What The Bible Says About Muhammad SAW Part A

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Dear readers,

Have you ever wonder about the existence of Muhammad SAW on the Bible? As we know, The Bible says so many important histories, also many stories about greatest Man that ever born on earth. If your head is full with same questions that I have on my mind, I suggest you to read this articles below.

There was a great man, name Ahmad Deedat, that had this conversation about what The Bible says about prophet Muhammad SAW. He discussed it with dominees in South Africa. Ahmad Deedat was an old man that had been learned and searched about the proof of his religion, which is Islam. He traveled a lot, he went to many different places. And this article below is quote by his discussion with dominees in South Africa, and I think this conversation can be a starting point to think about the Islam.

(His conversation with the dominees)

Why nothing?
I posed the question: "What does the Bible say about Muhammad?"

Without hesitation he answered, "Nothing!"

I asked: "Why nothing? According to your interpretation the Bible has so many things to say about the rise of Soviet Russia and about the Last Days and even about the Pope of the Roman Catholics?"

He said, "Yes, but there was nothing about Muhammad!"

I asked again, "Why nothing? Surely this man Muhammad who had been responsible for the bringing into being a world-wide community of millions of Believers who, on his authority, believe in:
(1) The miraculous birth of Jesus,
(2) That Jesus is the Messiah,
(3) that he gave life to the dead by God's permission, and that he healed those born blind and the lepers by God's permission.

Surely this book (the Bible) must have something to say about this great Leader of men who spoke so well of Jesus and his mother Mary?"

The old man from the Free State replied. "My son, I have been reading the Bible for the past 50 years, and if there was any mention of him, I would have known it."

Not one by name!
I enquired: "According to you, are there not hundreds of prophecies regarding the coming of Jesus in the Old Testament."

The dominee interjected: "Not hundreds, but thousands!"

I said, "I am not going to dispute the 'thousand and one' prophecies in the Old Testament regarding the coming of Jesus Christ, because the whole Muslim-world has already accepted him without the testimony of any Biblical prophecy. We Muslims have accepted the de facto Jesus on the authority of Muhammad alone, and there are in the world today no less than 900,000,000 followers of Muhammad who love, respect and rev ere Jesus Christ as a great Messenger of God without having the Christians to convince them by means of their Biblical dialectics. Out of the 'thousands' of prophecies referred to, can you please give me just one single prophecy where Jesus is mentioned by name? The term 'Messiah', translated as 'Christ', is not a name but a title. Is there a single Prophecy where it says that the name of the Messiah will be JESUS, and that his mother's name will be MARY, that his supposed father will be JOSEPH THE CARPENTER; that he will be born in the reign of HEROD THE KING, etc. etc.? No! There are no such details! Then how can you conclude that those 'thousand' Prophecies refer to Jesus (Peace be upon him)?"

The dominee replies: "You see, prophecies are word-pictures of something that is going to happen in the future. When that thing actually comes to pass, we see vividly in these prophecies the fulfillment of what had been predicted in the past."

I said: "What you actually do is that you deduce, you reason, you put two and two together."

He said: "Yes."

I said: "If this is what you have to do with a 'thousand' prophecies to justify your claim with regards to the genuineness of Jesus, why should we not adopt the very same system for Muhammad?"

The dominee agreed that it was a fair proposition, a reasonable way of dealing with the problem.

I asked him to open up Deuteronomy, chapter 18, verse 18, which he did. I read from memory the verse in Afrikaans, because this was my purpose in having a little practice with the language of the ruling race in South Africa.

'N PROFEET SAL EK VIR HULLE VERWEK UIT DIE MIDDE VAN HULLE BROERS, SOOS JY IS, EN EK SAL MY WOORDE IN SY MOND LE, EN HY SY SAL AAN HULLE SE ALLE WAT EK HOM BEVEEL. Deut.18: 18.

The English translation reads as follows:-

"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 all that I shall command him." Deut.18:18.

Having recited the verse in Afrikaans, I apologized for my uncertain pronunciation; the dominee assured me that I was doing fine.

I enquired: "To whom does this prophecy refer?"

Without the slightest hesitation he answered: "JESUS!"

I asked: "Why Jesus?... his name is not mentioned here."

The demine replied: "Since prophecies are word-pictures of something that is going to happen in the future, we find that the wordings of this verse adequately describe him. You see the most important words of this prophecy are 'SOOS JY IS' (like unto thee), - LIKE YOU - like Moses, and Jesus is like Moses. "

I questioned: "In which way is Jesus like Moses?"

The answer was: "In the first place Moses was a JEW and Jesus was also a JEW; secondly, Moses was a PROPHET and Jesus was also a PROPHET - therefore Jesus is like Moses and that is exactly what God had foretold Moses - "SOOS JY IS". "Can you think of any other similarities between Moses and Jesus?"

I asked. The dominee said that he could not think of any.

I replied: "If these are the only two criteria for discovering a candidate for this prophecy of Deuteronomy 18:18, then in that case the criteria could fit any one of the following Biblical l personages after Moses:- Solomon, Isaiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Malachi, John the Baptist etc., because they were also ALL Jews as well as Prophets. Why should we not apply this prophecy to any one of these prophets, and why only to Jesus? Why should we make fish of one and fowl of another?"

The dominee had no reply.

I continued: "You see, my conclusions are that Jesus is most unlike Moses, and if I am wrong I would like you to correct me."So staying, I reasoned with him: "In the FIRST place Jesus is not like Moses, because, according to you - 'JESUS IS A GOD', but Moses is not God. Is this true?"

He said: "Yes."

I said: "Therefore, Jesus is not like Moses! SECONDLY, according to you - 'JESUS DIED FOR THE SINS OF THE WORLD', but Moses did not have to die for the sins of the world. Is this true?"

He again said: "Yes."

I said: "Therefore Jesus is not like Moses! THIRDLY, according to you - 'JESUS WENT TO HELL FOR THREE DAYS', but Moses did not have to go there. Is this true?"

He answered meekly: "Y-e-s."

I concluded: "Therefore Jesus is not like Moses!"

"But dominee,"

I continued: "these are not hard facts, solid facts; they are mere matters of belief over which the little ones can stumble and fall. Let us discuss something very simple, very easy that if your little ones are called in to hear the discussion, would have no difficulty in following it, shall we?"

The dominee was quiet happy at the suggestion.

Dear readers, there are more explanations about the topic above. But, I don't want to make this article became too long and you get bored at reading it, so I am making this article into 2 parts. And the following article will be the second part of the explanation.

Thank you for reading it, have a good day.

And God bless you, alhamdulliahirobilalamin....

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