Mohammad: Prophet of Revolution

serious, made the preservation of the scriptures and teachings of the prophets impossible. Only a prophet’s followers can preserve his teachings after him; but the prophets either had no followers, or so few as to be unable to counter the challenges of their society to the preservation of the Holy Scriptures. The knowledge of God is eternal. He sees the future just as He does the past. He was aware, before the sending of the prophets, that this would be the fate of the human race. So He had decreed that He would remedy this situation at the end of the prophetic era by sending His own special envoy to the world: a prophet whose job would be not only to preach religion, but also to exalt it above all others on earth, he would be granted special succour from God, enabling him to compel his people to bow to the truth. God would keep him on earth until he had rectified the perversions of the society around him. God’s own might would assist the Prophet to vanquish his enemies. In this way the true religion would be established on solid foundations facilitating the preservation of the God. In the Book of the Bible, “for the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of God, as the waters cover the sea.” (Habakkuk, 2:14) Translations and additions have taken the present-day Bible very far from the original. But it still contains multiple references to the coming of the Prophet Mohammad. If one studies the Bible objectively, one will find certain references that cannot be applied to any other than to him. The very purpose of the mission of the Prophet Jesus was to announce to the world, and to the Jewish nation in particular, the coming of the final prophet. The “New Testament” to which he referred was, in truth, Islam, for it marked the replacement of the Jews by the Children of Ishmael as recipients of the word of God. They were the ones to whom the New Testament was to be delivered. The Injil is a prophecy of the New Testament; it is not the New Testament itself. The Prophet Jesus came to the world six hundred years before the last of the Prophets. In one reference to Jesus, the Quran has this to say: And remember the Prophet Jesus, who said to the Children of Israel: “I am sent forth to you by God to confirm the Torah already revealed and to give news of an apostle that will come after me whose name is Ahmad.” (Quran, 61:6)