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Muhammad in the Bible David Benjamin KeldaniEdited & Annotated by: Prof. Dawud M. R. Alhanbali & Prof, Dr. Kaseb A. Albadran ( 41 )lightful, pleasant, and coveted, and the most precious, approved, loved, and esteemed.3. That among all the sons of Adam the nameMuhammad (pbuh)should be given for the first time alone to the son of ‘Abdullah and Āmina11 in the town of Makkah , is a unique miracle in the history ofreligions. There could be no artificial device, attempt, or forgery in this respect. His parents and relatives were pagans and knew nothing of the prophecies in the Hebrew or Christian Scriptures concerning a great Prophet who was promised to come to restore and establish the religion of Islam. Their choice of the name Muhammad (pbuh) or Ahmad (pbuh) could not be explained away as a coincidence or an accidental event. It was surely providential and inspired.I have faithfully reproduced the significations of the Hebrew forms as given by the lexicographers and translators. However,the intrinsical or spiritual sense of “Himdah” and “Mahamod” is “praise and praiseworthy, celebrity and celebrated, glory and glorious.” For among the created beings and things, what can be “more glorious, honourable, illustrious, and praised than that which is most coveted and desired”! It is in this practical sense that the Quran uses the word hamdu from which Ahmad (pbuh) and Muhammad (pbuh) are derivatives, and hamdu is the same word as the Hebrew hemed. The glory of Muhammad (pbuh)surpassesthat of any other creatures, asillustrated by Daniel (vii.), and in the oracle of Allah: “Law lā ka lamā Khalaqna ’lAflāka” — “Were it not for thee, were is not for thee O beloved Muhammad (pbuh), We11 Prohpet Muhamnad’s perants. (Editors).