Zakir Naik – Prophet Muhammad as Prophesied in the Bible

I've given the talk on Prophet Muhammad, peace

be upon him, in the major world religious

scriptures.

But today, my topic specifically is

Muhammad, peace be upon him, in the Bible.

Today,

my main purpose is to prove to the

Christian that Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him,

has been prophesied in the Bible.

If the Christian do not believe

that Quran is the word of Almighty God,

I will prove from their scriptures, the Bible,

which the Christians believe is the word of

God that Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him,

is also mentioned in your Bible.

1st, we'll discuss

about the prophecies

in the Old Testament. The Bible, if we

analyze,

is divided into 2 parts.

The Old Testament,

and the New Testament.

The Old Testament deals with the stories of

all the prophets, from the first prophet, that

is Adam, peace be upon him, up to

the prophets before Jesus, peace be upon him.

And the New Testament deals with the stories

and the life of Prophet Jesus, peace be

upon him.

According to the Catholic version of the Bible,

the Douay version, there are 73 books in

the Bible.

If you read the Protestant

version of the Bible,

they

have thrown out 7 books from the Old

Testament,

which they call apocryphy.

Apocryphy

means doubtful.

So the Bible of the protestants

contains

66 books.

The Old Testament

of the protestants

contains

39 books,

and the Old Testament

of the Catholics

contains

46

books. The new testament of both,

Catholics and Protestants,

contain 27 books.

First we'll discuss

the prophecy of prophet Muhammad, peace be upon

him, in the old testament.

Allah says in the Quran in chapter

number 7, verse number 157.

They follow

the messenger,

the unleaded prophet who is mentioned in the

scriptures,

the law and the gospel.

If you read the Old Testament,

there is a very explicit

prophecy

in the Old Testament, in the book of

Deuteronomy,

chapter number 18, verse number 18, where almighty

God says,

I shall raise them up a prophet

from among thy brethren,

like unto thee, and I shall put my

words into his mouth, and he shall speak

all that I command him.

When we ask the Christians

that who does this prophecy refer to?

And most of the Christians say this prophecy

refers to no one but Jesus Christ, peace

be upon him.

And when we ask them that how does

this prophecy refer to Jesus Christ, peace be

upon him, they tell us, this prophecy says,

I shall raise them up a Prophet from

among thy brethren, like unto thee, like unto

Moses, peace be upon him. So this prophecy

says, the Prophet to come

would be like Moses, peace be upon him.

And the only Prophet who is like Moses,

peace be upon him, is Jesus Christ, peace

be upon him.

And then we ask them how is Jesus,

peace be upon him, like Moses, peace be

upon him. So they give us two reasons.

Number 1,

Moses, peace be upon him, was a Jew.

Jesus Christ, peace be upon him, was a

Jew.

Moses, peace be upon him, was a prophet

of God, was a spiritual leader. Jesus Christ,

peace be upon him, was a prophet of

God, was a spiritual leader.

These two similarities

are sufficient to prove that Jesus, peace be

upon him,

has been prophesied in Deuteronomy chapter number 18

verse 17.

I tell these Christians

that if these two similarities

are the only two points

for fulfillment of the prophecy

that the person should be a Jew

and he should be a prophet, then all

the prophets mentioned in the Old Testament,

after Moses, peace be upon him, all the

prophets mentioned in the Bible, after Moses, peace

be upon

him. Like

Solomon,

Ezekiel,

Isaiah,

Daniel,

Joel, Hosea, John the Baptist, all of them

were Jew

and all of them were prophets of God.

So all these prophets mentioned in the Bible,

after Moses, peace be upon him, they fulfill

the prophecy.

What is so unique about Jesus Christ, peace

be upon him?

So I am here to help the Christians.

I'm here

to make the Christians understand the Bible better.

And if I'm wrong,

the Christians are welcome during question answer time

to correct me.