Jamal Badawi – Muhammad in The Bible 8 – Other References And Conclusions

			In the name of Allah, beneficence, the Merciful, the creator and the Sustainer of the universe, I
greet you with the greetings of all of the profits from Abraham to Prophet Muhammad peace and
blessings be upon him assalamu Aleikum, which means peace be unto you. I'm your host Hama Rashid.
This is the eighth and last program in our series on Muhammad in the Bible, or Prophet Muhammad is
foretold in the Bible. Today's program will largely be a wrap up of the previous seven programs in
the series. My guest on today's program is Dr. Jamal Badawi of St. Mary's University. Welcome to
Islam and focus, brother Jamal. In the last program, you gave various reasons to show that the
		

			Comforter or the advocate
		

			who was foretold by Jesus in the Gospel of john, was, in fact, Muhammad, or Prophet Muhammad, peace
and blessings be upon him, not the Holy Ghost. I wonder if you could explain for the benefit of the
viewers a little more about the original Greek term for comforter or advocate. parakeet I believe is
the Greek word or at least is the English equivalent that's used because of the lack of better
translation. But the original Greek word for that is para Cletus. Yes, which has been translated
like you said, as comforter advocate. Sometimes it's translated as somebody who admonishes all
variety of meanings for that.
		

			But it's interesting to notice that there is another Greek word, which is very, very close to
calculators. percolators
		

			percolators in Greek actually means the illustrious, the praised one or the Praiseworthy person.
		

			That second word percolators actually means exactly in Arabic, you'd be surprised. I met, I met,
which is another name of Prophet Mohammed, because both Ahmed and Mohammed come from the same route
in Arabic, which is hemp or press, right, that might raise some interesting questions for scholars
to explore.
		

			Is it possible that the original Greek word
		

			was actually perfectly to us, which means rather than percolators, which, like I said, in Greek,
when you write them, they're very, very close. It's almost very difficult to distinguish between you
said, and they sound almost the same. They sound also the same, but hundreds, and also what's the
difference in balance really mean? Right.
		

			So that raises another interesting question. But anyway, you look at it, whether it is the original
word was, particularly to switch means I met or Muhammad that shows again, the Mohammed was foretold
by name as the Quran has confirmed, whether you take it as paddock liters, which means admonish her
comfort her advocate, this still applies to Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him anywhere you look at
it's still applicable. Before we move on to the wrap up summary of the topic. Let me ask you another
question.
		

			In addition to the this reference that we've just been talking about in john of the Berkeley is
foretold by Jesus, are there any other statements in the New Testament which confirm that the
expected one was actually Prophet Muhammad, as we've discussed in previous sessions, and not spirit?
There are and since you want to make this to wrap up, I just give you one of the more important ones
in the Gospel of john chapter one, verses 19 through 25. There is the famous story, when john the
baptist was raised up, that the Jews sent to him some of the priests and Levi's to ask him what is
the identity of that Prophet? And notice here, the the questions were quite revealing and really
		

			interesting. They went to the Baptist, and they said,
		

			Are you Christ?
		

			He said, No.
		

			They said, Are you LDS? They meant the second coming of profit? Yes.
		

			He said, No. Maybe they expected the same profit that he has to come again rather than a profit to
come. Like Yes. He said no. And then they asked him a third
		

			question which is quite revealing. They said, Are you that Prophet? And he said, No.
		

			Notice here, that the Israelites, the priest and advise those who are learned people from the
scriptures, were expecting three distinct personalities to come, yet at the time of Jesus. One was
Christ, let's no one was the second coming of alias, which if it's not interpreted strictly as the
same as yours,
		

			could have been interpreted also, as john the baptist, coming as it is, which actually was stated by
Jesus.
		

			And then the third person, who is not Christ was not as was that Prophet. That means they were
expecting a third personality called that prophet who is that Prophet that they expected? The answer
has been covered in the past. And we come to that in the summary also.
		

			It is that Prophet, which was
		

			who was foretold in the book of Deuteronomy, chapter 18, verse 18, when Moses were saying, so they
started it, God would send you
		

			from among your President, that is the ishmaelites, a prophet like unto me, three distinct persons,
and that was up to the time of Prophet Jesus, if,
		

			throughout this whole series, these seven preceding programs and in the beginning of today's
program, you've quoted extensively from the Bible, how can you as a Muslim justify the use of other
scriptures to make this point?
		

			I think like we indicated in the first program,
		

			on the methodology of the whole series, that it is erroneous to believe that Muslims totally reject
the Bible rejects each and every word of it, or that they accept it literally that each and every
word is literally the Word of God that has been accurately and scrupulously preserved and has come
to us in the arena form. The Quran next is an obligatory duty on the Muslim to believe not only in
previous prophets, but also in the scriptures that were revealed to those prophets in their original
form. For that matter, then the Muslim adopts what I call
		

			a cautious openness.
		

			Its openness in a sense that one cannot unfairly presume that the whole Bible has been changed,
there is a possibility that some philosophical or theological arguments has been introduced. Some
statements which are ethnic oriented or reflect some bias might have been added by some of the
writers of the autistics, but I think it is erroneous and unfair to say that the Bible from A to Z
is nothing but just created statements that has no original revelation. But on the other hand, we
saying it's not optimist that's unqualified cautious of Venus, in a sense that according to the
Quran, one has to watch for the areas which might have undergone some changes. And as we indicated
		

			also on his program, the criteria the proper care here for the Muslim is to check on anything in the
Bible, any portion in the Bible that is consistent with the Quran, which was confirmed in the Quran
as the last scripture of God preserved in its originality, then the Muslim has no he has no reason
to reject those portions. So in that sense, then we could say that a Muslim could be quite often
looking into the Bible, using the Quran as the final and ultimate choice. And on that particular
topic on prophecies, we have seen ample evidence that there is still in the Bible. Plenty of clear
		

			prophecies about the advent of the last prophet Muhammad peace be upon.
		

			I understand that we have here today seven point chart, which summarizes the profile of the expected
profit. Perhaps we can make use of the chart as we go through the balance of today's program, and
uncover the various points. First of all, I wonder if you could tell us in what sense the Bible
prophecies prove that the expected profit was to be from Israel's descendants. Okay, what since
you're referring to the chat here, this is the first
		

			point that you're referring to, that the awaited prophet that has been awaited for too long by
various stylized prophets and Old Testaments that was referred to as a parklet. By the Jesus peace
be upon him. It has to be or was to be actually
		

			from the ish miles the sentence.
		

			In the second program, we have indicated that and try to explain it in a very simple way, by showing
that Abraham, the patriarch of monotheistic faith, has been promised by God in the book of Genesis,
especially in chapter 12 and chapter 17, that God will make him a great nation. He will bless him
and he will bless all the families of earth through his descendants. Alright. And then we know that
an Abraham had two wives
		

			The first was Sarah, the second Hagar, from his second wife, Hagar, he got
		

			Ishmael, the first son, and from the second wife, he got Isaac. And then we indicated that in the
book of Genesis in several places, especially in chapter 21, verses 13, and 18, beyond this general
promise of Abraham to bless the nations of Earth, through him, there was a specific mention, or
prompt
		

			from God, to make Isaac a great nation and to make a wish mind also a great nation. So both these
limbs, both those children has been specified for the blessing of prophethood. And then we have seen
that how throughout history, the promise of God to Abraham has been already fulfilled through both
branches of Abraham's household.
		

			From the descendants of Isaiah came all Israelite prophets.
		

			Joseph, Moses, David Solomon, Jesus, peace be upon them all. And then we said that from the
descendants of Ishmael,
		

			came the last prophet, Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, and the name Kadare appears frequently
in the Bible, and kidada was the second son of Ishmael. So in that sense, then we could say that the
Bible prophecies are very clear, very concise, despite of some statements that some people
interpreted in a prejudicial way that the promise of God was equally to both children, Ishmael and
Isaac and Mohammed is definitely the descendants of Ishmael. You might recall also that in the sixth
program, on this series, we provided further evidence also that that profit is coming from the
descendants of Ishmael. For example, in the
		

			in the
		

			prophecy about Jesse,
		

			and I, Isaiah,
		

			chapter 11, verses one and two talks about the prophet to come from the
		

			from Jesse. And by checking the Encyclopedia biblica, we have found that Jesse was used as a
contraction for Ishmael. So it's the same name as Ishmael, and that's in the Christian source itself
in the encyclopedia biblical edited by Cheyenne. So in that sense, then there is no doubt whatsoever
as to
		

			who his descendants, that profit is going to come definitely from the descendants of Ishmael,
separate places in the Bible. Okay, moving on to the second point, how about Mohammed similarity to
Moses, you might recall also in the second was third in the third program, we have dealt with this
in greater detail. So I can only make a very quick summary. For that today, we have this chart in
which we try to show
		

			at least 10 areas of comparisons between Moses and Mohammed on one hand, and Moses and Jesus, on the
other hand, and we have said that it is quite mistaken that some scholars say that that prophet like
unto Moses is going to be or was actually fulfilled in Jesus, for a number of reasons. First of all,
in the prophecy about Moses, in Deuteronomy, chapter 18, verse 18, it says, God would send you from
among your brethren, and he was addressing the Israelites. So the President of the sidelights, our
fish, my rights, okay.
		

			On the basis of that, then, to carry that further, even. We have said that,
		

			for example, both Mohammed and Moses were regarded as prophets, Jesus was regarded as Son of God,
Mohammed and Moses has parents, normal parents, mother and father, they have normal births, normal
family, life, marriage and children normal death.
		

			The emphasis in their teaching was a combination of spiritual legal. They both were leaders, not
just prophets, they lead their people and established a community of believers, their careers, as
prophets included being kings are not necessarily kings in the strict sense, but rulers, they both
encountered their enemies and had victory. And their mission was completed and a new order was
established, even in those very lifetime. And he said, if you look into all of this, you find that
the correspondence between Moses and Mohammed is just perfect. And when you compare it with Prophet
Jesus peace, be upon him, respected and acknowledged as he may be, but it's not really that Prophet,
		

			specifically
		

			for thought in Deuteronomy 1818, he's actually an Israelite himself. He's not from the president of
that site. So that applies very conclusively to Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him. Moving on to the
third point in our summary. Perhaps you could recap the proofs that are foretold in the
		

			Bible that the that Prophet that was expected was to come from Arabia is did Prophet Muhammad peace
be upon him? Okay, there were several points that were raised. Perhaps the most important reference
we made was to the book of the throne.
		

			To me, Chapter 33, especially verses one through three, in which it says that God came from Sinai
with advice from seer and came from Mount Paran. And we have given anthon evidence that foreign or
foreign and Arabic is actually the name of Mecca or Arabia in general. And we get evidence actually
from the Bible itself from the book of Genesis, chapter 21, verse 21, which says that Ishmael dwells
in the wilderness of Paran, and it's very well known historically that
		

			he lived in Arabia is the grandfather of herbs, their
		

			their relics are still there, the Kaaba, the holy shrine of Muslims in Mecca, is still there until
this very moment, which he built with the help of his father.
		

			Abraham, we mentioned also another evidence from the Bible and Isaiah chapter 21, verse 13, where
the term Arabia is mentioned, in particular, the burden is upon Arabia. That's the burden of
carrying the new religious revival or rejuvenation with fought on Arabia.
		

			We have seen further that most surprisingly, even the name Mecca, appears in the Bible. I have tried
to clarify that in one of those sheets. That's in the Psalms of David, and the 84th. Son, verse six,
it talks about the Valley of backcast.
		

			And we said that in Arabic, Mecca and Becca are the same actually they were mentioned in the Quran
referring to the same thing. And as such, when David prophet David, peace be upon him was talking
about the want to come from the Valley of Becca,
		

			who is that referring to and there is no other prophet that has come from Mecca or backcast other
name except for one, and that is, Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him. So in addition to this, you
might have
		

			you might recall, in the six program, that they were very vivid description in the Bible about the
holy shrine, the Kaaba,
		

			how it will be called, like New Jerusalem, or news, Zion,
		

			how does the door of the Kaaba will be permanently open and we know for 1400 years, it has always
been like that, and how it would be a house for all people. That is not for a particular ethnic
group. We're not talking, for example, about certain sites in Jerusalem. We're talking about the
Kaaba, which is a house open for all nations of all races, more than a million people coming for
pilgrimage every year, some description of pilgrimage even before Mohammed was born, Prophet
Muhammad peace be upon him hundreds of years before his birth, hundreds of years before pilgrimage
became part and parcel of Muslim practice, we find that this description has been given by Isaiah,
		

			for example, in chapter 52, verse 156, verse seven and eight, Chapter 16, verse 11, putting the
points together, there is no other way
		

			of interpreting the place of that Prophet. But that that will be in Arabia, Matt can particular that
the Prophet would be close to the Kaaba. And they again, there is no other person.
		

			It's almost like a glove. Exactly. What about the point of Mohammed is a messenger in a ruler? How
was that foretold in the Bible? In the fifth, I think it was the fifth program, we have gone into
greater detail in this analyzing chapter 42. In Isaiah, which gave several description, or profiles
of that prophet to come.
		

			One of which is the one that you're asking about that he wouldn't be ruling, he will be actually
carrying responsibility also beside preaching. And as you might recall, that included his
description as a servant and messenger of God, which is a very clear and famous title of Prophet
Muhammad, that his face would be universal. And these are the number of verses particularly in 42,
that he will bring a court of law. And again, we know that
		

			the most famous prophets who brought a complete court of law were basically Moses and then after
Moses, the only one was Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him. It said also here that the aisles would
wait for his law, referring to the spread of Islam all over the world. And as we know, nearly 20% of
total world populations are Muslims.
		

			That he will have patience and victory will not fail he will not be discouraged, as other prophets
were, and that he will live until he has total and complete victory over his adversaries and
established faith and justice on Earth. But perhaps the most surprising and most conclusive evidence
appears in Isaiah 40
		

			To 11 Chapter The verse 11, which mentioned kadesh, the joy that the people who are living in the
settlements of kadesh will have as a result of becoming of that Prophet, and we know that according
to the Bible itself, in Genesis 2513, Kadar was the second son of Ishmael, so it's referring to
Arabia, Qatar, actually in the Bible at times is used to refer to Arabia. So not only we're talking
about a variety of characteristics, but as he said, as a prophet and ruler, he very clearly meets
those criteria.
		

			Okay, let's move on to this question of Revelation. How did Muhammad peace and blessings be upon him
receive revelation? And how is that related to the prophecies in the Bible? Okay, anyone who has the
slightest information about Islam and how, you know, the revelation started to Prophet Muhammad
peace be upon him. He knows first of all, that he was meditating in a cave of Hara outside of Makkah
engine, Gabrielle came to him and he said, read or decide, he said, I am not learned. Okay? And then
afterwards, he told him read or decide in the name of the Lord who created man and then continued by
the first revelation. Everybody also who knows something about the revelation knows that Prophet
		

			Muhammad peace be upon him was not using his own words, even when the Quran was revealed to him that
it was dictated to him by engine Gabrielle and he was simply repeating word for word, what was
taught to him and he was very cautious, and repeating tests that he would not miss any word from the
Quran. This are fundamental information for anyone who studied anything about Islam. As to how was
this for thought in the Bible, there are plenty of evidence conclusive and very clear evidence in
the Bible. Take Deuteronomy,
		

			chapter 18, verse 18, Moses describes that prophet like unto Him who is going to come and he says,
God will put the words in his mouth, that is, he will not speaking of his own, he would be dictated
to scriptures. That's exactly what happened to
		

			take Deuteronomy 1820. It says that He will speak in the name of the Lord. And as he indicated in
the previous session also, always the Quran starts with Bismillahirrahmanirrahim, in the name of
God, Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful, that we know that the first revelation as I said, that can
the Prophet Muhammad says, read in the name of your Lord, which is gives a very clear hint, if not
there, an obvious indication of the nature of prophets, which is consistent fully with the Quran in
chapter 53, verse three and four talks exactly about the same type of description of Revelation. Not
only this, we found that in Isaiah, chapter 42, particularly in verse nine, it says, that this new
		

			scripture given to that Prophet would be in a new language, it says, a new song to the Lord, that is
a new language of description in the symbolical scriptural language. And we know that again they
stylized prophets had the Scripture and assisted language core and that was given to Prophet
Mohammed was revealed in a different language and that is, the Arabic language in which is still
available, as intact when Isaiah chapter 2929, verses 18, sorry, verses 11 to 13. There is the exact
description almost word for word
		

			to what happened to Prophet Mohammed in the cave of Hira, because it says in Isaiah, the book is
given unto Him who is not learned saying, read this, I pray thee, and he will say I'm not learning
exactly word for word what Prophet Mohammed stated hundreds of years later, in the cave of Hara, not
only this, we find, for example, in Isaiah chapter 28, verse 11, description a very accurate
description of the state of the Prophet when he was receiving that revelation and his fears that you
might be missing something which is again, very identical to the description given in the Quran. And
in chapter 75, verses 16 and 17. As far as the revelation is, perhaps, there's no room to dispute,
		

			its applicability.
		

			I wonder if perhaps you might be able to summarize for us a few historical events from the life of
Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him,
		

			which were foretold in the Bible, things that Prophet Muhammad management while himself in which had
been previously foretold in the, in the Scriptures, the biblical scriptures. All right. You might
recall we mentioned before, for example, the the the astronomy, the prophecy by Prophet Moses, in
the same book of Deuteronomy, chapter 33. It was mentioned there,
		

			that
		

			the Lord's will come from non parents
		

			with him would be 10,000 since
		

			and as we indicated before, that was precisely the number of Muslims the number of believers in
there
		

			Going back to Makkah, the victorious bloodless takeover of Mecca, which from which they were driven
by the pagans. We mentioned also
		

			the citation from the book of Habakkuk chapter three in particular, when it talks also about,
		

			about the the prophet who would be away from his homeland that was even much more clear in Isaiah
chapter 21, verses 13 through 17, describing the forced migration of the Prophet and his followers,
under the threat of
		

			being killed under persecution and how they were received in Medina, tema, as the Christian sources
have described, it is an oasis north of Medina, the second holiest China of Islam, and the place to
which Prophet Mohammed, migrated, there are others. But, in fact, the description is so vivid and so
clear, that it leaves no room to suspect that there was any other prophets in the entire human
history, who faced exactly the same kind of historical events, as Prophet Muhammad did, with the
exact description even of the number of people with him, right? Like the perfect match exactly,
right. No other possibility even that other prophets might might share the sin. What about this
		

			question of timing now to come after Jesus? When when was that what does the Bible have to say, but
when this prophet was to come, in he specific when and in the beginning of this program, I mentioned
the prophecy by prophet john the baptist wrote the prophecy that indication that people were still
waiting for a profit, that profit was 4000, Deuteronomy 1818. So up to Jesus time, then it was not
he was not there. And then even after Jesus, as we indicated, Jesus peace be upon him speak about
the Paraclete. And you have indicated the Paraclete is a man and the Prophet, and the men gender was
used actually, to refer to him. So it means
		

			that he was never there unto Jesus time. And Jesus indicated that the Paraclete, or comforter on
this case is not or Mohammed is coming after him. So again, in terms of any confusion as to when
this prophet whether he has already come or whether in past history, or whether he still yet to
come, is very clearly answered, he has never come before Jesus. He was for thought after Jesus, and
the description and provide perfectly fit a prophet Muhammad. So some people are really waiting for
somebody who's already there was come 1400 years ago,
		

			we only have a few moments left in today's program. And I'm wondering, you go back to the New
Testament and
		

			to question as to whether or not there's any evidence of the shift of prophethood, away from the
Israelite side, to the light side? Well, it is both in the old as well as the New Testament. In
fact, if you go back, for example, to the book of Ezekiel, chapter two, verse three, it again
indicates how many of those spirits were rebelling against God. And then there was very clear
threats. In Jeremiah, the book of Jeremiah, chapter 31, verse 36, telling that if Israel continues,
or the Israelites continue into rebellion against God's, then Prophethood, we'll be checking it
says, The kingdom of God with God would be taken from you, you will cease to be a nation before me.
		

			The same thing has been repeated by Prophet Jesus peace be upon him in Matthew 21, especially verse
43, when he talks about the fig tree, and that again, the factory would be cut after three years if
it doesn't work.
		

			So that's exactly what happened. That the owner of prophethood shifted to the other side of the
Abraham's children to take their shares also, in the spiritual leadership of humanity to unite them
under the same
		

			umbrella. Jamal in the closing seconds of today's program. I've enjoyed doing this series with you.
I wonder for the purposes of people who perhaps follow this series who might want to check some
additional references. Could you indicate what additional references might be available for people?
I think the most important reference that I have you simply read the Bible correctly, whatever
edition, read the Bible carefully, especially the verses I cited, you find the evidence right there,
right. In addition to this, there was there's a little booklet there are lots of other differences.
Also an Arabic some Arabic some English is called what the Bible says about Mohammed by Atma de
		

			that. There's another little pamphlet called political biblical studies from Muslim perspective that
was written by a brother from the US was a former priest who became Muslim was a Baptist peace
priest, I think, and one of the most scholarly works done in two volumes is Muhammad in words
scripture by Abdulhak bdrc, which provides an exhaustive study of this subject and actually was a
very useful source for this series.
		

			There are others. Other references also that's for short this time and just defensively, one of the,
some of the more
		

			common and for Accessible references, some other easier than others. Okay brother Jamal, we've
exhausted our time for the day. Just before signing off. I want to invite you back next week when we
start our new series on Muslim beliefs. That's our program today. Thank you for watching Islam.