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Muhammad in the Bible David Benjamin KeldaniEdited & Annotated by: Prof. Dawud M. R. Alhanbali & Prof, Dr. Kaseb A. Albadran ( 48 )TThe Prophet foretold by the Baptist was certainly Muhammad (pbuh)here are two very significant remarks about John the Baptist made by Jesus Christ (pbuth), but recorded in a mysterious way. Thefirstremark aboutthe Baptist isthatin which John is presented to the world as the reincarnate Eliah (Elijah) in the Old Testament. The mystery with which this appellation is enveloped consists in the significant silence of Christ aboutthe identity of the person whom Eliah (not Elias) was expected to officially announce and introduce to the world asthe Last Prophet (pbuh). The language of Jesus(pbuh) in this respect is exceedingly obscure, ambiguous, and mysterious. If John was Eliah, as is expressly and fearlessly declared, why, then, is the person whose precursor was Eliah not expressly and fearlessly mentioned? If Jesus(pbuh)were the “Messenger of the Covenant” and the Dominator [as the Vulgate translates the Hebrew Adon (Mal. iii. 1).], why does he not openly say so? If he courageously declared thatit was not he himself but another Prophet who wasthat “Dominator,” it must, indeed, have been a criminal hand, which erased and effaced the words of Jesus(pbuh) from the original Gospel. At all events, the Gospels are responsible for this ambiguity and obscurity. It cannot but be described as diabolical tampering with the text that has misled billions of Christians for so many centuries. Jesus(pbuh), whatever he believed he represented, ought to