Islamic Prophecy was twisted by Caliphs after Muhammad’s Death
He used the Canonized Old and New Testaments to write It
He Finished It Some 200 years after N.T. Canonization
It should be no surprise his Prophecies are Similar
My years among Muslims has been Invaluable
In understanding the history of the Qur’an
And in Reading Its English Translations.
February 4, 2013
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
it is possible to see a twisting of Bible prophecy in the following quotes from the Qur’an:
The Moslems have several specific prophecies that pit them against Jews and Christians till the bitter, exhausted end. The return of the Jews to Israel, the current situation in the Mideast, and the probable future was predicted quite explicitly in the Quran:
“And We said thereafter to the Children of Israel, dwell securely in the land, But when the second of the warnings come to pass We shall bring you a crowd, gathered out of various nations.” [Quran 17:104]
“And they shall incur the wrath of Allah, and humiliation will be made to cling to them. This is because they disbelieved in the message of Allah, and killed the Prophets of Allah. This is because they disobeyed and exceeded the limits.” Quran 3:111]
“And with those who say: We are Christians, We made a covenant, but they neglected a portion of that whereof they were reminded. So we allowed to stir up enmity and hatred among them to the Day of resurrection. And Allah will soon let them know the consequences of what they do.” [Quran 5:14]
“There is not a town but We will destroy it before the Day of Resurrection or chastise it with a severe chastisement.” [Quran 17: 58]
“On that day We shall let some of them surge against the others, and the trumpet will be blown. Then We shall gather them all together. And We shall bring forth hell, exposed to view, on that day before the misbelievers.” [Quran 18: 99, 100]
The majority of Islamic prophecies are not based directly on what Muhammad wrote in the Quran, but on what are called “hadith” by Muslims,
THE ISLAMIC “HADITH”
A hadith is a saying of Muhammad or a report about something he did. Over time, during the first few centuries of Islam, it became obvious that many so-called hadith were in fact spurious sayings that had been fabricated for various motives, at best to encourage believers to act righteously and at worse to corrupt believers’ understanding of Islam and to lead them astray. Since Islamic legal scholars were utilizing hadith as an adjunct to the Qur’an in their development of the Islamic legal system, it became critically important to have reliable collections of hadith. While the early collections of hadith often contained hadith that were of questionable origin, gradually collections of authenticated hadith called sahih (lit. true, correct) were compiled. Such collections were made possible by the development of the science of hadith criticism, a science at the basis of which was a critical analysis of the chain of (oral) transmission (isnad) of the hadith going all the way back to Muhammad. The two most highly respected collections of hadith are the authenticated collections the Sahih Bukhari and Sahih Muslim. (Sahih literally means “correct, true, valid, or sound.”) In addition to these, four other collections came to be well-respected, although not to the degree of Bukhari and Muslim’s sahih collections. These four other collections are the Sunan of Tirmidhi, Nasa’i, Ibn Majah, and Abu Da’ud. Together these four and the two sahih collections are called the “six books” (al-kutub al-sitta). Two other important collections, in particular, are the Muwatta of Ibn Malik, the founder of the Maliki school of law, and the Musnad of Ahmad ibn Hanbal, the founder of the Hanbali school of law.
The following is a list of Hadīth collections, which are sources that contain the sayings, acts or tacit approvals, validly or invalidly, ascribed to the Islamic Prophet Muhammad.
SUNNI COLLECTIONS
Al-Sihah al-Sittah, the Six books.
al-Bukhari (died 870) included 7275 hadiths
Muslim b. al-Hajjaj (died 875) included 9200.
Abu Da’ud (died 888)
al-Tirmidhi (died 892)
al-Nasa’i (died 915)
Ibn Maja (died 886).
Muwatta of Imam Malik
Musnad Ahmad Ibn Hanbal
Sunan Al-Bayhaqi
Sunan Al-Darimi
An-Nawawi’s Forty Hadith
SHIA COLLECTIONS
Al-Kutub Al-Arb’ah, the Four books
Kitab al-Kafi, of Kulainy
Man la yahduruhu al-Faqih of Shaikh Saduq
Tahdhib al-Ahkam of Shaikh Tusi
al-Istibsar of Shaikh Tusi
Begin Excerpts from Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs/Daily Alert
February 1, 2013
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
Excerpt 1 – Gatestone Institute
Jerusalem, Capital of Israel: An Islamic Prophecy
Ali Salim
It is a violation of the will of Allah to sidestep calls for recognizing Jerusalem as the official capital of the Children of Israel, and moving the American embassy there. It ignores the prophecy of the Qur’an, which predicts the return of the Children of Israel to their land from the four corners of the earth, as it is written in Al-Isra, Verse 104: “And we said to the Children of Israel after him, ‘Dwell in the land, then, when the final and the last promise comes near, we shall bring you altogether as a mixed crowd.'”
In the Qur’an the Children of Israel are mentioned countless times and they are mentioned as the Chosen People, as it is written in Al-Baqara, Verse 47, “O Children of Israel, remember My favor that I have bestowed upon you and that I preferred you over the worlds.” They are mentioned as inheritors of the Holy Land which, according to all the Islamic commentators, is Jerusalem and the country around it.
Nearly a century ago, when the Turks went back home, the Children of Israel came from all the corners of the earth, as it is written in Al-A’raf, Verse 137, “And we caused the people who had been oppressed to inherit the eastern regions of the land and western ones, which We had blessed. And the good word of your Lord was fulfilled for the Children of Israel because of what they had patiently endured.” (Gatestone institute)
Excerpt 2 – Ynet News
Turk Activist: Hatred of Muslim World Jews Stems from Misinterpretation of Koran
Sinem Tezyapar
It is true that there is a widespread hatred of Jews in the Muslim world. However this does not stem from the Koran, but from various interpretations that do not reflect the spirit of Islam. The way to put things right is for people of reason and good conscience to educate people against terror, radicalism and fundamentalism. (Ynet News)
Because Muhammad had accesses to the completed prophecies of the both the Old and New Testaments, he twisted them into a reversal of the good, the bad, and the ugly.
This Jihad (Holy War) attack by Islamic nations against Israel is the third in a series of attacks described in the Koran of Islam. In Arabic, the name Koran means “The Recital.” Allah speaks in the first person plural, which often changes to the first person singular or the third person singular in the course of the same sentence.
QUOTE FROM THE KORAN, THE NIGHT JOURNEY 17:4-8
The Night Journey 17:4 – In the Scriptures We solemnly declared to the Israelites: ‘Twice you shall commit evil in the land. You shall become great transgressors.’
“Scriptures” refer to those found in the Old Testament of our present day Bible.
Mohammed claims that Allah is the God of all men, including Israel, and that he gave them what we call the Old Testament. Mohammed calls the Jews “the people of The Book.” Also please bear in mind that Mohammed was born about AD 570, almost 500 years after John finished Revelation, the last book of the New Testament.
“Twice” refers to the sins of Israel in the Old Testament that led God to cause them to be led into captivity on two occasions. The first being the 70 year captivity into which the Babylonians carried them in about 587 BC.
Jeremiah 25:8-11 – [8] Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts; Because ye have not heard my words, [9] Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the Lord, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations. [10] Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the candle. [11] And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
The second occasion was the carrying away by Romans which began in AD 70 by Titus, and was completed by Hadrian some 65 years later. This led to the worldwide dispersal of the Jews.
Luke 21:24 – And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
Please remember that both these attacks had already occurred BEFORE Mohammed wrote the Koran. But since he is claiming that his God Allah wrote “The Scriptures” we call “The Bible,” he is interpreting our Bible to say that Allah and Islam warned the Israelites in advance of the these two attacks before they occurred.
The Night Journey 17:5 – And when the prophecy of your first transgression came to be fulfilled, we sent against you a formidable army which ravaged your land and carried out the punishment with which you had been threatened.
This was, of course, the Babylonian invasion and the 70 years of captivity.
The Night Journey 17:6 – Then we granted you victory over them and multiplied your riches and descendants, so that once again you became a numerous people. We (Allah and Islam) said: ‘If you do good, it shall be to your own advantage; but if you do evil, you shall sin against your own souls.’
Mohammed here claims that Allah gave them victory by causing the conquest of the Babylonians by the Medes and the Persians, and then raising up Cyrus, King of Persia, to allow them to return to their homeland.
The Night Journey 17:7 – And when the prophecy of your second transgression came to be finished, We (Allah and Islam) sent another army to afflict you and to enter the Temple as the former entered it before, utterly destroying all that they laid their hands on.
Mohammed here claims that because they did not heed Allah’s second warning, he sent the Roman army against them, and they, like the Babylonians had destroyed the Temple of Solomon in about 587 BC, destroyed the Temple of Herod in AD 70. Mohammed then makes the prediction of a final punishment if they trespass against Allah for a third time. This attack will result in their being scourged and cast into Hell, the prison house for all unbelievers. I believe Mohammed extracted this prophecy from both the Old and New Testaments.
The Night Journey 18:8 – We (Allah and Islam) said: ‘Allah may yet be merciful to you. If you again transgress, you shall again be scourged. We have made Hell a prison-house for unbelievers.’
I suspect that Mohammed took the writings of the “prophets of Israel” that were “spoken in old time” of the final attack against Israel, and them predicted it as being a prophecy from Allah.
Ezekiel 38:14-17 – Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord God; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it? [15] And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou, and many people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army: [16] And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes. [17] Thus saith the Lord God; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee against them?
I believe this will be a scourging by the armies of Islam as they sweep south from Dan to Beersheva, and Israel will be exiled in the Negev Wilderness for some three and one-half years.
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