Mohammad, the promise of Torah - II

We, the Muslims, based on Qur'an, believe that Prophethood was bestowed upon both Ismael -the Prophet Ibrahim's first son- and also Is_haaq (Isaac) -the Prophet Ibrahim's son who was born years after Ismael-; but obviously the Prophet Ibrahim (PBUT) himself prayed that the Ever-Promised Prophet Mohammad (PBUH&HP) to be born from the Prophet Ismael whom he built Ka'bah with.

Let us, as a token, present a sample of many mistakes existing in the current Torah which prove that in the course of distortions throughout history, they have made mistakes and forgotten to fix some things; as we mentioned Allah never allows His Light to be put out; according to this current Torah, Ismael was Ibrahim's first son, and Is_haaq, his son who was born many years later:

Old Testament, book of Genesis, Chapter 17

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"And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.

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This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised.

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And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his house, and all that were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house;

and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame day, as God had said unto him.

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And Abraham was ninety years old and nine, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

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And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin."

As we see the above statements indicate that the circumcising covenant was made with Ibrahim when he was 90 years old, and at that time Ismael was 13. Now let us quote another statement from this current Torah in which it is said that Is_haaq (Isaac) was born when Ibrahim was one hundred years old:

Book of Genesis, Chapter 21

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"And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him."

Now let us look at the story of Ibrahim taking Ismael as an offering as commanded by Allah, which is mentioned in Qur'an:

And when he (Ismael) grew, he strived with him (Ibrahim); (Ibrahim) said: O' my son! surely I have seen in the dream that I am sacrificing you, so see what do you see (think)? (Ismael) said: O' my father! Do as you are commanded, you shall, Allah-Willing, find me of the patient ones.

And We ransomed him (Ismael) with a Great Sacrifice.

(Qur'an, Surah Saafaat, verses 102 & 105)

As the story is narrated in Qur'an, Ibrahim was commanded by Allah to present Ismael as an offering, and Ibrahim and Ismael both submitted to the Will of Allah, but Allah sent a sheep for sacrifice, and in this manner the level of love, obedience, trust and submission -the great Divine Status- of Ibrahim and Ismael (PBUT) became known to every one until eternity (we must also mention that the dreams of Chosen ones (PBUT) are the same as reality, unlike most dreams of regular people, i.e. a regular person should not trust his dreams.). In the current Torah, it says that Is_haaq was the offered one:

Book of Genesis, Chapter 22

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"And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am.

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And he said, Take now thy son, thine ONLY son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon

one of the mountains which I will tell thee of."

Let us look at statement 2 of chapter 22 carefully; it says that God told Ibrahim to take his ONLY son for the offering! But according to this same so called Torah, Isaac was not Ibrahim's first born; I.e. Isaac could not have been Ibrahim's ONLY son at that time, because Ismael was already born years before Is_haaq! So it is obvious that in the original Torah, Ismael as Ibrahim's first born and his ONLY son at the time, was to be taken for the Offering, as indicated in Qur'an.

One of the things which they have tried to do in this distorted Torah, is to place Is_haaq in many statements where Ismael were originally indicated, so that they may make it look as if the Covenant of the Promised Prophet of the Last Days was made with Is_haaq, and not with Ismael, and therefore the Promised Messenger would be of descendants of Isaac, and not of Ishmael; as an old saying indicates, liars have bad memories, but of course the point is that Allah never lets His Light to be put out! This same issue is what the Prophet Jesus (PBUH) has talked about in the gospel of Barnabas, chapter 43:

"…James answered: 'O master, tell us in whom this promise as made; for the Jews say "in Isaac," and the Ishmaelites say 'in Ishmael." '

Jesus answered: 'David, whose son was he, and of what lineage?'

James answered: 'Of Isaac; for Isaac was father of Jacob, and Jacob was father of Judah, of whose lineage is David.'

Then said Jesus: 'And the messenger of God when he shall come, of what lineage will he be?'

The disciples answered: 'Of David.'

Whereupon Jesus said: 'Ye deceive yourselves; for David in spirit calleth him lord, saying thus: "God said to my lord, sit thou on my right hand until I make thine enemies thy footstool. God shall send forth thy rod which shall have lordship in the midst of thine enemies." If the messenger of God whom ye call Messiah was son of David, how should David call him lord? Believe me, for verily I say to you, that the promise was made in Ishmael, not in Isaac.'”

In addition, the Prophet Jesus (PBUH) has mentioned the same mistake of the distorted Torah, regarding Isaac not being Ibrahim's first born:

Chapter 44

"Thereupon said the disciples: 'O master, it is thus written in the book of Moses, that in Isaac was the promise made.' Jesus answered, with a groan: 'It is so written, but Moses wrote it not, nor Joshua, but rather our rabbis, who fear not God. Verily I say unto you, that if ye consider the words of the angel Gabriel, ye shall discover the malice of our scribes and doctors. For the angel said: "Abraham, all the world shall know how God loveth thee; but how shall the world know the love that thou bearest to God? Assuredly it is necessary that thou do something for love of God." Abraham answered: "Behold the servant of God, ready to do all that which God shall will." 'Then spoke God, saying to Abraham: "Take thy son, thy firstborn Ishmael, and come up the mountain to sacrifice him." How is Isaac firstborn, if when Isaac was born Ishmael was seven years old?' Then said the disciples: 'Clear is the deception of our doctors: Therefore tell us thou the truth, because we know that thou art sent from God.' Then answered Jesus: 'Verily I say unto you, that Satan ever seeketh to annul the laws of God; and therefore he with his followers, hypocrites and evil-doers, the former with false doctrine, the latter with lewd living, to-day have contaminated almost all things, so that scarcely is the truth found. Woe to the hypocrites! for the praises of this world shall turn for them into insults and torments in hell. 'I therefore say unto you that the messenger of God is a splendour that shall give gladness to nearly all that God hath made, for he is adorned with the spirit of understanding and of counsel, the spirit of wisdom and might, the spirit of fear and love, the spirit of prudence and temperance, he is adorned with the spirit of charity and mercy, the spirit of justice and piety, the spirit of gentleness and patience, which he hath received from God three times more than he hath given to all his creatures. O blessed time, when he shall come to the world! Believe me that I have seen him and have done him reverence, even as every prophet hath seen him: seeing that of his spirit God giveth to them prophecy. And when I saw him my soul was filled with consolation, saying: "O Mohammed, God be with thee, and may he make me worthy to untie thy shoe latchet, for obtaining this I shall be a great prophet and holy one of God."' And having said this, Jesus rendered his thanks to God."

Messiah is a word mentioned in the English translation of the Bible; Messiah, according to English encyclopedias basically means Deliverer and Savior; those who call themselves Christians have mostly translated it to Christ; those who call themselves Jews, are still anticipating the Messiah; and there are many solid proofs that in addition to the prophecies in regard to the Prophet Jesus (PBUH) which seem to exist in the current Old Testament, the Messiah -meaning the Deliverer and the Savior- mentioned in the current Old Testament, in many cases refer to the Prophet Mohammad and his final Successor -Imam Mahdi- (PBUT).

Khirbet Qumran is an archaeological site in W Jordan, near the NW coast of the Dead Sea, where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found in 1947; these scrolls are a collection of old scriptures and gospels, which are believed by many to be less distorted gospels perhaps written by the original disciples or their first level students, these scriptures along with other old scriptures which are not included -for many reasons such as political and …- in the current Bible, are known as Apocrypha; some of the so called Apocrypha documents used to be included in the Old and New Testaments, specially in the Catholic versions, but they were omitted later! Those who call themselves Jews and Christians have tried very hard to conceal any facts which may reveal the TRUTH so that their worldly positions may not be damaged, but at the end the TRUTH shall Appear; let us look at two comments from the western scholars who have studied the aforementioned Scrolls (we are not confirming the absolute authenticity of the Scrolls, but it is interesting to read what they have found):

In The Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered, by Robert Eisenman and Michael Wise, we read that the early scrolls spoke of two messiahs, but that later on, the communities of the Jews began to combine them into one messiah As we have suggested, contrary to the well-known 'two-Messiah' theory of early Qumran scholarship, these references to the 'Messiah of Aaron and Israel' in the Damascus Document are singular not plural... and one possible explanation for it is that it is evoking a Messiah with both 'priestly' and 'kingly' implications, like the somewhat similar recitations of Hebrews (The Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered, Robert Eisenman and Michael Wise, p. 162).

According to the dominant view in the sectarian texts from Qumran, two messiahs were to lead the congregation in the End of Days, one 'priestly', and the other 'lay' (Reclaiming the Dead Sea Scrolls, Lawrence H. Schiffman, pp. 321-322).

Jesus was best known for his 'priestly' works. He never led an army, and he never established a kingdom or a government. Quite the opposite, he called to peace and submissiveness and to leave the rule of the land to others (gospel of Matthew 22:21, the current New Testament). He told his followers that he yet had many things to teach them but they could not bear them yet and that another would be coming after him who would teach them the complete TRUTH (gospel of John 16:7-14). And when Mohammad came, he had a 'kingly' manifestation, i.e. he ruled over people, and at the end Allah's Kingdom will be established all over the world at the hand of the last Successor of Mohammad (PBUT). Even this current New Testament's gospels -in spite all their hard works for concealment of the TRUTH- have indications of two Promised Prophets; and this is only one such indication.

Any how, interestingly after such prophesies in the scriptures, historical evidence shows, some sects of the Bani-Israel migrated to Arabia and started living there, for the promised messiah. Many of such devoted Believers converted to Islam when Muhammad (PBUH&HP) came; Qur'an clarifies repeatedly in three verses in Surahs Tobah:33, Saf:9 and Fath:28 that: He (Allah) is who has sent His Rasool (Messenger/Apostle) with Guidance and the TRUE RELIGION, so that He shall cause it (THE TRUE RELIGION) to prevail over all religions,… . The final result of the coming of the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH&HP), as Promised by Qur'an shall be the Appearance of the TRUE RELIGION, the Ever-Anticipated TRUE ISLAM all over the world, at the hand of Mohammad's final Divinely chosen Successor who has the same name as the Prophet, known with his title Mahdi, the Promised Savior (PBUT), and this will happen with the help of the Prophet Jesus (PBUH); Jesus shall descend after Mahdi's (PBUT) Appearance… . (We also invite you to read the article: "Second coming of Jesus (PBUH)" in this site.)

Many distortions have always occurred through translating, editing and explaining; this has been happening over and over and we will try to present samples in this site; but this makes all of us even more serious in firstly getting our beliefs only through the Allah-chosen Successors of the Prophet (PBUT), and secondly learning Arabic so that we will be able to study Qur'an and Hadith in Arabic an not in translated forms. Another point which we wish to clarify is that the reason why we say those who call themselves Jews and Christians, rather than Jews and Christians, is because these titles and names were chosen after the departure of their Prophets (PBUT) and they started to call themselves Jews and Christians, while the Religion of all Divine Prophets were the same and it was Islam; there has always been one God and one Religion, with different procedural rules and Shari'at; the distortions have created different religions; this is why Qur'an repeatedly declares that the only accepted Religion is Islam.

It is also necessary to mention that we do not believe that the gospel of Barnabas is the undistorted words of Jesus (PBUH) at all; but the fact of matter is that as we have mentioned many gospels have been written throughout history, and the Romans chose the four gospels which are in the current New Testament -that actually were written under the influence of Paul and ancient myths and …, and not based on the teachings of Jesus (PBUH)-, in the fourth century A.D. and apparently burned all other gospels; but now those who call themselves Jews and Christians, claim that many of the Apocryphal gospels were later re-found, and they also confirm that many other books used to be in the Old and New Testaments, and they were taken out later, as we mentioned earlier; when it comes to the gospel of Barnabas they try to deny it completely because some things in this gospel verify Muslims' beliefs, while it must be said that many things in the gospel of Barnabas do not agree with the beliefs of Muslims; and they have even suggested that this gospel was written by Muslims, while they have not presented any other gospel of Barnabas as part of the many Apocryphal gospels, in spite of the fact that their own documents prove that the gospel of Barnabas was in wide use in the first centuries after Jesus! Any how, we can consider the gospel of Barnabas as a less distorted document, and just because they do not like it and deny it without proof and reason, we do not disregard it, while we have many reasons which prove that the Old and New Testaments are distorted and they continue to insist otherwise! Let us be intelligent and steadfast; we also invite you to read the article: "How did the gospel of Barnabas survive?" in this site.

Let us take one glorious moment and thank Allah for Qur'an which has always been only one; we also cordially invite you to read the article: "Ghadir, heart of Qur'an", in this site.

To be continued …