MOHAMMAD PBUH IS PRAISED IN THE

BIBLE

God has sent Messengers over Messengers to warn people against the
misleading of Satan. Messengers like Noah (PBUH) preached people
over 900 years, still when the order of destruction from God came and
Noah prepared the boat, there were only few who left there homes and
traveled with him. We see the same situation even in the time of
Moses PBUH when he reached at mountain of the Amorites and asked
his people to enter and get the place which God has promised and they
denied:

Notwithstanding ye would not go up, but rebelled against the

commandment of the LORD your God:

Yet in this thing ye did not believe the LORD your God
(Deuteronomy 1:26 & 32)

From the Bible we come to know that Jews were habitual of breaking
commandments by God and Moses. So God finally decided to
substitute them.

JEWS SUBSTITUTED BY ANOTHER NATION

They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God;

they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will
move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will
provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
(Deuteronomy 32:21)

This is very simple that God being fade up with Jews, has planned to
choose another nation on earth to be His people, who follow God’s
commandments and glorify Him only. Without giving a second thought
it is clear from the above verse Jews will be substituted sooner or later,
as, God has become jealous because Jews has chosen other gods
leaving their Lord, so the revenge of this could only be that God choose
other people leaving Jews to move them to jealousy.

However, their trend did not change even in the time of Jesus Christ, as
Jesus say:

But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous

generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be
given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas:
(Mathew 12:39)
PLAN OF GOD

God has planned the substitute in the very early ages, as He very knew
the attitude of Jews, He is All-Knowing. The Bible tells us the about the
nation He had chosen already:

And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed

him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him
exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will
make him a great nation.
(Genesis 17:20)

God commanded Abraham to leave his town with Hagar and Ismael
and leave them into a desert, which God shall guide. God says:

The LORD had said to Abram, "Leave your country, your people
and your father's household and go to the land I will show you.

I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you; I will
make your name great, and you will be a blessing.

I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will
curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you."
(Genesis 12:1)

God has promised Abraham that He will raise a great nation from his
son Ismael, and we know that Ismael was settled in Arabia and the
nation finally formed from him is the Muslims. Let’s not get finished
here; we have to argue on it for the satisfaction of our Christian
brothers. In these few verses of Genesis, God has given many
prophesies which we will discuss below.
 THE PROPHESIES
BEING FRUITFUL

There are three major signs to identify that blessed one whom God has
planned to make a great nation.

On the continuous rebel of Jews, when Jesus gave them a final warning
he utters the plan of God and gives a sign to identify that substitute.

Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken

from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the
fruits thereof.
(Mathew 21:43)

As quoted earlier, God promises Abraham that He will make

Ishmael fruitful in Genesis 17:20. However, Bible does not
have any record that the generations of Isaac will also be
fruitful. Fruitful means Profitable in Oxford dictionary, which means
that this blessed one will be profitable for people, thinking for the
betterment of nation, guiding them to right way, never wants
destruction of his people and these are all attributes of Prophets,
because they spend their lives for this purpose. In the children of
Ismael, Mohammad PBUH is the only person who spent his life
following the above mentioned attributes and this is believed by
Christians as well. George Sale in his “The original impartial justice:
says:

"Muhammad gave his Arabs the best religion, as well as the

best laws"

Again we don’t have to think about Israelite Prophets because this

prophesy is only related with the children of Ismael, not Isaac. Also
Mohammad PBUH fulfils the remaining prophesy that his people or
his nation will be multiplied exceedingly and it is historically proved
that Mohammad PBUH found a great nation. At the time of Carlyle in
the nineteenth century, European historian Johann Doellinger asserted:

"No other mortal has ever, from the beginning of the world,
exercised such an immeasurable influence upon the religious,
moral, and political relations of mankind, as has the Arab
Muhammad."
MULTIPLY EXCEEDINGLY

On the study of Bible and other historical evidences we come to know

that the descendants of Isaac has reached up to 17 generations till the
birth of Jesus Christ. However, it has been recorded that Mohammad
PBUH is the 61st generation of Ishmael. Hence it is proved that the
generations of Ishmael have been multiplied exceedingly. So the
prophesy has again nothing to do with Isaac and Israelites.

TWELVE PRINCES

Again the Bible is very clear regarding the sons of Isaac and Ishmael.
Isaac had two sons Esau and Jacob, while Ishmael had twelve sons just
according to the prophesy.

Now these are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son,

whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bare unto
Abraham: And these are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by
their names, according to their generations: the firstborn of
Ishmael, Nebajoth; and Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam, And
Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa, Hadar, and Tema, Jetur,
Naphish, and Kedemah: These are the sons of Ishmael, and
these are their names, by their towns, and by their castles;
twelve princes according to their nations.

(Genesis 25:12-16)

A GREAT NATION

We know from the history and the Bible that Israelites were cursed to
have no land after they denied entering the Promised Land. Since then
they have been moving around the world to make a kingdom of their
own and we know that they have been failing to do so till today.
Furthermore, we have been told a sign in the Bible to identify that
great nation:

"What other nation is so great as to have their gods near them the
way the LORD our God is near us whenever we pray to him? And what
 other nation is so great as to have such righteous decrees and
laws as this body of laws I am setting before you today?

(Deuteronomy 4:7-8)

It means that the person who will form this great nation will set a great
law amongst the people. As I have already quoted above, George Sale
in his “The original impartial justice: says:

"Muhammad gave his Arabs the best religion, as well as the

best laws"

Let’s have a look that what historians comment about Mohammad

PBUH.

1. “Muhammad was the soul of kindness, and his influence was felt
and never forgotten by those around him.”
(A Hindu scholar Diwan Chand Sharma in his “The Prophets of the East,”
Calcutta 1935, p.122.)

2. “Four years after the death of Justinian, A.D. 569, was born at
makkah, in Arabia the man who, of all men exercised the
Greatest Influence upon the Human Race……. Mohammed…..”
(John William Draper, M.D., LLD., in his “A History of the Intellectual
Development of Europe,” London 1875.)

3. “I Doubt whether any man whose external conditions changed so

much ever changed himself less to meet them.”
(R.V.C Bodley in “The Messenger,” London 1946, p,9.)

4. “By a fortune absolutely unique in history, Mohammed is

a threefold founder of a Nation, of an empire, and of a
religion.”
(R.Bosworth-Smith in “Mohammed and Mohammedanism,” 1946).

5. “Mohammed was the most successful of all religious

personalities.”
(Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition)

It is clear from the discussion made above that Isaac did not beget the
nation whom we can conveniently call GREAT. Rather we have on our
record now that Ishmael had fulfilled all prophesies along with the
formation of a great nation having a great leader Mohammad PBUH.

FRUITFUL MULTIPLY TWELVE GREAT

EXCEEDINGL PRINCES NATION
Y
 ISAAC X X X X
ISHMAEL √ √ √ √

The chart gives us a vivid idea that the prophesies of Genesis are
undoubtedly relate to Ishmael and the historians record that
Mohammad PBUH is the only person who formed a nation based on
certain laws and principles, like R. Bosworth-Smith says that
Mohammad PBUH is a threefold founder of a nation, of an empire and
of a religion (that is ISLAM).

Bible also confirms that the leader or the prophet will be a Non–Jew;

Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my

soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring
forth judgment to the GENTILES
(Isaiah 42:1)

We find Mohammad PBUH, the only man in the history that came to
lead people to the path of God and formed a nation based on the
divine laws and judgment, just as mentioned in the above verse of the
Bible. Mohammad PBUH is the only way now to have salvation and
eternal life and Bible very strictly says to accept this prophet:

And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken

unto my words which he (that Gentile Prophet) shall speak in
my name, I will require it of him.
Deuteronomy 18:19
By: Qazi Ghulam Mustafa
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