Letters ( revised ) | THE NINETEENTH LETTER | 201
(111-259)

Another verse from the Torah:

And He said to Moses: “O Moses, verily I shall send them a prophet like you, from the sons of their brothers [the children of Isma‘il]; I shall place My word in his mouth, and shall punish whoever does not accept the words of the one who will speak in My name.”[324]

 

A third verse from the Torah:

Moses  said:  “O  Lord!  Verily  I  have  found  in  the  Torah  the  best  of communities  that will emerge for the benefit of humanity,  that will enjoin good  and  forbid  wrong,  and  that  will  believe  in  God.  Let  it  be  my community!” God said: “That is the community of Muhammad.”[325]

A REMINDER: In those books, the name of Muhammad is given in Syriac form, such  as  Mushaffah,  Munhamanna,  Himyata,  and  names  meaning  Muhammad  in Hebrew. Otherwise  the name of Muhammad  is explicitly mentioned  only in a few places, and was also altered by the jealous Jews. [326]

A verse from the Psalms of David states:

O David! A prophet will appear after you, named Ahmad Muhammad; he will  be  truthful,  and  he  will  be  a  chief,  and  his  Community  will  be forgiven.[327]

One of the Seven ‘Abdullah’s, ‘Abdullah b. ‘Amr b. al-‘As, who made extensive studies  of the earlier  scriptures,  and  ‘Abdullah  b.  Salam,  who  was the earliest  to accept Islam from among the famous Jewish scholars, and the famous scholar Ka‘b al-Ahbar from among the Children of Israel, all pointed out in the Torah, which was not then corrupted to its present extent, the following verse, which after addressing Moses, then addresses the prophet-yet-to-come:

 

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[324] ‘Ali al-Qari, Sharh al-Shifa’, i, 743; Yusuf Nabhani, Hujjat Allah ‘ala’l-‘Alamin, 86; Halabi, al- Sirat al-Halabiya, i, 347; Deuteronomy, Chapter 18.

[325] ‘Ali al-Qari, Sharh al-Shifa’, i, 746; Yusuf Nabhani, Hujjat Allah ‘ala’l-‘Alamin, 107-18; Isaiah, Chapter 42.

[326] Yusuf Nabhani, Hujjat Allah ‘ala’l-‘Alamin, 112-3; Qastalani, al-Mawahib al-Ladunniya, vi, 189.

[327] Halabi, al-Sirat al-Halabiya, i, 353; Kandahlawi, Hayat al-Sahaba, i, 18; Ibn Kathir, al-Bidaya wa’l-Nihaya, ii, 326; ‘Alê al-Qari, Sharh al-Shifa’, i, 739; Yusuf Nabhani, Hujjat Allah ‘ala’l-‘Alamin, 122.


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