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Biblical Prophecy on Muhammad (pbuh) # 5
The Shiloh
by Maulana Muhammad Idris Kandhlavi
[ Back ] [ Next ] The Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourself together that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days, gather yourselves together, and hear ye son of Jacob : and hearken unto Israel your father (Genesis 49:1-2)
The sceptre shall not depart from Juadah, nor a law-giver from between his feet ,until Shiloh come: and unto him shall the gathering of the people be (Genesis 49:10)
In the above verses, it has been prophesied, that as long as
Shiloh does not appear prophetic, office and political power would not be cut
off or taken away from Judah. According to Muslim belief , Shiloh is one of the
epithets of Muhammad (pbuh), and not of Jesus, as Christians, contend. According
to this version Shiloh must be outside the fold of Judaism, so that the "sceptre"
should pass from the hands of the Israelites , then it would be a perpetuation
of the regime rather than its discontinuance. The very opening word of Mathew :
The book of the generation of Jesus Christ son of David,
the son of Abraham" (Mathew i:1)
unambiguously establishes the fact that Jesus was a Jew and was of the seed of
David and David was of the progeny of Israel. Therefore, Shiloh, cannot be
identified as Jesus, a Jew. Alternatively ,Shiloh, can only be one
who is not a Judah, and will come by the end of the time as it appears from the
very first phrase :"That I may tell you which shall
befall you in the last days" ,This applies to the Holy prophet
Muhammad (pbuh) who was not of Judah, but of Ishmael and came at the end to end the
Israelites prophethood, at whose advent, whatever remained of the Jewish
kingdom, ended with the fall of the habitations of Banu Nuzair and Khaibar,
according to "and unto him all the gathering of the
people be", it was fulfilled in Muhammad (pbuh) as is said by God,
the Almighty: "Say (O Muhammad) : O mankind :
Lo! I am the messenger of Allah to you all "(Holy Qur'an 7 :158) :
unlike Jesus , who was sent to the Israelites alone :as God the Almighty,
declared :"And will make him a messenger unto the
children of Israel" (Holy Qur'an 3:49). The fulfillment of the
promise became more clear when," ...unto him shall
the gathering of the people be" , became a veritable fact by the
conversion of different races to the fold of Islam, which flocked around him
from different parts of the world. This Jesus (pbuh) could not enjoy , And
according to verse 11, "binding his foal unto the
vine", this forestalls the event that came to pass on the occasion
of the conquest of Khaibar. It is stated in the Madrij-an-Nabuvvat, that
there he (holy prophet ). saw a black ass and had a little talk with him and
asked it its name, which he gave as "Yazid-bin-Shahab', and added :
"God the Almighty raised sixty asses from the progeny of my grandmother, on
whom none but the Prophets rode: I hope that you will ride me. There exists none
but the progeny of my grandmother, save me; and the prophets, there is none save
you". The holy Prophet rode him, and after the demise of the Holy Prophet (pbuh),
he (the ass) died of shock by falling in a well.
In Genesis 49 :11,we read :"He washed his garments in wine and his clothes in the blood of grapes". But it is mistranslation of the Hebrew one: It originally reads :"He washed his garments off wine, and his clothes from the blood of grapes", which seems more appropriate and plausible as the law of the Last Prophet was to forbid the use of wine and to wash the clothes "off" the wine as from other filths. It may be, if we accept the present version, that Muhammad (pbuh) was over-intoxicated by divine love ,then he is much above that , and undoubtedly he is the sire of the predecessors and the successors, there had been hundreds of thousands from among his followers whose love of God, has never surpassed so far.
Again "His eyes shall be red with wine and his teeth white like milk" (Genesis 49:12) refers to the features of the promised prophet: "His teeth would be white and his eyes red". it is narrated Zarqani's Sharh-i-Movahib that when the holy Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) visited Busra-Bozra on a trade trip, he happened to take respite under a tree by the monastery of a Nestorian Monk, Boheira, Seeing the Prophet, the monk inquired from Meisarah, the slave who accompanied him if his (the prophet's) eyes were red. On this Meisarah replied that they were always such, and never recede, i.e., his eye balls had a reddish tinge, On this the monk said that he was the last of the prophets, and wished if he could be alive till the time of his apostleship.
Jalaluddin Siyuti, in his History of Egypt, says that when Hatibm an ambassador of the prophet, appeared before the king Maquqas of Egypt, with a letter from the Prophet, the first thing which the king inquired, while describing the signs of the foretold Last Prophet, if the redness of his eyes ever disappeared. And Hatib testified to it, saying that the redness never receded. Thus, about his attributes there is an Arabic phrase "Ash-ka-lul-Aainain" - One with eyes in which run the red threads. And in other traditions it is "Ad'a'jo" refering to the shade of his pupils, which means one with black eyes. Therefore, the two narratives agree. Mere redness or blackness alone does not enhance the charm as the fusion of both. Both are necessary for handsomeness. And so it has been befittingly prophesied.
(ICRA)