i just want to make sure this story is true. When the mother of prophet Muhammd gives birth to him, she had dreamed that to call her son "Muhammad"? notice that the name Muhammad wasn't really popular or known by people.
2007-02-19 08:39:11 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Actually, NO ONE was named Muhammad before him, Just as no one was named John before John 'the Baptist'.
The name means 'One (who is) Praised (exceedingly)'. Now, with that in mind, the verses in the Bible, John 14 where Jesus mentions another Comforter/Counselor, the Greek translation was 'Paracletos', which linguistically doesn't exist (it doesn't mean anything according to the language used at the time).
The actual word used was 'Periklytos' which was a name...
You guessed it... 'One (who is) Praised (exceedingly)'. In which case, what Jesus was saying was, 'I am going to send you Muhammad, who will come in my name'.
2007-02-19 08:47:14 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I am not sure really, but thats a good question.. the word 'hammad' in arabic means being thankful, muhammed is therfore a plural word for thankfullness.
regarding the name being unpopular, well i would put it this way, our prophet PBUH is unique and very special and soo became well known after himm
hope this helps
2007-02-19 16:48:07 · answer #2 · answered by sugar 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
and now there are over 1,000,000,000 muhammads.. fantastic
2007-02-19 16:41:54 · answer #3 · answered by Timmy Tard 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Um... that was the name she chose? I don't know how else to answer..
2007-02-19 16:43:18 · answer #4 · answered by Maverick 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ok
2007-02-19 16:41:50 · answer #5 · answered by Royal Racer Hell=Grave © 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
and?
2007-02-19 23:13:30 · answer #6 · answered by Gardener for God(dmd) 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋