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Muhammad in the Bible David Benjamin KeldaniEdited & Annotated by: Prof. Dawud M. R. Alhanbali & Prof, Dr. Kaseb A. Albadran ( 28 )In the Book of Deuteronomy (xiii. 1-5, xviii. 20-22), God Almighty givessome instructions concerning the false prophets who may prophesy in the name of the Lord and in such an insidious way that they could mislead His people. Further, he tells usthat the best way to find out the impostor’s perfidy was to anticipate the fulfilment of his predictions, and then to put him to death when his fraud was divulged. However, as is well known, the ignorant cannot well distinguish between the genuine prophet and the impostor, just as much as they today are unable to definitely discover which of the two, a Roman Catholic priest or a Calvinist minister is genuine follower of Jesus Christ (pbuh)! A false prophet would also foretell events, work wonders, and do other religious things similar —at least in appearance— to those performed by a true one. The competition between the prophet Moses(pbuh) and the magicians of Egypt is an apt illustration of this statement. Thus, it is Jeremiah who gives us the best way of testing the veracity, the genuineness, of a prophet, and that way is the sign of Islam. Please read the whole chapter xxviii of Jeremiah, and then ponder and reflect on the ninth verse:“The prophet which foretells the Islam (Shālōm), at the coming of the word of the Prophet, that prophet will be recognized to have been sent by God in truth” (Jer. xxviii. 9).