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Biblical Prophecy on Muhammad (pbuh) # 22
Like a grain of mustard seed
by Maulana Muhammad Idris Kandhlavi
Another parable put he forth upto them, saying - The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field : which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among the herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof (Mathew 13 : 31-32)
The kingdom of heaven undoubtedly is the kingdom of Islam that began from nothing, a zero as if, from nothing but a word, a point, as if the size of a mere mustard seed and soon assumed a gigantic size that overshadowed the other kingdom of the earth from the East to the West, and from South to the North, and the Qur'an refers to this prophecy as : "Such is their likeness (description) in the Torah and their likeness (description) in the Gospel- like as a seeding that sendeth froth its shoot and strengthen it and riseth firm upon its stalk surprisingly delighting the crop raisers-that He may enrage the disbeliveers with (the sight of )them" (Holy Qur'an xlviii : 29). It may not be strange then due to this similitude, the "Holy Utterance" (Holy Word , Kalima) might have been likened to "the Holy tree"!. Again , "Seest thou not how Allah coineth similitude: a Holy Utterance, as Holy tree, its root sat firm, its branches reaching into heaven. Giving its fruit at every season by permission of its Lord? Allah coineth the similitudes for mankind in order that they may reflect" (Holy Qur'an 14 : 24 -25)
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