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Muhammad in the Bible David Benjamin KeldaniEdited & Annotated by: Prof. Dawud M. R. Alhanbali & Prof, Dr. Kaseb A. Albadran ( 31 )stitution of the “Kingdom of God on earth” it is necessary to cast a glance upon the history of the religion of Islam before it was perfected, completed, and formally established by God Himself under His Apostle Muhammad (pbuh).1. Islam before Muhammad (pbuh) was not the Kingdom of God upon Earth, but only God’s true ReligionThose who believe thatthe true religion of Allah wasrevealed only to Abraham (pbuh) and preserved by the people of Israel alone, must be very ignorantstudents of the Old Testament literature, and must have a very erroneous notion of the nature of that religion. Abraham (pbuh)himself offered tithes to the King and Imam8 of Jerusalem and was blessed by him (Gen. xiv. 18). The father-in-law of Moses(pbuh)was also an Imam and a Prophet of Allah; Job, Balaam, Ad, Hud (pbuh), Loqmân, and many other prophets were not Jews. The various tribes and nationslike the Ishmaelites, Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, and others which descended from the sons of Abraham (pbuh) and Lot, knew God the Almighty though they too, like the Israelites, fell into idolatry and ignorance. However, the light of Islam was never entirely extinguished or substituted by idolatry. Idols or images, which were considered as “sacred” and as household Gods by the Jews, as well as their kindred nationalities, and usually called “Traphim” (Gen. xxxi.) in the Hebrew, were, in my humble opinion of the same nature and character as the images and idols, which the Orthodox and Catholic Christians keep8In Hebrew, these old Imams are called “Kōhen,” and rendered by Christians as “Priest.” A Jewish priest can never be identified with a Christian Sacramentarian priest. (The author).