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Biblical Prophecy on Muhammad (pbuh) # 17
Address to Medina
by Maulana Muhammad Idris Kandhlavi
(1)" Arise (regarding Mecca) shine; for thy light is come, (2) and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the Lord shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon the. (3)And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.
As Address to Medina
(4) "Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: all they gather themselves together, they come to thee: thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side. (5)Then thou shalt see, and flow together, and thine heart shall fear , and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be converted unto thee, the forces of the Gentiles shall come unto thee. (6) The multitudes of camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries of Midain and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come, they shall bring gold and incense and they shall shew forth the praises of the Lord. (7)All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together unto thee, the rams of Nebaioth shall minister unto thee: they shall come up with acceptance on mine alter, and I will glorify the house of my glory. (8) Who are these, that fly as a cloud and as the doves of their windows? (9) Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of the Lord thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee. (10)"And the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls, an their kings shall minister unto thee: for in my wrath I smote thee, but in my favour have I had mercy on thee. (11)Therefore thy gates shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day or night: that men may bring unto thee the forces of the Gentiles, and that their kings may be brought. (12) For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee will perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly washed. (13)The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the fir tree, the pine tree, and the box together , to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I will make the place of my feet glorious. (14)The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee; and all they despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet: and they shall call thee : Thy city of the Lord. The Zion of the Holy one of Israel".
(15)"Whereas thou hast been forsaken and hated, so that no man went through thee. I will make thee an eternal excellency, a joy of may generations. (16)Thou shalt also such the milk of the Gentiles, and shall suck the breasts of kings: and thou shalt know what I the Lord am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer. the mighty one of Jacob. (17) For brass I will bring gold, and for iron, I will bring silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron; and I will also make thy officers peace, and thine exactors righteous, (18)Violence shall no more be head in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders: but thou shalt call thy walls salvation, and they gates Praise
(19) "The sun shall be no more thy light by day: neither for brigtness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory. (20)The sun shall no go down: neither shall the moon withdraw itself: for the Lord shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended. (21)The people also shall be righteous: they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified. (22)A little one shall become a thousand , and a small one a strong nation: I the Lord will hasten it in his time " (Isaiah 60 :4-22)
1. The first verse of this chapter is a prophecy to Mecca emerge shining and glorious. "The Light" and "brightness" refer to the light of the Qur'an or the Prophet himself. In the Qur'an both the Holy Prophet and the Holy Qur'an itself, are called the light.
2. The Land of Arabia, as is well-known, was for centuries covered with gloom of polytheism, infidelity and abominations of the darkest hue, which vanished only by the light of the Qur'an and the prophethood of the Last Prophet, Muhammad (pbuh).
3. the kings, the rich and the poor, who accepted Islam, began to tread in the radiance of this light:
4. Gradually the light spread and within thirty years in all the four quarters of the earth, diversed nations assembled around it; that light reached Byzantium, the East and the West, Persia, Kashgar and Khutan, and Sind in India, and the lands were filled with the rays it emitted.
5. Hundreds of thousands of Muslims-the king, the wealthy and the poor, repair to the House of the Lord from all quarters of the world on camels and dromedaries, for the pilgrimage; and the members of camels one finds in Arabia and Mecca, is nowhere to be found.
6. Innumerable crowds began to assemble around Ka'aba to glorify the Lord.
7. the Muslim, rulers from all parts of the world began to send their presents to the Ka'aba and the Meccans, valued at hundreds of thousands.
8. Midian, is the name of Abraham's son by Keturah, his third wife; and Kedar was the name of the second son of Ishmael (Genesis 25). the Midiantes and those surrounding Sheba, all of them are the descendants of Ishmael, who after embracing Islam, all the sundry, visit the Ka'aba on the camels and dromedaries every year, and sing His praise : "Here we are Lord! Lord: Here we are! There is no compeer of thine O Lord! Here we are! " the entire valley sounds and resounds with such words. All the flocks of Kedar and those around Nebaoith1 which mean that the tribes of Sheba (Yemen) the sheep of Kedar (the untamed Qureshites), the rams of Nebaoith (fat people) will hail, singing hymns of glory, and praise in thy presence.
9. Men will flock to Ka'aba like the pigeons to circumambulate it.
10. The present glory of Lebanon shall be transferred to Mecca and the pride and honour, that Syria enjoys as the birth place of the Israelite Prophets, shall be taken away from the wealth of Lebanon and the privilege of Syria as the home of the Israelite prophets, and transferred to Mecca, that would be the birth-place of the last of the prophets and lord of the righteous, and whose companions would be the like of the Israelite prophets.
11. And he who will not "serve" Mecca will be destroyed, as in the well known case of Abraha, the possessor of elephants.
12. The holy sanctuary of the Lord would be decorated and ornamented, and a golden mantle will be put on it every year.
13. This city of Mecca will be named Zion, because like the name of a mountain near Jerusalem. Mecca is also called by the name Zion, as Sheik Abdul Haq of Delhivi mentions it in his madarej-un-Nubuwat Ch IV,see Azala-tul-Auham page 504.
14. And his lieutenants, who followed him, were the peace-personified and the doctors of his law.
15. And the world was so much saturated with truth and justice that no more violence could be heard of anywhere in the land.
16. He left behind a law for his people that would guide them unto all eternity.
17. And the light and glory would be eternal.
18. that would neither decay nor decline.
19. and the companions of that Prophet would be righteous.
20. and from a few they would grow a thousand, and from a humble one a strong nation. Glory and grace be to God"
A Request
The learned readers are requested to persue Chapter Liv and lxv, of Isaiah wherein also, there is a clear mention of the Holy Prophet and his companions (pbut). And for further amplification and appreciation Azula-tul-Autham, Persian edition , pp 494,505 and Izhar-ul-Haq, Arabic, Vol: ii, pp145,147, both by Moulana Ramatullah Kairanvi, which are not reproduced here for fear of the volume becoming an unwieldy one, should also be gone through.
(ICRA)