I will raise them up a PROPHET FROM AMONG THEIR BRETHREN , LIKE UNTO THEE (Moses) , and will PUT MY WORDS IN HIS MOUTH ; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him. And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.Deuteronomy 18:18-19 (1) Like unto thee: Who was like Moses? Jesus or Muhammad? Jesus was unlike Moses in many ways while Muhammad was like Moses: Description Moses Muhammad Jesus Mercy){Birth :} Usual/ Usual / Unusual 2){Family life :} Married,children / Married, children / No marriage or children 3){Death :} Usual / Usual / Unusual (as per christian ) 4){Forced Emigration :} emigrated / emigrated / None 5){Encounter with :} Hot pursuit /Hot pursuit / No similar encounter enemies 6){Result of encounter:} Moral-Physical Victory / Moral-Physical Victory / Moral victory 7){Writing down of revelation :} In his lifetime (Torah) In his lifetime (Al-Quran) After him(Gospel) 8){Nature of teachings :} Spiritual-legal/ Spiritual-legal / Mainly spiritual 9){Acceptance of leadership (by his people) :} Rejected, then accepted / Rejected, then accepted / Rejected (by most Israelites). 10){Worshipped as God/Son no / no / yes of God (After departure) } 11)New Legal Laws bought yes / yes / no 2- Put my words in his mouth: If I ask you to read Deuteronomy, chapter 18, verse 18, and you read it, would I be putting my words into your mouth? No. But if I were to ask you to repeat after me what I say, for example: Say: He is Allah the One and Only. Allah, the Eternal Absolute; He begetteth not, nor is he begotten: And there is none like unto him. [Holy Quran 112:1-4] Would I not be putting these words INTO your MOUTH? That is indeed so. In an identical manner, the words of the Holy Quran, the Revelation vouchsafed by the Almighty God to Muhammad (pbuh) were revealed. It has been recorded in various Hadith (eg. Bukhari and Muslim) that Muhammad (pbuh) was forty years of age. He was in a cave of Hira, some three miles north of the City of Mecca. He used to go there frequently to medicate and pray to Allah. It was the 27th night of the Muslim month of Ramadan. In the cave the Archangel Gabriel appears before him and commands him in his mother tongue: IQRA which means READ! or Recite or Repeat. Muhammad (pbuh) replies: Maa-ana-beqaa-Ri’in which means: I am not learned! (fulfilling a prophecy in Isaiah 29:12, see below under Un-lettered prophet) The angel embraces him forcefully until Muhammad (pbuh) could not bear it anymore. He then releases him and commands him the second time Read and again Muhammad (pbuh) replies I am not learned. The angel embraces him the second time until he could not bear it and commands him again Read and again Muhammad (pbuh) gives the answer I am not learned. Thereupon the angel embraces him the third time and then releases him and says: Iqra-bissmi-Rabbikal-laziKhalaq, which translates to READ IN THE NAME OF THY LORD AND CHERISHER WHO CREATED-. Only then did Muhammad (pbuh) repeat the words after the angel as they were put into his mouth. Following the above verse of Sura Al-Alaq (chapter 96 of the Holy Qur’an), four more verses were repeated and recited on Muhammad’s (pbuh) first call and subsequently in written form in the Holy Qur’an. If someone or something came to you and embraced you so hard that you could not bear it any more, it would be natural for you to become very terrified and quickly obey the commands of that unknown figure in order to save your skin! You would quickly say to him tell me what to read and I will read it. The above incident shows the real character of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh). Allah had commanded the angel to act in that way in order to show us the truthfulness and the faith that Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) had in Allah. He was not going to obey any unknown figure that appears before him and tries to threaten him and commands him to read. He was truthful about himself all the time and tells the angel I am not learned. When the angel said Read in the name of thy Lord and Cherisher who created, only then did Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) repeat the words after him, for it became clear that this commandment was from Allah, the Lord of all creation, whom he had faith in. During the next twenty-three years of his prophetic life, words were put into his mouth, and he uttered them. They made an indelible impression on his heart and mind: and as the volume of Sacred Scripture (Holy Quran) drew, they were recorded on palm-leaf fibre, on skins and on the shoulder blades of animals; and in the hearts of his devoted disciples. Before his demise, these words were arranged in the order in which we find them today in the Holy Quran 3)(1) From among their brethren: Abraham, the forefather of the Jewish nation had two sons, Ishmael and Isaac (Genesis 21). The children of Isaac are the Jews and the children of Ishmael are the Arabs.‘Brethren’ in the language of the Old Testament can refer to the Jews themselves (Numbers 32:6), or to the ancestral cousins of the Jews such as the Arabs, Edomites and others (see Deuteronomy 2:4,8 for usage of the word ‘brethren’). So the Arabs are considered the brethren of the Jews.the prophet is not an Israelite; otherwise it should be written a prophet from among yourselves. JOHN AND THE PRIESTS In the Chapter of John, some Jewish priests quizzed John the Baptist about three people who they were informed about in their scriptures. They asked him: “Who are you?” John confessed (he didn’t deny but confessed), “I’m not the Christ.” They asked him, “Then who are you? Are you Elijah?” John said, “I’m not.” “Are you the prophet?” John answered, “No.” (John 1:19-21) So they then asked him, “Why do you baptize if you aren’t the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?” (John 1:25) The priests were expecting three people as prophesied by their books, so they asked about Christ, Elijah and ‘the Prophet’. Who is ‘the Prophet’? This cannot be a reference to Jesus as he is the Christ. Looking at a copy of the Bible with cross-referencing, we find that the words ‘the Prophet’ which occur in John 1:25 refer to the prophecy of Deuteronomy 18:18 in the Old Testament, which also mentions a forthcoming Prophet it can not be other than Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) as there is no other person in the history of mankind who resemble some one like moses (pbuh) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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