EIGHT IRREFUTABLE ARGUMENTS Ahmad Deedat 8. Heavenly Abode Moses and Muhammad both lie buried in earth, but according to you, Jesus in heaven. Is this true? The dominee agreed. I said, Therefore Jesus is not like Moses but Muhammad is like Moses. FURTHER PROOFS Ishmael the First Born Since the dominee was helplessly agreeing with every point, I said, Dominee, so far what I have done is to prove only one point out of the whole prophecy - that is proving the phrase Like unto Thee - Like You, Like Moses. The Prophecy is much more than this single phrase which reads as follows: I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren like unto thee.... The emphasis is on the words - From among their brethren. Moses and his people, the Jews, are here addressed as a racial entity, and as such their brethren would undoubtedly be the Arabs. You see, the Bible speaks of Abraham as the Friend of God. Abraham had two wives - Sarah and Hagar. Hagar bore Abraham a son - his firstborn: ....And Abraham [11] called his sons name, which Hagar bare Ishmael. (Bible, Genesis 16:15) And Abraham took Ishmael his son.... (Bible, Genesis 17:23) And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. (Bible, Genesis 17:25) Up to the age of thirteen Ishmael was the only son and seed of Abraham, when the covenant was ratified between God and Abraham. God grants Abraham another son through Sarah, named Isaac, who was very much the junior to his brother Ishmael. Arabs and Jews If Ishmael and Isaac are the sons of the same father Abraham, then they are brothers. And so the children of the one are the brethren of the children of the other.The children of Isaac are the Jews and the Children of Ishmael are the Arabs - so they are brethren to one another. The Bible affirms: And he (Ishmael) shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren. (Bible, Genesis 16:12) And he (Ishmael) died in the presence of all his brethren. (Bible, Genesis 25:18) The children of Isaac are the brethren of the Ishmaelites. In like manner Muhammad is from among the brethren of the Israelites because he was a descendant of Ishmael the son of Abraham. This exactly as the prophecy has it: From among their brethren. (Bible, Deuteronomy 18:18) There the prophecy distinctly mentions that the coming prophet who would be like Moses, must arise not from the children of Israel or from among themselves, but from among their brethren. Muhammad therefore was from among their brethren! Words in the Mouth The prophecy proceeds further: ....And I will put my words into his mouth.... What does it mean when it is said I will put my words in your mouth? You see, when I asked you (the dominee) to open Deuteronomy chapter 18, verse 18, at the beginning, and if I had asked you to read, and if you had read: would I be putting my words into your mouth? The dominee answered, No. But, I continued, if I were to teach you a language like Arabic about which you have no knowledge, and if I asked you to read or repeat after me what I utter i.e: Say: He is Allah the One and Only; Allah, the Eternal Absolute; He begetteth not, nor is He begotten: And there is none like unto Him. (Quran, Al-Ikhlas 112:1-4) ( I read them in Arabic.) Would I not be putting these unheard words of a foreign tongue which you utter, into your mouth? The dominee agreed that it was indeed so. In an identical manner, I said, the words of the Quran, the Revelation vouchsafed by the Almighty God to Muhammad , were revealed. History tells us that Muhammad was forty years of age. He was in a cave some three miles north of the City of Mecca. It was the 27th night of the Muslim month of Ramadan. In the cave the Archangel Gabriel commands him in his mother tongue: iqra which means read! or proclaim! or recite! Muhammad was terrified and in his bewilderment replied that he was not learned! The angel commands him a second time with the same result. For the third time the angel continues. Now Muhammad , grasps, that what was required of him was to repeat! to rehearse! And he repeats the words as they were put into his mouth: Read! In the Name of the Lord and Cherisher, who created: Created man, from a (mere) clot of congealed blood: Read! and the Lord is Most Bountiful: Who teacheth by the pen, Teacheth man that which he knew not. (Quran, Al-Alaq 96:1-5) These are the first five verses which were revealed to Muhammad which now occupy the beginning of the 96th chapter of the Quran.
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