Assalamu Alikum my Muslim brother and sisters. I get into debate with my Christian brothers all the time. And I try use bible to prove prophet Muhammad(PBUH). But there are two verses in bible where I'm stuck I heard Dr. Zakir Niak quote these verse "But very truly I tell you, it is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you." John 16:7 But one thing that really throws me off is why does the verse say "I will send him to you" when it was Allah(swt) that sent Muhammad(PBUH) and the other one Isiah 29:12 "Or if you give the scroll to someone who cannot read, and say, "Read this, please," they will answer, "I don't know how to read." How can this be prophet Muhammad(pbuh). If you can please refute http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUeYLckRu0Y
It is very imported that these question get answered before I can use these two verses to prove prophet Muhammad(PBUH) in Bible.
Assalamu Alikum I'm eagerly waiting for you to shine some light.
Thank You Very Much
But one thing that really throws me off is why does the verse say "I will send him to you" when it was Allah(swt) that sent Muhammad(PBUH)
it is very difficult to know what exactly jesus said, since bible was written 50-100 years after jesus departed from the earth.
the point here is that someone will come after him and Muhammed fits that descprition best.
maybe he really said, God will send him to you, but people after some time wrote I will send him to you.
Isiah 29:12 "Or if you give the scroll to someone who cannot read, and say, "Read this, please," they will answer, "I don't know how to read." How can this be prophet Muhammad(pbuh).
'Ā'ishah said: The first revelation that was granted to the Messenger of Allāh, peace and blessings of Allāh be on him, was the true dream in a state of sleep,4 so that he never dreamed a dream but the truth of it shone forth like the dawn of the morning. Then solitude became dear to him and he used to seclude himself in the cave of Hirā',5 and therein he devoted himself to Divine worship for several nights before he came back to his family and took provisions for this (retirement); then he would return to Khadījah6 and take (more) provisions for a similar (period), until the Truth7 came to him while he was in the cave of Hirā'; so
the angel (Gabriel) came to him and said, Read. He (the Prophet) said, "I said I am not one who can read." And he continued: "Then he (the angel) took hold of me and he pressed me so hard that I could not bear it any more, and then he let me go and said, Read. I said, I am not one who can read. Then he took hold of me and pressed me a second time so hard that I could not bear it any more, then he let me go again and said, Read. I said, "I am not one who can read." (The Prophet) continued: "Then he took hold of me and pressed me hard for a third time, then he let me go and said, 'Read in the name of thy Lord Who created--He created man from a clot--Read and thy Lord is most Honourable.'"8 The Messenger of Allāh, peace and blessings of Allāh be on him, returned with this (message) while his heart trembled and he came to Khadījah, daughter of Khuwailid, and said, "Wrap me up, wrap me up," and she wrapped him up until the awe left him.9 Then he said to Khadījah, while he related to her what had happened: "I fear for myself."10 Khadījah said, Nay, By Allāh, Allāh will never bring thee to disgrace, for thou unitest the ties of relationship and bearest the burden of the weak and earnest for the destitute and honourest the guest and helpest in real distress.
Then Khadījah went with him until she brought him to Waraqah ibn Naufal ibn Asad ibn 'Abd al-'Uzzā, Khadījah's uncle's son, and he was a man who had become a Christian in the time of Ignorance,11 and he used to write the Hebrew script, and he wrote from the Gospel in Hebrew what it pleased Allāh that he should write, and he was a very old man who had turned blind. Khadījah said to him, O uncle's son! Listen to thy brother's son. Waraqah said to him, My brother's son! What hast thou seen? So the Messenger of Allāh, peace and blessings of Allāh be on him, related to him what he had seen. Waraqah said to him, This is the angel Gabriel whom Allāh sent to Moses;12 would that I were a young man at this time-would that I were alive when thy people would expel thee! The Messenger of Allāh, peace and blessings of Allāh be on him, said, Would they expel me? He said, Yes; never has a man appeared with the like of that which thou hast brought but he has been held in enmity; and if thy time finds me (alive) I shall help thee with the fullest help. After that not much time had passed that Waraqah died, and the revelation broke off temporarily. Jābir said, speaking of the temporary break in the revelation, (The Holy Prophet) said in his narrative:
"Whilst I was walking along, I heard a voice from heaven and I raised up my eyes, and lo! the Angel that had appeared to me in Hirā' was sitting on a throne between heaven and earth and I was struck with awe on account of him and returned (home) and said, Wrap me up, wrap me up.
Then Allāh revealed: 'O thou who art clothed! Arise and warn, And thy Lord do magnify, And thy garments do purify, And uncleanness do shun'."14
Then revelation became brisk and came in succession.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/isl/hadith/had04.htm
