Attention All Muslims How can Muhammad be The Comforter which is the Holy Spirit?

Question

It states on numerous Islamic websites that Muhammad was foretold in the Bible and the Book of John is often referred to:

John 14:16-17

I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Comforter, who will stay with you FOREVER. HE is the SPIRIT who reveals the TRUTH about GOD. The WORLD CANNOT RECEIVE HIM or KNOW HIM. But you know HIM, because HE REMAINS WITH you and is IN you.

John 14: 25-26 Jesus said "I have told you this while I AM STILL with you. THE COMFORTER, THE HOLY SPIRIT, whom the Father will send in MY NAME, will teach you everything and make you remember all that I have told you.

HOW THEN CAN MUHAMMAD BE THE COMFORTER WHICH IS THE HOLY SPIRIT when Muhammad HIMSELF, when confronted by the people who wanted him to perform a miracle, said he is only a man.

Q. 17: 90
They say: "We shall not believe in thee, until thou cause a spring to gush forth for us from the earth,

And he would reply:

Q. 17: 93
Say: "Glory to my Lord! Am I aught but a man

Answer 1

He can't, isn't and is FAR from comforting. YBIC

Answer 2

all prophets (pbut) are just men with a message from God

The Bible like the Quran is up to interpretation.

To keep the Christian view of the trinity you see the comforter as apart of God in the holy spirit. But what you do not see is the comma in your sentence which make the comforter and the holy spirit two different beings.

The miracle of Muhammad (pbuh) was the Quran. It came at a time when the majority of the people could not read or write (including Muhammad pbuh)

Answer 3

Hahhaha! :). I want to get fainted about this..... Believe me, The Last and Only Propercy comes from God, Allah Subahana Huwataala/ Allah S.W.T is a man in Arab ethnic named Muhammad and will introduce Islam as a new and "full recommendation" from the God, Himself, Allah S.W.T. I believe that in the bible has told that there will come a phropercy from The One and Only God and that is the last..... many of my christian friends who read many times The Bible told me when I was young as age below 12 years old. I am a muslim who be friends with many people. They ask the same and I give the answer the same. They believe it they say becouse its written and been told but not much get notice them. Don't get into the pass too much as we all have to updated the new and real truth religion, Islam. I don't force you to enter Islam. I even don't know if you are a true qualified as a Muslim anyway. I love the way you are. I befriend with the other religion anyway. Everybody is unique. I accept it. I love my best friend who name is Terry Tom abd Ho Tsun Kiat. Why must we argue about religion among us if we are still not a true believer of our own religion? Be the best of our own religion 1st then we will have to debate again like thie. Isn't it right?

Answer 4

Witch version of the bible are you using maybe you should go to the Hebrew and the Greek to be closer to the true texts than the Anglo Saxon stuff we have these days. I mean that might be a bit better. Wonder what ever happened to the Gospel of Jesus? But either way the spirit of truth lives in all the prophets. Muhammed never claimed to be God or something equal to him or even a partner with him that is why he said plainly I am only a man. He was telling the people put your trust in God not in man! Don't add to God what God did not add to himself. Like some Christians do, they change their book 1000000 times and made God lesser by insinuating he needed to debase himself to human form to get things done. I mean really isn't God great enough just to say it to be and it would be!!!!! He forgave Noah and Abraham and Moses before Jesus ever arrived what changed did God get lonely or tired??? NEVER!!!!!! He is above our weaknesses!

Answer 5

How is Muhammad a "comforter or recommend" for Christians? The Holy Spirit grew to become into around, yet he grew to become into despatched extremely after Jesus to lead the Christian Church. The Holy Spirit keeps to be with that comparable Church on the instant, protecting her from blunders, speaking actuality and reproving sin in the international.

Answer 6

An 11-page PDF file that contains ample proofs from Aramaic showing that the word 'Muslim' was mentioned by Jesus himself.

http://www.answering-christianity.com/being_like_the_teacher.pdf

And about the specifric verse you are talking about,new testemant which is mainly in greek,the words ghost is not used,there is no specific word for ghost,Some versions like good news version has translated it as spirit of truth..Diferent versions have played different kind of gymnastics with it,the originial hebrew /aroamic (whichever labguage you believe they were written in)gospels does not exist today,the pones available have been translated from greek

Answer 7

Those who asked for miracles woulndt believe it even if they had seen it with their eyes.

God says so numerous times in the Quran.

God gives the example of Moses and how the people around him blamed him by being a magician when he made the staff into a snake.

God gives the example of Jesus who was given miracles by Gods grace, and was looked down upon so much people tried to crucify him.

The holy spirit in nature is just that, and the holy spirit will never come to comfort anyone physically. If christians had any belief the holy spirit was going to come, they would wait for him. Why arent they waiting for him?

Jesus's second coming is obviously, not the holy ghost. As jesus would not refer to himself as 'another'

Answer 8

Muhammed(PBUH*) is the last and final prophet of ALLAH. The Christian Bible makes no mention of Prophet Muhammed(PBUH*). And there is no holy spirit in Islam.

Answer 9

More than fourteen centuries have passed since the prophet of Arabia made claim to being the last and final 'messenger and slave' of Allah. Yet the intensity of discussion amongst scholars from all religions seems to have increased over the years and gained in volocity in the last few years more so than ever before.

Who was this man? What do his followers believe about him? How can others understand their undying devotion to his mission? What do the scholars tell us about this man, Muhammad, peace be upon him, and his 'message' to the world?

For more than fourteen centuries scholars from Judaism, Christianity and Islam have been discussing whether or not the prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, could have indeed, been a true prophet from Almighty God.

Was he the long awaited 'Messiah' the Jews have been waiting for so many centuries?

Was he the one prophesied in the Old Testament Book of Isaiah, calling in the wilderness?

Was he 'That Prophet' mentioned in the New Testament Gospel of John?

We would like to share some of the findings of these scholars from their own sources and invite the reader to consider these evidences.

The most recent claim of revelation coming from the God of Abraham, Moses, David and Jesus, peace be upon them, is the claim of Muhammad, peace be upon him, regarding the Quran. The Quran makes the claim, Muhammad, peace be upon him, is the 'slave and messenger' of Almighty God.

But more importantly pertaining to our subject at hand, the Quran makes the claim that Muhammad, peace be upon him, is mentioned by name in the previous revelations (meaning the Bible). Can this claim be substantiated?

Let us begin by examining the statement in the Quran contained in the 61st chapter (As-Saff [the ranks]), verse 6:

And when Jesus said; "O Children of Israel! I am the apostle of God (sent) to you, confirming the Law (which came) before me, and giving glad tidings of an apostle to come after me, whose name shall be Ahmad."

[Holy Quran 61:6]


Please take notice of the name mentioned, 'Ahmad'. This is one of the most common of several names given to the prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, by his own people.

Now let us turn to the Old Testament (Torah of the Jews) and notice the book called Songs of Solomon, chapter 5, verse 16:

His mouth is very sweet;
he is totally desirable. 33
This is my beloved!
This is my companion, O maidens of Jerusalem!
Check the footnote (33) to discovere what the word was BEFORE it was translated as "totally desirable" and in some versions of the translations we find, "altogether lovely."

(makhmaddim, “desirable”) is the plural form of the noun (makhmad, “desire, desirable thing, precious object”; (see below note #33)

It is asserted that this word "Makhmaddim" is in reality the word "Akhmad" or "AHmad". The reason for the emphasis on the "kh" sound is to prounouce the very hard "H" sound of the two types of "h" in the Semetic languages.

There is a word used in a passage of the New Testament of the Bible, located in the Gospel of John, chapter 14, verse 16, that many Muslim scholars refer to as pointing to the prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him. Let us review it and then observe what non-Muslim scholars comment about it.

14:15 “If you love me, you will obey34 my commandments. 35

14:16 Then36 I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate37 to be with you forever—

14:17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot accept,38 because it does not see him or know him. But you know him, because he resides39 with you and will be40 in you.



Old Testament Song of Solomon 5:16 note 33tn

The term (makhmaddim, “desirable”) is the plural form of the noun dm^j=m^ (makhmad, “desire, desirable thing, precious object”; HALOT 570 s.v. 1; BDB 326 s.v.). Like the plural (“sweetness”) in the preceding parallel line, this use of the plural is probably an example of the plural of intensity: “very desirable.”

34tn Or “will keep.”
35sn Jesus’ statement If you love me, you will obey my commandments provides the transition between the promises of answered prayer which Jesus makes to his disciples in vv. 13-14 and the promise of the Holy Spirit which is introduced in v. 16. Obedience is the proof of genuine love.
36tn Here kaiv (kai) has been translated as “Then” to reflect the implied sequence in the discourse.

37tn Or “Helper” or “Counselor”; Grk “Paraclete,” from the Greek word paravklhto" (paraklhto"). Finding an appropriate English translation for paravklhto" is a very difficult task. No single English word has exactly the same range of meaning as the Greek word. “Comforter,” used by some of the older English versions, appears to be as old as Wycliffe. But today it suggests a quilt or a sympathetic mourner at a funeral. “Counselor” is adequate, but too broad, in contexts like “marriage counselor” or “camp counselor.” “Helper” or “Assistant” could also be used, but could suggest a subordinate rank. “Advocate,” the word chosen for this translation, has more forensic overtones than the Greek word does, although in John 16:5-11 a forensic context is certainly present. Because an “advocate” is someone who “advocates” or supports a position or viewpoint and since this is what the Paraclete will do for the preaching of the disciples, it was selected in spite of the drawbacks.

38tn Or “cannot receive.”
39tn Or “he remains.”
40tc Some early and important witnesses (Ì66* B D* W 1 565 it) have ejstin (estin, “he is”) instead of e[stai (estai, “he will be”) here, while other weighty witnesses ({Ì66c,75vid Í A D1 L Q Y Ë13 33vid Ï as well as several versions and fathers}), read the future tense. When one considers transcriptional evidence, ejstin is the more difficult reading and better explains the rise of the future tense reading, but it must be noted that both Ì66 and D were corrected from the present tense to the future. If ejstin were the original reading, one would expect a few manuscripts to be corrected to read the present when they originally read the future, but that is not the case.

When one considers what the author would have written, the future is on much stronger ground. The immediate context (both in 14:16 and in the chapter as a whole) points to the future, and the theology of the book regards the advent of the Spirit as a decidedly future event (see, e.g., 7:39 and 16:7). The present tense could have arisen from an error of sight on the part of some scribes or more likely from an error of thought as scribes reflected upon the present role of the Spirit. Although a decision is difficult, the future tense is most likely authentic. For further discussion on this textual problem, see James M. Hamilton, Jr., “He Is with You and He Will Be in You” (Ph.D. diss., The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2003), 213-20.

Answer 10

Wow. Preach on.