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Muhammad in the Bible David Benjamin KeldaniEdited & Annotated by: Prof. Dawud M. R. Alhanbali & Prof, Dr. Kaseb A. Albadran ( 69 )does not imply that the name Periqlyte itself is the consoler, but the belief and the hope in the promise that he will come “to console the early Christians. The expectation that Jesus would come down again in glory before many of his auditors had “tasted the death” had disappointed them, and concentrated all their hopes in the coming of the Periqlyte.The Quranic revelation that Jesus(pbuh) , the son of Mary, declared unto the people of Israelthat he was “bringing glad tidings of an apostle, who shall come after me and whose name shall be Ahmad (pbuh),” is one of the strongest proofs that Muhammad (pbuh) was truly a Prophet (pbuh) and that the Quran is really a divine revelation. He could never have known that the Periqlyte meant Ahmad (pbuh), unless through inspiration and Divine revelation. The authority of the Quran is decisive and final; for the literalsignification of the Greek name exactly and indisputably corresponds with Ahmad (pbuh) and Muhammad (pbuh).It is marvellous that this unique name, never before given to any other person, was miraculously preserved forthe most Illustrious and Praiseworthy Apostle of Allah! We never come across any Greek bearing the name Periqleitos (or Periqlytos), nor any Arab bearing the name of Ahmad(pbuh). True, there was a famous Athenian called Periqleys which means “illustrious,” etc., but notin the superlative degree.It is quite clear from the description of the Fourth Gospel that Periqlyte is a definite person, a created holy spirit, who would come and dwell in a human body to perform and accomplish the prodigious work assigned to him by God, which no other man, including Moses, Jesus , and any other prophet(pbtuhem) , had ever accomplished.There is no slightest doubt that by “Periqlyte,” Muhammad, i.e. Ahmad (pbuh), is intended. The two names, one in Greek and the other in Arabic, have precisely the same signification, and both mean the “most