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May you read my article please? I know it has nothing to do with this
group but it may open your mind about something that you don’t know.

http://www.islamreligion.com/articles/199/

Deuteronomy 18:18 “I (God) 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.”

Many Christians believe this prophecy foretold by Moses to be in
regards to Jesus. Indeed Jesus was foretold in the Old Testament, but
as will be clear, this prophecy does not befit him, but rather is more
deserving of Muhammad, may the mercy and blessings of God be upon
him. Moses foretold the following:

1. The Prophet Will Be Like Moses
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2. The Awaited Prophet will be from the Brethren of the Jews
The verse in discussion is explicit in saying that the prophet will
come amongst the Brethren of the Jews. Abraham had two sons: Ishmael
and Isaac. The Jews are the descendants of Isaac’s son, Jacob. The
Arabs are the children of Ishmael. Thus, the Arabs are the brethren
of the Jewish nation.[3] The Bible affirms:

‘And he (Ishmael) shall dwell in the presence of all his
brethren.’ (Genesis 16:12)

‘And he (Ishmael) died in the presence of all his brethren.’ (Genesis
25:18)

The children of Isaac are the brethren of the Ishmaelites. Likewise,
Muhammad is from among the brethren of the Israelites, because he was
a descendant of Ishmael the son of Abraham.


3. God Will Put His Words in the Mouth of the Awaited Prophet
The Quran says of Muhammad:

“Neither does he speak out of his own desire: that [which he conveys
to you] is but [a divine] inspiration with which he is being
inspired.” (Quran 53:3-4)

This is quite similar to the verse in Geneses 18:15:

“I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto
thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them
all that I shall command him” (Geneses 18:18)

The Prophet Muhammad came with a message to the whole world, and from
them, the Jews. All, including the Jews, must accept his prophethood,
and this is supported by the following words:

“The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of
thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall
hearken.” (Deuteronomy 18:15)


4. A Warning to Rejecters
The prophecy continues:

Deuteronomy 18:19 “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.” (in some translations: “I will be the
Revenger”).

Interestingly, Muslims begin every chapter of the Quran in the name of
God by saying:

Bismillah ir-Rahman ir-Raheem

“‘In the Name of God, the Most-Merciful, the Dispenser of Grace.”

The following is the account of some scholars who believed this
prophecy to fit Muhammad.

The First Witness

Abdul-Ahad Dawud, the former Rev. David Benjamin Keldani, BD, a Roman
Catholic priest of the Uniate-Chaldean sect (read his biography
here). After accepting Islam, he wrote the book, ‘Muhammad in the
Bible.’ He writes about this prophecy:

“If these words do not apply to Muhammad, they still remain
unfulfilled. Jesus himself never claimed to be the prophet alluded
to. Even his disciples were of the same opinion: they looked to the
second coming of Jesus for the fulfillment of the prophecy (Acts 3:
17-24). So far it is undisputed that the first coming of Jesus was
not the advent of the Prophet like unto thee and his second advent can
hardly fulfill the words. Jesus, as is believed by his Church, will
appear as a Judge and not as a law-giver; but the promised one has to
come with a “fiery law” in his right hand.”[4]

The Second Witness

Muhammad Asad was born Leopold Weiss in July 1900 in the city of Lvov
(German Lemberg), now in Poland, then part of the Austrian Empire. He
was the descendant of a long line of rabbis, a line broken by his
father, who became a barrister. Asad himself received a thorough
religious education that would qualify him to keep alive the family’s
rabbinical tradition. He had become proficient in Hebrew at an early
age and was also familiar with Aramaic. He had studied the Old
Testament in the original as well as the text and commentaries of the
Talmud, the Mishna and Gemara, and he had delved into the intricacies
of Biblical exegesis, the Targum.[5]

Commenting on the verse of the Quran:

“and do not overlay the truth with falsehood, and do not knowingly
suppress the truth” (Quran 2:42)

Muhammad Asad writes:

“By ‘overlaying the truth with falsehood’ is meant the corrupting of
the biblical text, of which the Quran frequently accuses the Jews (and
which has since been established by objective textual criticism),
while the ‘suppression of the truth’ refers to their disregard or
deliberately false interpretation of the words of Moses in the
biblical passage, ‘The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a prophet
from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye
shall hearken’ (Deuteronomy 18:15), and the words attributed to God
himself, ‘I will raise them up a prophet from among thy brethren, like
unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth’ (Deuteronomy 18:18).
The ‘brethren’ of the children of Israel are obviously the Arabs, and
particularly the musta’ribah (‘Arabianized’) group among them, which
traces its descent to Ishmael and Abraham: and since it is this group
that the Arabian Prophet’s own tribe, the Quraish, belonged, the above
biblical passages must be taken as referring to his advent.”[6]


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