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Biblical Prophecy on Muhammad (pbuh) # 4
Choosing the Foolish Nation
by Maulana Muhammad Idris Kandhlavi
[ Back ] [ Next ] They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God ; that have provoked me to anger with their vanities; And I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people ; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation (Deuteronomy 32 :21)
In this verse the word "Foolish" refers to the Arab people prior to the time of the last prophet, who were steeped into ignorance and had gone astray. Short of all knowledge, they knew nothing but iconolatry of the crudest type and for this ignorance of theirs the Jews and the Christians looked down upon them with a supercilious contempt.
But when the Jews and Christians fell into henotheism , and polytheism, by ignorance the teachings of the Torah and the Gospel and according to the Qur'an 9:30 :"And the Jews say :Uzair (Ezra) is the son of Allah, and the Christians say :The Messiah is the son of Allah"; the self respecting God according to promise, raised a prophet from among the very "foolish" and the unlettered people, who honoured Islam by punishing the Jews and the Christians at their hands, bestowing Egypt and Syria to them: as God has revealed :
"Allah that is in the heaven and all that is in the earth glorifieth Allah, the sovereign Lord, the Holy one, the Mighty, the Wise, He it is who hath sent among the unlettered ones a messenger of their own, to recite unto them His revelations and to make them grow, and to teach them the Scripture and Wisdom though heretofore they were indeed in error manifest (Holy Qur'an 62 : 1-2 )
Here the word "unlettered" refers to the illiterate Arabs. The people of Esias and Jesus were neither unlettered nor despised, who could put the Israelites to shame. This prophecy , therefore, does not refer to any other but the Arabs. To call Greeks, ignorant as does Paul in his "Romans", is outrageous as they superseded all nations of the world at the time in Arts and Science. They produced men like Socrates, Plato, Pythagoras, Aristotle, Archemedes, Euclides, etc.. and all of them existed long before Christ., who were well versed in every branch of knowledge and in the Torah, and from whom Paul learned his lessons in heathenism, which he engrafted in the teachings of Christ and over-laid the personality of Jesus with them. So , Paul is not justified in calling them as "ignorant" , Hence the prophecy cannot be applied to Esias of Jesus
(ICRA)