testament.<\/span> The Awaited Prophet<\/strong><\/span><\/span> Pre-Islam Jews and Christians of Arabia were awaiting a prophet. Before the appearance of Muhammad, Arabia was home to Jews, Christians, and pagan Arabs who, on occasion, went to war with each other.\u00a0 The Jews and Christians would say: \u201cThe time has come for the unlettered prophet to appear who will revive the religion of Abraham.\u00a0 We will join his ranks and wage fierce war against you.\u201d\u00a0 When Muhammad actually appeared, some of them believed in him, and some refused.\u00a0 This is why God revealed: The first witness was Buhaira, the Christian monk, who recognized Muhammad\u2019s prophethood when he was still young and told his uncle: The second witness was Waraqah bin Nawfal<\/strong>, a Christian scholar who died soon after a solitary meeting with Muhammad.\u00a0 Waraqah attested Muhammad was the Prophet of his time and received revelation exactly like Moses and Jesus.<\/span> ________________________________________ [1] \u201cBible.\u201d\u00a0 Encyclop\u00e6dia Britannica from Encyclop\u00e6dia Britannica Premium Service. (http:\/\/www.britannica.com\/eb\/article-9079096) [2] \u201cAramaic language.\u201d\u00a0 Encyclop\u00e6dia Britannica from Encyclop\u00e6dia Britannica Premium Service. (http:\/\/www.britannica.com\/eb\/article-9009190) [3] \u201cbiblical literature.\u201d\u00a0 Encyclop\u00e6dia Britannica from Encyclop\u00e6dia Britannica Premium Service. (http:\/\/www.britannica.com\/eb\/article-73396) [4] \u2018Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources\u2019 by Martin Lings, p. 29. \u2018Sirat Rasul Allah\u2019 by Ibn Ishaq translated by A. Guillame, p. 79-81. \u2018The Quran And The Gospels: A Comparative Study,\u2019 p. 46 by Dr. Muhammad Abu Laylah of Azhar University. [6] \u2018The Quran And The Gospels: A Comparative Study,\u2019 p. 47 by Dr. Muhammad Abu Laylah of Azhar University. 7] \u2018The Quran And The Gospels: A Comparative Study,\u2019 p. 47-48 by Dr. Muhammad Abu Laylah of Azhar University. http:\/\/www.islamreligion.com\/articles\/200\/<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 Description: The Biblical evidence that Muhammad is not a false prophet.\u00a0 Part 1: The difficulties faced in discussing biblical prophecies, and accounts of some scholars who attested that Muhammad… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prophet-mohammad"],"yoast_head":"\n
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Jesus and the Apostles are believed to have spoken Aramaic.\u00a0 Aramaic continued in wide use until about AD 650, when it was supplanted by Arabic.\u00a0 The present day Bible is not, however, based on the Aramaic manuscripts, but on Greek and Latin versions.
Quoting the Bible prophecies does not entail that Muslims accept the present day Bible in its entirety as God\u2019s revelation. For the Islamic belief on previous scriptures.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
It is not a pre-condition of acceptance that a prophet be foretold by an earlier prophet.\u00a0 Moses was a prophet to Pharaoh even though he was not prophesized by anyone before him. Abraham was God\u2019s prophet to Nimrod, yet no one prophesized his coming.\u00a0 Noah, Lot, and others were true prophets of God, yet they were not foretold.\u00a0 The evidence of a prophet\u2019s truth is not limited to old prophecies, but it includes the actual message brought by him, miracles and more.
Discussing prophecies is a delicate matter.\u00a0 It requires sifting through Bible versions and translations, recently discovered manuscripts and searching out Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic words and investigating them.\u00a0 The task becomes especially difficult when: \u201cprior to the printing press (15th century), all copies of Bibles show textual variations.\u201d This is not an easy subject for lay people.\u00a0 For this reason, the best testimony comes from ancient and modern experts in the area who acknowledged the prophecies.
We have records of early Jews and Christians, both monks and rabbis, who witnessed that Muhammad was the fulfillment of specific Bible prophecies.\u00a0 The following are some examples of these people.
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\u201cAnd when there came to them a Book [Quran] from God confirming that which was with them \u2013 although before they used to pray for victory against those who disbelieved \u2013 but [then] when there came to them that which they recognized, they disbelieved in it; so the curse of God will be upon the disbelievers.<\/span>\u201d (Quran 2:89)<\/strong>
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\u201c\u2026a great fortune lies before your nephew, so take him home quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Jews of Medina were anxiously awaiting the arrival of a prophet.\u00a0 The third and fourth witnesses were their two famous Jewish rabbis, Abdullah bin Salam and Mukhayriq.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
The sixth and seventh witnesses were also Yemeni Jewish rabbis, Wahb ibn Munabbih, and Ka\u2019b al-Ahbar (d. 656 CE).\u00a0 Ka\u2019b found long passages of praise and the description of the Prophet prophesized\u00a0 by Moses in the Bible
The Quran states:
\u201cIs it not a sign to them that the learned men of the Children of Israel knew it (as true)?<\/span>\u201d (Quran 26:197)<\/p>\n
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[5] \u2018Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources\u2019 by Martin Lings, p. 35.
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