Prophecy in Isaiah 42 Foretells Prophet Muhammed

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Mohamad Mostafa Nassar

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Isaiah 42 is an interesting prophecy talking about Muhammed peace be upon him. This prophecy was told in the Hadiths, there is a lot of variation between it and what is said in Isaiah, but textual variants are present much in the Bible, and there are many inaccurate quotes of the Old Testament made by writers of the New Testament.

Characters of the Prophet foretold

Let us examine the Biblical prophecy:

Isaiah 42:1 Behold, my servant, whom I uphold; my chosen, in whom my soul delighteth: I have put my Spirit upon him; he will bring forth justice to the Gentiles.

The Chosen Servant of God

The first thing the prophecy talks about is that the one being foretold is a servant of God. This cannot be applied on Jesus (Peace be upon him) according to the Christian view since Christians say that Jesus is God. It may be said that this talks about the human nature of Jesus, but this will not be a logical solution because if God wants to foretell about his coming. 

He would have foretold about divine nature not human nature since all of us are already human beings, so there will be nothing new in the prophecy. Besides, the verse tells that this servant shall be chosen by God, God does not choose Himself, but He chooses a man to be a prophet among human beings.

Prophecy of Prophet Muhammed in Isaiah 42.

Sent to the Gentiles.

Then the prophecy says that he will bring justice to the gentiles, this also is not Jesus (Peace be upon him) because he said:

Matthew 15:24 I was not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

Some might say that he ordered the disciples to preach the gospel to the whole world, but these were the disciples not Jesus himself, and this was confirmed by Albert Barnes in his commentary on Mat 15:24:

โ€œMat15:24 But he answered and said, I am not sent โ€ฆ โ€“ This answer was made to the woman, not to the disciples.

The โ€œlost sheep of the house of Israelโ€ were the Jews. He came first to them. He came as their expected Messiah. He came to preach the gospel himself to the Jews only. Afterward it was preached to the Gentiles, but the ministry of Jesus was confined almost entirely to the Jews.โ€ (Source here)

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Arabia shall Rejoice by His coming

Moving to Isaiah 42:11, we see that prophecy gives 2 special places; Kedar and Sela:

Isaiah 42:11 Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar doth inhabit; let the inhabitants of Sela sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains.

Kedar is the second son of Ishmael (Genesis 25:13), Sela is a mountain in Medina, and it was mentioned in some hadiths. You may say that the Bibleโ€™s dictionary tells that Sela is Petra. However, it happens in the Bible that there is more than a place with the same name as the case of Seir for example:

H8165 say-eerโ€™

Formed like H8163; rough; Seir, a mountain of Idumaea and its aboriginal occupants, also one in Palestine: โ€“ Seir. (Strongโ€™s dictionary)

So, if there is more than one Seir, there could be more than one Sela, especially when we see that nothing happened in Petra with Jesus (Peace be upon him), and even if it was Petra, Petra is in Jordan which is mainly a Muslim country.

It may be also said that this verse meant that all people will be happy with the coming of Jesus. However, Christianity in Arabia was limited in Najran in Yemen, and in the borders with the Roman country which was mostly a political alliance not a real belief.

But as for the overwhelming majority of Arabs, they were not Christians, and Christians were very few. Even before Islam comes, I never heard about a main Christian church in Arabia as that in Antioch, Alexandria, Ephesus or Rome. I never heard of an Arab church father. But when Islam came, all Arabs became Muslims. If the prophecy really meant Christianity, it would have mentioned a major Christian city not the center of Islam.

Isaiah 42 talks about a prophet with a new law

The prophecy continues saying:

Isaiah 42:4 He will not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set justice in the earth; and the isles shall wait for his law.

The prophecy approaches and says that the isles shall wait for his law, Prophet Muhammed peace be upon him came with the final law, while Jesus (Peace be upon him) did not come to abolish the law but to fulfill it, and then Christians claimed that the Mosaic law was for the Jews only, but they are not committed to it, thatโ€™s why they donโ€™t circumcise, eat pork, etc.

At the same time, Jesus said that he just came to fulfill the law, not that he will have a new detailed law as the case of Moses and Muhammed peace be upon him. Besides, the Christian faith is mainly concerned with salvation through faith only not through law and works, so when we say that the isles shall wait for his law, this could not be applied to Jesus.

Fighting the enemies of God

Then the prophecy tells that he will fight Godโ€™s enemy which is certainly what Muhammed peace be upon him did, while Jesus (Peace be upon him) did not fight.

Isaiah 42:13 Jehovah will go forth as a mighty man; he will stir up his zeal like a man of war: he will cry, yea, he will shout aloud; he will do mightily against his enemies.

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Then it tells that those who worship the idols would come into shame.

Isaiah 42:17 They shall be turned back, they shall be utterly put to shame, that trust in graven images, that say unto molten images, Ye are our gods.

Prophet Muhammed peace be upon him was sent to a pagan environment, while Jesus (Peace be upon him) was sent to the Jews, and he was never concerned with worshiping images as the Old Testament was, because his conversation with the Jews was mainly to prove that he came from God and that he is the Messiah.

Morals of the Prophet Foretold

The prophecy talks about the morals of that servant of God saying, you can read the morals section to see who Prophet Muhammed peace be upon him was, see for example these hadiths:

Isaiah 42:2 He will not cry, nor lift up his voice, nor cause it to be heard in the street. 3 A bruised reed will he not break, and a dimly burning wick will he not quench: he will bring forth justice in truth.

Anas Ibn Malik reported:

I served the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) for ten years, and, by Allah, he never said to me any harsh word, and he never said to me about a thing as to why I had done that and as to why I had not done that. (Al Bukhari)

The Prophet peace be upon him never took revenge (over anybody) for his own sake but (he did) only when Allahโ€™s Legal Bindings were outraged in which case, he would take revenge for Allahโ€™s Sake. And he never used bad language. 

He used to say โ€œThe best amongst you are those who have the best manners and character. He never criticized any food (presented to him), but he would eat it if he liked it; otherwise, he would leave it without expressing his dislike.

(Al Bukhari more than one Hadiths)

Mecca existed before Christianity:

They say that the history of Arabia has no evidence for the existence of Makkah before the advent of Christianity.

In fact, there are references to the city and sanctuary of Makkah even in the Old Testament. But in the following lines I will not bask upon references from the Bible but instead share a secular historical evidence to refute the lie.

Diodorus Siculus, a first century B.C. Greek historian while discussing Arabia writes.

โ€œThe people that inhabit these parts are called Bizomenians and live upon wild beasts taken in hunting. Here is a sacred temple in high veneration among all the Arabians.โ€ (The Historical Library of the Diodorus the Sicilian, Translated by G. Booth, Esq., J. Davis Military Chronicle Office, London 1814 vol.1 p.184)

This certainly is a reference to Makkah. Georgi Zaidan (d. 1914 C.E.), a Christian Arab from Beirut writes in his book Al- โ€˜Arab Qabl al-Islam (Arabs before Islam).

โ€œThere is no mention of Makkah or Kaโ€™ba in the books of the Greeks of antiquity except what is found in the book of Diodorus Siculus of the first century before Christ in his discussion about the Nabateans. In that he refers to Makkah and he writes, โ€˜And beyond the land of the Nabateans is the region of Bizomenians. And there is a sacred temple in high veneration among all the Arabs.โ€™โ€

And he does not just stop here, he even explains as to whom Diodorus refers to by using the word, โ€œBizomenians.โ€ He writes (Arabic wording is given in the image above).

โ€œAs to the โ€˜Bizomeniansโ€™; sometimes by it are intended the Jurhamites or other Arabian tribes who were the custodians of Makkah.โ€ (Al-โ€˜Arab Qabl al-Islam, Al-Hilal publishers Cairo, second ed. vol.1 p.244)

So, we find a Christian testifying for and expounding a historical evidence for Makkah from pre-Christian times.

Similarly, another Arab Christian, Jesuit Louis Cheikho (d. 1927 C.E.) in his work titled, โ€˜al-Nasaraniyah wa adaabuha bayn โ€˜Arab al-Jahaliyyahโ€™ (The Christianity and Its Literature amongst the Arabs of Pre-Islamic Times) also refers to the same quotation from Diodorus Siculus and takes it like Zaidan.

(See al-Nasaraniyah wa adaabuha bayn โ€˜Arab al-Jahaliyya, Darul Mashriq, Beirut second ed. 1989 p.14)

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