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Biblical Prophecy on Muhammad (pbuh) # 7
War against the Infidels
by Maulana Muhammad Idris Kandhlavi
Praise ye the Lord, Sing unto the Lord a new Song and his praise in the congregation of saints. Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: Let the children of Zion be joyful in their king , Let them praise his name in the dance: Let them sing praises unto him with the timbler and harp, For the Lord taketh pleasure in his people; He will beautify the meek with salvation. Let the saints be joyful in glory: Let them sing aloud upon their beds. Let the high praises of God in their mouth, and a two-edged sword in their hand: to execute vengeance upon the heathen and punishments upon the people; to bind their king with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; to execute upon them the judgment written: This honour have all his saints. Praise ye the Lord" (Psalms 149 :1-9)
In this prophecy the promised prophet has been styled as king and his followers as the righteous and holy, i.e., the promised prophet would be a king, wielding the sword for the glory of the Lord, and avenging the heathens to execute Lord's worth, and his followers and companions will was against infidels.
After the special characteristics of the followers- from first to last have been enumerated, which , apply, in toto to the followers of Muhammad (pbuh), "who glorify God even in their beds" , of such as "remember Allah, standing , reclining .... "(Holy Qur'an 3:91).And it is this people which hymn the glory of the Lord in their prayers, in their wars, in their calls for prayers, in their Id rituals during the Haj pilgrimage to Mecca al along the route, for the entire Haj duration, and for their sojourn in Mina, Muzdalfa and Arafat, and in circumbulation round the Ka'aba declare His greatness and Majesty loudly, unlike the Jews and the Christians who trumpets or coronets or bells giving our meaningless sound in their services. Such glorification of the Lord is exclusive to the followers of Muhammad (pbuh) alone.
The "two-edged" swords of the followers of Islam conquered Syria, Byzantium, Persia, Egypt and other countries, and captured their rulers and nobles and carried them away as prisoners. This prophecy the Jews and the Christians cannot apply to Solomon (pbuh) because he, according to Jewish version, (God forbid) became an apostate and an iconolater, in later life.
This prophecy does not and cannot apply to Jesus, as well because according to the Bible, he himself was killed by the Jews and his disciples imprisoned , so he could not capture kings and nobles of other peoples. Again , according to the prophecy the promised one should be a king, and its obvious that Jesus had never been a king. However, every prophet was a spiritual "King" of his people and Christ could not be an exception to it.
War against the infidels and capturing them, are not objectionable, but a real service to God. Did not Moses, Joshua the son of Nun, and Solomon and his companions, wage wars against the unbelievers, heathens, which the Jews and the Christians uphold as an act of piety?
In short, Jesus , too, is not the object of this prophecy, but the above prophecy or Psalms plainly declares the prophet, who is promise , would be a king, he and his companions will war against the infidel kings , all the haughty and the vainglorious would either be killed or imprisoned, and his companions will accompany him while proclaiming the glory of the Lord ; and all this was fulfilled at the hands of Muhammad (pbuh).
(ICRA)