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Muhammad in the Bible David Benjamin KeldaniEdited & Annotated by: Prof. Dawud M. R. Alhanbali & Prof, Dr. Kaseb A. Albadran ( 58 )TThe “Sibghatu'llah” or the Baptism with the Holy Spirit and with Firehe spiritual baptism is the direct work of God Himself. As a fuller or a laundress washes the linen or any other object with water; asa dyer tints the wool or cotton with a tincture to give it a new hue; and as a Baptist blots out the past sins of the true penitent believer, so does God Almighty baptize, not the body, but the spirit and the soul of him whom He mercifully directs and guides unto the Holy Religion of Islam. This is the “Sibghatu’llah” the Baptism of Allah, which makes a person fit and dignified to become a citizen of the kingdom of Allah and a member of Hisreligion. When the Angel Gabriel communicatedthe Word of Allah for the first time to Muhammad (pbuh), he (Muhammad (pbuh)wasinvested with the gift of prophecy. Hisspirit was purified and magnified with the Holy Spirit to such a degree and extent that when he in histurn pronounced that Word to those whose spirit Allah pleased to guide were also purified, baptized. They, too, thus became holy officers in the new army of the faithful Muslims. This spiritual baptism does not make the Muslims prophets, sinless saints, or miraclemongers. For after the Revelation of the Will and Word of Allah in the Holy Quran there is the end of the prophecy and of revelation. They