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Biblical Prophecy on Muhammad (pbuh) # 23
Barnabas Prophecy
The following is an extract from the introduction to the translation of the Qur'an by George Sale a clergyman, based on the Gospel of Barnabas, published in 1854 :but it has been omitted from later editions. The Prophecy that Sale quoted from Barnabas we reproduced it after translating it form an Arabic author who quoted it: **
" O Barnabas (says Jesus), God retributes every sin however small, because of God is never pleased with sin. When my people and my disciples sinned for this word, God was displeased with them and to meet justice and equity he decided to punish them in this world, for their unwholesome belief, so that they may be saved from the chastisement of the hell, and may not suffer there. Although I am free of this, their false belief, but as some people termed me God and a son of God, and it pleased not the Lord. He whished not that the devils many mock at me in the Day of Judgement, so He, out of His money, designed that this mockery should be of Judah and each one conjectured that I was crucified. But this insult and mockery due to Judah., will remain till the coming of Muhammad (pbuh), And when he shall appear he would warn every believe against this error, and the doubt will be eliminated from the minds of men" (Literally translated).
The author of Izhar-ul-Haq, commenting on Christians' reception and attitude towards the Gospel (of Barnabas) has been rejected by Christian Church and doctors as apocryphal, to them we say that such rejection is it is mentioned in the second and third century books, To reject it on the ground that it was written two centuries before the advent of the last prophet Muhammad (pbuh) and foretelling an event so great and so true without revelation*** is an impossibility to men of understanding.
Another Muslim scholar Heider Al Qarshi, in his book Khulasa -e-Seiful -Muslimin , said that an Armenian Clergy, Oskan, translated the " Book of John" in his Armenian language in 1666 A.C., published 1733 A.C., observed that Isaiah. Chapter xlii, "Glorify God, the promised prophet will bear a sign on his back (seal of prophecy), and his name is Ahmed" and this translation is still with Armenians .(Javab-i-Fasih, Vol. i , p97)
Note: To trace the causes of this Christian deception and dishonesty), one cannot do better than to quote a passage or two by Sir. Denison Ross, from his introduction to Sale's translation of the Qur'an:
For centuries the acquaintance which the majority of Europeans possessed of Mohammedanism was based almost entirely on distorted reports of fanatical Christians which led to the dissemination of a multitude of gross calumnies. What was good in Mohammedanism as entirely ignored, and what was not good , in the eyes of it was exaggerated or misinterpreted.
It must not , however, be forgotten that the central doctrine preached by Muhammad: to his contemporaries in Arabia, who worshipped the stars: to the Persians, who acknowledged Ormuz and Ahriman: to the Indians, who worshiped idols : and to the Turks who had no particular worship, was the unity of God, and the simplicity of his creed is probably a more potent factor in the spread of Islam than the sword of the Ghazis.
Islam although seriously affecting the Christian world, brought a spiritual religion to one half of Asia, and it is an amazing circumstance that the Turks, who on several occasions let loose their Central Asian hordes over India, and the Middle East , though irresistible in the onslaught of their arm, were all conquered in their turn by the Faith of Islam, and founded Muhammad dynasties.
The Mongols of the thirteenth century did their best (rather worst Ed.) to wipe out all traces of Islam when they sacked Baghdad, but though the Caliphate was relegated to obscurity in Egypt , the newly-founded Empires quickly became Mohammedan states, until finally it was a Turk who took the title of Caliph, which has been held by the house of Othman ever since.
Thus through all the vicissitudes of thirteen hundred years the Qur'an has remained the sacred book of all the Turks and Persians and of nearly a quarter of the population of India. Surely such a book as this deserves to be widely read when space and time have been almost annihilated by modern inventions, and when public interest embraces the whole world.
The real situation many be described thus:
1. Christianity's own defeat-political, intellectual, spiritual, social and moral- at the hands of Islam
2. The spread of Islam and its acceptance even by it avowed enemies, because of its spiritual superiority and simplicity of its creed.
3. The unalloyed purity of its Book- the Qur'an-and its denunciation of the prevalent Christian creeds and dogmas, a stolen shroud of dead and decaying paganism through with they stepped themselves into an abysmal immorality.
May God guide all of us aright and lead us to accept the truth . Amin
note
** From "Jawabul Fasih" page 97, Book I , is reply to the Patching up by Abdul Masih
*** This Gospel being in existence prior to the advent of the Prophet of Islam, by at least two centuries , therefore , should be taken to be true.
(ICRA)