Jesus’ Comforter Is Muhammad, the Prophet
of Islam
But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the
Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall
testify of me.
—John 15:26–27
Reverend Franklin Graham:
You may feel surprised to
know that the topic I chose for this letter is not Jesus but his Comforter, whom
he mentioned in some of his predictions. While talking to his disciples, Jesus
told them that his Comforter or the Advocate would come from God to testify of
him. I chose to talk about his Comforter first, because I need his testimony to
prove that Jesus was not a Deity but a mighty messenger of God, and he did not
teach any of those doctrines which his followers now believe in his name as the
integral parts of their faith. But before I go into that, we need to check first
who Jesus really meant to be his Comforter so that you could accept his
testimony to be true and valid.
Jesus’
Comforter is not the Holy Ghost, but Muhammad
Following the signs or the
indications in Jesus’ predictions, the Muslims believe undoubtedly that his Comforter
is Muhammad, the last Prophet of God, though you may nullify their claim with his
another prediction in John 14:26, where he mentioned clearly:
But the Comforter which is the Holy Ghost,
whom the Father will send in my name, He shall teach you all things, and bring
all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
After this clear
prediction, it is very much expected that you’d
claim Jesus’ Comforter is no one else
but the Holy Ghost. In reply to that, I would ask you to have patience with me
until I prove with clear and concrete evidence from the Gospel and the Quran
both that Jesus meant none but Muhammad to be his Comforter.
My first observation or
objection is, the Holy Ghost does not match with any of his predictions, while
Muhammad does with each of them equally well and without any question. I’ll now try to justify my claim one by one. Since
Jesus mentioned the name of the Holy Ghost as his Comforter, we have to check first
who was this Holy Ghost that Jesus meant for his Comforter?
Holy Ghost
vs. Holy Spirit
To find this answer, we need to
know the true meaning and implication of two translated names in the Bible: the
Holy Ghost and the Holy Spirit.
Jesus used to teach his
people in his native language, Aramaic, which had been translated first into
Hebrew, from Hebrew to Greek and from Greek to English. But as we are concerned
only with the English version of the Bible, I’ll discuss how the Holy Ghost came
into English from the Greek version of the Bible.
The learned scholars of
the Western world have detected some confusion while translating the phrase “Holy
Ghost” or “Holy Spirit” from Greek to English. They found pneuma in Greek is the root word for spirit, and it has no separate
word for ghost. So, in many places of the King James and Roman Catholic version
of the Bible, the terms Holy Ghost and Holy Spirit both are used to mean the
same thing or to serve the same purpose.
In the Revised Standard Version of
the Bible, which was reviewed and edited by some thirty-two scholars of the
highest eminence and backed by fifty cooperating denominations, the word Ghost
was replaced by Spirit. At this point, it is important to note here that both the
Bible and the Quran have used the term Spirit for a messenger of God, whom He
usually appoints from the angels and also from human beings to carry out His mission
on earth or to serve His purpose. Let me
justify my point with some instances from both the Bible and the Quran.
And the Holy Ghost [Spirit] descended
in a bodily shape like a dove upon him. [Jesus] (Luke 3:22)
And there appeared an
angel unto him [Jesus] from the heaven, strengthening him. (Luke 22:43)
Then Allah will ask: O
Jesus son of Mary! Recall my favor upon you and to your mother, how I
strengthened you with the Holy Spirit. (Quran 5:110)
[To Muhammad] Say: The Holy Spirit
has brought the revelation from your Lord in truth, in order to strengthen
those who believe, and as a guide and glad tidings to the Muslims [who
surrender to God]. (Quran 16:102)
Reverend, in many places of
the Gospel, the term “Spirit” has been used for the true prophets of God as
well as for the false prophets. Jesus was found to caution his disciples about them,
saying:
Beloved, believe not
every Spirit, but try the Spirits whether they are of God; because many false
Prophets are gone out into the world. Hereby
know ye the Spirit of God: Every Spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is
come in the flesh is of God. (1John 4:1–2)
In that precautionary
note of Jesus, we have noticed that he used “Spirit” and the “Prophet” to mean a
messenger from humankind regardless to his status. In other word, he did not
mean any angel or the invisible Holy Ghost to be his Comforter. He meant his
Comforter would be a human being and a chosen prophet of God. But since Jesus
was aware of the false prophets and also about their false claims to mislead
the people from his teaching, he also left for them a clear indication of how
to identify a true prophet, or his Comforter, from the false claimants.
Jesus told them the true Prophet
of God would remind them who Jesus really was and why he was sent to them. In
other word, a true Prophet would never tell them that God appeared to them in
the form of Jesus and they should worship him as God. Rather, he would tell
them Jesus was a human being-a man of flesh blood and was sent to earth only to
guide them by the command of God. It is what Muhammad-the last Prophet of God
testified about Jesus in His last and final Testament-the Quran. We shall know
about it more as we proceed with His other predictions.
Let’s continue with other
parts of Jesus’ prediction that he made about his Comforter in John 14:26.
He shall
teach you all things and bring all things to your remembrance (John 14:26).
Reverend, this part of Jesus’
prediction describes Muhammad accurately. Jesus being an inspired Messenger of God knew in
advance that a day would come after him, when his people would forget what he
taught them following the laws of the Torah, and would be misled by the invented
doctrines of men which they would teach them in his name. (If God is willing, I
would discuss those invented parts of their faith in my next seven letters). But, at the same time, Jesus also knew that Muhammad-the
last Prophet of God would arrive after him along with His last guidebook- the
Quran testifying of his true status and mission and also reminding them of what
he really taught them and what he did not teach. So it happened, as he said. To
verify the truth, you may read again the last few pages of my last two letters.
By this prediction, Jesus also confirmed
indirectly but undoubtedly that he did not mean the Holy Ghost to be his
Comforter. How could he mean the invisible Holy Ghost to appear before his
people and to bring everything back to their memory?
We may now check what Jesus said about his Comforter in his other
predictions.
In John 16:13-14, Jesus said to his disciples:
Howbeit when he, the Spirit of
Truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth. For he shall not speak of
himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that he shall speak: and he will shew
you things to come. He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and
shall show it unto you.
“The Spirit
of Truth” describes Muhammad perfectly well.
Reverend, the ‘Spirit of Truth’
describes Muhammad perfectly well. According to all his biographers, both
ancient and modern, Arab and non-Arab, Muslims
and non-Muslims, Muhammad was called Al
Amin (in Arabic), meaning the truthful or trustworthy, by all his pagan kith
and kin, beginning from his very boyhood. They called him so for his being
scrupulously honest, truthful, and trustworthy. In other words, his love and commitment
for truth and trustworthiness was known to all, long before he claimed himself a
prophet of God.
He will
guide you into all truth. (John 16:13)
According to the description
of the Holy Scriptures-the Bible and the Quran both, the eternal truth in the
guidance of God, is pure and pristine monotheism where God is claimed to be one
and only and none has any right to be worshipped except Him. The Bible has
called it as the First Commandment of God and the Quran has mentioned it as Islamic
monotheism. In that sense, all the messengers of God including both Jesus and
Muhammad were sent to proclaim the worship of one true God among their people.
Jesus’ followers worshipped none but One God as long as he lived with
them. But, after his ascent to heaven, they somehow deviated from the eternal
truth of the First Commandment and began to worship God following the invented
doctrines of men. Jesus being an inspired Messenger of God knew it to be
inevitable. But, he also knew that God would send His last Messenger Muhammad reviving
and restoring the eternal truth of His guidance, in Islam and in His everlasting
guidebook the Quran. So, Jesus said to his disciples that when his Comforter would
come, he would guide them again to the eternal truth being preached and
practiced by all his Predecessors. I wrote about it in my last two letters supported
by countless evidence from both parts of the Bible and also from the Quran.
We’ll now examine another part of Jesus’ prediction
in John 16:13 where he said:
For he
shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak …
Reverend, based on well-established tradition and Muhammad’s biographies-both
old and modern, we came to know when or how he received words from God. We have
been told that the Angel Gabriel delivered the words of God to him at the age
of forty when he was meditating in the solitary cave of the Mount Hira about
three miles away from Mecca-his place of birth. Muhammad was illiterate and he
did not know how to read or write. So he had to repeat each and every word with
Gabriel until he committed them by heart. Then he conveyed the same to the people as he
heard from him. In other words, while delivering the words of God, Muhammad did
not add anything to them from his own, nor he omitted or held back anything
from what he learnt. The Holy Quran has still been carrying the same words as Muhammad
received from God through Gabriel about fourteen hundred years ago. At this
point, I also like to mention here that through fulfilling this prediction of
Jesus, Muhammad has also fulfilled God’s promise that He made to Moses about
sending a prophet like him, in Deuteronomy 18:18.
And he will
shew you things to come (John 16:13).
Reverend, before I enter
into this prediction, I should mention to you first the Holy Ghost does not
match this prediction, because the Holy Ghost is known to carry the commands of
God to His designated messengers, he is not known to make any prediction. But the
prophets of God are well known in making prophecies or predictions. In fact, it
has been made a criterion to identify a true prophet of God from a false claimant.
Predictions made by a true Prophet of God would come true but the predictions of
a false prophet would not come to pass. (Duet 18:22)
According to the description of many authentic
Hadith (traditions related to Muhammad’s own words and deeds, as recounted by
his close companions), Muhammad made a series of prophecies, including the
signs of the Last Hour and of Jesus’ Second Coming. Many of them occurred soon
after he left, and many of them have still been occurring in and around us. I have
stated below only a few of them that have already occurred and are occurring till
today, proving the sanctity of his message and mission both.
·
Before his death, Muhammad called his daughter Fatima to his
bedside and told her she would be the first among his family to join him after
his death. And so it happened. Fatima, who was then only twenty eight, joined
her father six months after he left.
·
Muhammad predicted the caliphate (the reign of his rightly guided
companions) would last for thirty years and then there would be biting
kingship. The history of Islam tells us the prediction of the noble prophet
came true, as he said.
·
Muhammad predicted Uthman (third caliph of Islam) would be killed
while reading the Quran, and so it happened
.
Reverend, I will quote
below a few more predictions that Muhammad made to his people about fourteen
hundred years ago, the truth of which is now more than evident.
·
Muhammad said the Muslims would conquer Damascus, Jerusalem, Iraq,
Persia, Constantinople, and Cyprus, and their religion, Islam, would reach as
far as the remotest corners of the world in the East and the West.
·
The barefooted Bedouins would compete in building tall buildings.
·
The mosques would be built like palaces.
·
Killing would increase in such a way that the one who killed would
not know why he killed, and the one killed would not know why he was killed.
·
Sexual promiscuity would increase and a new disease, which people
had not heard of before, would spread among them as a consequence of that.
·
Women would appear naked while still being dressed.
·
People would hop between cloud and earth. (referring journey by
air).
He
[the Spirit of Truth] shall glorify me.” (John 16:14)
Reverend, this prediction
of Jesus about his Comforter has also been fulfilled through Muhammad.
I already have mentioned
before that the “Spirit of Truth” refers to Muhammad-the Prophet of Islam. We shall
now check how Muhammad, who arrived nearly six hundred years after Jesus,
glorified him. We will find the answer in the Quran where the name and status
of Jesus and also of his mother Mary was raised high through his testifier
Muhammad. Not only that, it is also
through Muhammad’s testimony in the Quran, Jesus was made free from the
accountability of those invented doctrines
of men that his followers believed in his name as the integral parts of their
faith after he left. (Quran 3:42–55; 4:156-157, 172; 5:46, 72–73, 116–117; 19:
27-36, 88–92; 43:59, 63–64)
Jesus’
Comforter will come after he leaves
In John 16:7, Jesus said to his disciples: Nevertheless, I tell you the truth; It is
expedient for you that I go away; for if I go not away, the Comforter will not
come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.
In this prediction, Jesus
made it absolutely clear that his Comforter would come after his departure, and
not before that. So it happened, because no other prophet except Muhammad came
after Jesus with a revealed Book like the Quran or a great religion like Islam.
The Quran also contains a prophecy of Jesus bearing the good news of Ahmad’s arrival, after
he leaves. Ahmad is another popular name of Muhammad.
(To Muhammad)And,
remember when Jesus-the son of Mary said, O children of Israel! I am the
Messenger of Allah towards you, confirming the Torah which came before me, and
to give you glad tidings of a Messenger who will come after me, whose name
shall be Ahmad.(61:6)
By this prediction, Jesus also confirms that he did not mean the Holy
Ghost to be his Comforter, because there
are many instances in the Gospel and also in the Quran that tell us the Holy
Ghost appeared to Jesus before his departure from earth. (Luke 3:21-22; Quran 5:110)
Jesus’
“another Comforter” refers to none but Muhammad
While talking to his disciples
about the Comforter, Jesus said to them, And I will pray the Father, and he shall give
you another Comforter that he may abide with you forever. (John 14:16)
Reverend, we shall first try to examine what Jesus really meant by
‘another Comforter?’ The scholars of the Bible used the Greek word “allon” for another. It also means
“another of the same kind.” On the basis of that, we can rightly assume that
Jesus wanted his disciples to know and believe that his ‘another Comforter’
would be someone like him, having the same status or position and the same
mission to fulfill. The Quran also tells us to believe and respect all the
prophets of God equally and without making any distinction among them. (3:84)
Accordingly, we believe that Jesus and his successor Muhammad had the same
status and both of them were sent to fulfill the same mission which is to
establish the worship of One True God among the people and to guide them all to
His path.
.He [The Comforter] may abide with you
forever
This last part of Jesus’ prediction
in John 14:16, also describes Muhammad perfectly well. Some of my missionary
friends, however, wanted to know how Muhammad, who came long after Jesus with a
different religion, could live forever with his followers. I surprised them
saying that Jesus meant the Muslims to be his true followers, because it is only
the Muslims, who love and respect Jesus as a mighty messenger of God and also worship
God according to the eternal truth of the first commandment that Jesus preached
and practiced himself following the footsteps of all his predecessors. In that
case, it is very much expected that Jesus would consider only the Muslims to be
his true followers and it is with them his Comforter or Muhammad would live
forever. Then, I have tried to explain to them how Muhammad who has left the
world about fourteen hundred years ago, have still been abiding with his
followers, and will continue to live until the end of the world. We shall check
the truth with some clear and concrete evidence from both Islamic and
non-Islamic sources.
Islamic
sources
Reverend,
the Quran tells the believers that if they really love God and hope to meet Him
in their life hereafter, they should obey Muhammad and follow his Sunnah meaning the acted examples of his words and deeds that he set
for them through keeping the commands of God. (3:31; 33:21; 4:65, 80; 42:52) On
the basis of that, the Muslims try to live their lives following the Sunnah of
the Prophet or the set examples of his life. Thus the Muslims have kept his
name alive in every walk of their life through following him as their role
model.
Muhammad’s
name is also remembered aloud ten times a day in all Muslim countries of the
world, when a muezzin (who calls the Muslims five times a day from a local
mosque to attend to their prayers) announces some of the prescribed phrases
twice. One of them is, “I bear witness that Muhammad is the messenger of God.”
The Muslims also make this witness for Muhammad, 9 times a day and also
ask God for His peace and blessing upon him 20 times a day while saying their
five times obligatory prayers in their homes, mosques, or by the side of a road.
Along with those obligatory prayers, they also make many optional and special
prayers and all their prayers whether obligatory, optional or special, remain incomplete
if they don’t make that witness about Muhammad or ask God to bestow His peace
and blessing upon him. Besides that, we have no count of how many millions of
cell phones, i-pads and computers among 1.60 billion of his followers today,
are now loaded with five times call of prayers along with his sayings or
teachings to keep his name alive forever.
You will also not find any name in the entire world which is more
popular than the name of Muhammad. You might feel amazed to know that one out
of ten from 1.6 billion Muslims in the world, is named after the name of their
beloved Prophet Muhammad or Ahmad.
There is also no count of how many tons of books have been written so
far on various aspects of Muhammad’s life only by the Muslim writers-both Arab
and non-Arab to keep his name alive forever in the history of mankind.
Most important of all, the
Muslims need to invoke God for His peace and blessing upon Muhammad every time
they utter, hear, read or write his name. This remembrance of Muhammad’s name aloud
or in silence, becomes more intensified and incessant in both Makkah and
Medina, the places of his birth and death and especially during the time of Hajj
(Pilgrimage attended now by a million once a year in commemoration of Abraham’s
sacrifice of his son).
According to the projected data
of Pew report, if Islam-the latest and the fastest growing religion of the world
maintains its current rate of growth, the number of its adherents which is now
1.6 billion, will reach to 1.76 by 2050 and by the end of the century it will
be the largest on this planet, claiming one of its three people as Muslim. On
the basis of that calculation, we have no doubt in mind that the possibility of
Muhammad’s living forever with his followers is bound to rocket up, as the days
roll by, proving Jesus’ prediction about his Comforter in John 14:16, to be
absolutely true.
Non-Islamic
sources
Reverend, you may believe it or not, but it is also a fact that if the Muslims
stops writing about Muhammad or never wrote a word about him , he would still live
forever in the writings of non-Muslim scholars especially of the Western World.
To save my time and space, I’ll quote in brief only a few of them.
Let us begin first with the observation of Thomas Carlyle, a renowned
Scottish philosopher, historian and a writer. In his book, Heroes and
Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History (1840), he paid a rich tribute to Muhammad-the
Messenger of God, saying:
“A man of truth and fidelity;
true in what he did, in what he spake and thought….”
“A silent great soul, one of that who cannot but be earnest. He was to
kindle the world, the world’s Maker has
ordered so.”
“A false man found a religion?
Why, a false man cannot build a brick house! ….It will not stand for twelve
centuries, (it is fourteen centuries now) to lodge a hundred and eighty
millions; (1.6 billion today-the second largest on earth) it will fall straight
away……”
“The lies (western slanders) which well-meaning
zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only.”
The History of the Decline and the Fall of Roman Empire (1776) a
great book written by Edward Gibbon, the famous European historian and the
scholar tells us:
“The Creed of Muhammad is free from the suspicious of ambiguity and the Koran
is a glorious Testimony to the unity of God.”
“The Apostle of God submitted to
the menial offices of the family, he kindled the fire, swept the floor, milked
the ewes, and mended with his own hands his shoes and garments.”
Reverend Bosworth Smith, an
American Protestant Episcopal Bishop and the author of Mohammad and
Mohammadanism (London 1874) describes:
He (Muhammad) was a Caesar and
Pope in one; but he was Pope without the Pope’s pretentions, and Caesar without
the legions of Caesar: without a standing army, without a bodyguard, without a
palace, without a fixed revenue; if ever any man had the right to say that he
ruled by the right Divine, it was Mohammad, for he had all the powers without
its instruments and without its supports.
John William Draper, MD,
LL.D, was a professor of chemistry and physiology and also a distinguished
writer of many valuable books on the inconsistencies and the conflict in
history and religion. In his book, A History of the Intellectual Development of
Europe (London 1875), he has said:
“Four years after the
death of Justinian, A.D. 569, was born
in Mecca, in Arabia, the man who, of all men has exercised the greatest
influence upon the human race …To be the religious head of many empires, to
guide the daily life of one-third of the human race , may perhaps justify the
title of a Messenger of God.”
In his valuable book, Histoire de
la Turquie (Paris, 1854), Alphonse de Lamartine, a famous French scholar wrote
in appreciation of Muhammad:
….. If greatness of purpose,
smallness of means and astonishing results are the three criteria of human
genius, who could dare compare any great man in history with Muhammad? The most
famous men created arms, laws and empires only. They founded, if anything at
all, no more than material powers which often crumbled away before their eyes.
This man moved not only armies, legislations, empires, peoples, dynasties, but
millions of men in one-third of the then inhabited world; and more than that,
he moved the altars, the gods, the religions, the ideas, the beliefs and the
souls…. Philosopher, Orator, Apostle, Legislator, Conqueror of Ideas,
Restorer of Rational Beliefs…the founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of
one spiritual empire, that is Muhammad. As regards all standards by which human
greatness may be measured, we may all ask, is there any man greater than he?
We may now check what George
Bernard Shaw, a renowned Irish author, a playwright and also a noble prize
winner, thought of Muhammad and of his religion. In his book, The Genuine
Islam” Vol. 1, No 8 (1936), he said:
“If any religion had the
chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it
could be Islam. I have always held the religion of Muhammad in high estimation
because of its wonderful vitality. It is the only religion which appears to me to
possess that assimilating capacity to the changing phases of existence which
can make it appeal to every age.” …..
“I have studied him-the
wonderful man-and in my opinion far from being anti-Christ, he must be called
the savior of humanity. I believe that if a man like him were to assume the
dictatorship of the modern world, he would succeed in solving its problems in a
way that would bring it the much needed peace and happiness.”
Reverend, I’ll end this part with
the observation of Michael Hart, an American author and astrophysicist. In his book
The 100, A Ranking of the Most
Influential Persons in History (Carol Publishing Group: New York, 1989), he
has reported honestly:
“My choice of Muhammad to lead the list of the world’s most influential
persons may surprise some readers and may be questioned by others, but he was
the only man in history who was supremely successful on both the religious and
secular levels. … Muhammad founded and promulgated one of the world’s
great religions and became an immensely effective political leader. Today, 13
centuries after his death, his influence is still powerful and pervasive. …
It is the unparalleled combination of secular and religious influence which I
feel entitles Muhammad to be considered the most influential single figure in
human history.”
Reverend, the Muslims believe undoubtedly that it is that single figure
in the entire human history that God sent to earth fulfilling Jesus’ prayer and
prediction both. (John 14:16) But, in spite of those crystal clear instances, if
you are still in doubt and like to think, Why
Muhammad, Jesus could mean someone else who has not arrived yet?
The answer can be sought in the meaning of
two Greek words ‘periclytos‘ and paracletos.’
Periclytos or Paracletos?
But before I go into the
meaning or implication of these two Greek words, I should first explain to you
the meaning and significance of two Arabic names Muhammad and Ahmad. I already
mentioned before that Ahmad is another popular name of Muhammad. Both Muhammad
and Ahmad have been originated from the same root word hamdduit, himdath, or
hmd in the language of Hebrew, Aramaic or Arabic and it has been translated
in English as “the praised one, the most laudable, altogether lovely, desire, desirable
or glorified.”
In that sense, if Jesus
meant Muhammad or Ahmad to be his Comforter, he needed to mention his name in
Aramaic as himdath, or himda, to mean someone praiseworthy,
desirable, or glorified which could correspond directly to the meaning of
Muhammad or Ahmad-two well-known names of the Prophet of Islam. Similarly, the
Greek word “Periclytos” also corresponds directly to the meaning of hamdduit, himdath
or hmd. But, it is interesting to note here that the translators of the Bible
from Greek to English, chose the word ‘paracletos’ the meaning of which is comforter,
counselor, advocate, kind, friendly, or ‘one being sought for help’.
Paracletos
is a corrupt reading for Periclytos
According to the observation of the modern and open-minded scholars of
the Bible, the Greek word paracletos
is a corrupt reading for periclytos. They
think the translators of the Bible from Greek to English chose paracletos
over periclytos, either intentionally or unintentionally. But instead of
going into that controversy, we can also accept ‘paracletos’ for Muhammad, because
it also describes him perfectly well. Muhammad was known to his people as a very
kind, considerate and comforting person whom they constantly sought for help, advice
or guidance long before God lauded him in the Quran, saying, We have sent you
not, but as a mercy to the mankind (21:107).
Reverend, if you still
find this explanation inadequate to accept Muhammad as Jesus’ Comforter, and
like to wait for someone else who has not arrived yet, in that case, I would
request you to look for your answer in another prediction that God made in Haggai,
37th book of the Old Testament.
In the verse 7 and 9, God has declared through Prophet Haggai:
And, I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come:
and I will fill this house with glory, saith the Lord of the hosts…..
The glory of this latter house shall
be greater than of the former, saith the Lord of the hosts: and in this place
will I give peace.
Let us identify first who
is the man that God has referred here as the desire of all nations and
then we shall see how other things in the description fit with him like pieces
of puzzles. The desire in the above quoted verses has been translated
from hamdduit in original Hebrew, the meaning of which I already
mentioned before, corresponds directly to the Greek word periclytos or
the Arabic word hmd-the root word of both Muhammad and Ahmad.
this latter house in the verse refers
to Ka’bah-the house of God at Mecca where Muhammad was born from the progeny of
Ishmael-Abraham’s firstborn and the former house refers to the house of
God at Jerusalem. I think in this modern IT World, it is only a matter of
moments to visit both the houses of God and to look for yourself how His house
at Mecca has been glorified not only from His house at Jerusalem, but also from
all the sanctuaries on earth.
Last of all, remains peace and it has been translated into
English from the Hebrew word shalom, the
meaning of which is identical with Arabic root word silm from where salaam
or the name of Islam-the latest, purest and the world-shaking religion of God
was originated and given to Muhammad at Mecca, nearly six hundred years after
Jesus’ ascent to heaven.
Reverend, I have no more
to say except one thing that on the basis of those crystal clear instances from
our Holy Scriptures-the Bible and the Quran both, we believe undoubtedly that Jesus’
Comforter is no one else but his Successor Muhammad –the Prophet of Islam. We have
been claiming so unopposed, for the last fourteen hundred years, since Muhammad
arrived with the Quran testifying of Jesus’ true status and mission and also
clearing his name from all the myths, misconceptions and invented doctrines of
men that his people began cherishing in his name as indispensable parts of
their faith, after he left.
I intend to address those
issues one by one in the rest of my letters with the help of the Gospel that
God revealed to Jesus and also with the help of the Quran that Muhammad- the last
Prophet of God received from Him.
